Archive for April, 2008

Building a Collaborative Workplace

Building a Collaborative Workplace, by Shawn Callahan, Mark Schenk and Nancy White is a useful downloadable guide exploring the meaning of collaboration; and why organisations and individuals should build and implement their collaboration capability.

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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 | Posted in: Participation, Side Notes, Nptech.
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Common Craft: Podcasting in Plain English

Podcasting in Plain English by Common Craft

Common Craft have created another wonderful bite-size video in plain english, adding to their great collection of easy to understand and fun introductions into social media tools. This latest one on Podcasting, shows how versatile and portable podcasts can really be. See more of their videos in Plain English.

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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 | Posted in: On the web, Social Media, Nptech.
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Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom

AbilityNet are holding an Accessibility 2.0 event later this week. Accessibility 2.0 will be a practical conference focussing on web accessibility in a Web 2.0 world, and looking at practical solutions to making the modern web a more inclusive and accessible place for all.

On the event webpage you can listen to a podcast or download a transcript with conference host Robin Christopherson, Head of Accessibility Services with AbilityNet discussing Web 2.0. He talks about some of the barriers encountered from a users perpective with some modern social networking websites and also the hopes with innovation the future.
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“Being blind I’m honestly a bit worried what Web 2.0 will mean for me and my access to websites and web apps in the coming months and years. If accessibility isn’t foremost in everyone’s minds I’m afraid I’ll actually have less choice in what I can access, and that I’ll find surfing more difficult in general. Faced with inaccessible sites, those sites that do it well will have my custom for sure.”

Find out more about the event and to listen to the podcast at Accessibility 2.0.

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Posted on April 20th, 2008 | Posted in: Participation, Accessibility, Web, Social Media, Nptech.
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CSS Naked Day

Visitors to my blog will notice something missing today. (on the 9th April only) It’s the third annual CSS Naked Day and over 1500 websites and blogs across the globe will have taken part.

The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your

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Posted on April 9th, 2008 | Posted in: Participation, Accessibility, On the web, Web design.
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Building Community Around Your Blog

Chris Brogan, who writes about social media and technology to build digital relationships, shared his birthday yesterday with a free PDF download of Building Community Around Your Blog. Lots of useful tips, take a look at his post Free Tips for Your Blog.

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Posted on April 9th, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, Social Media.
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