Disqus - Latest Comments for juliadesigns

Re: SALT, Gwella and Synergies….

juliadesigns — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:37:37 -0000

Great minds think alike, Chris!

I have two relevant lists:

http://twitter.com/juliadesigns/education-uk

http://twitter.com/juliadesigns/colleagues

I think most folk are on at least one of those lists - you are probably on
both!! I have other non-education lists too if you fancy a nose!

Julia

2009/12/17 Disqus <>

Re: LUNCHTIME POLL: What’s Your Favorite News Reader?

juliadesigns — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:09:45 -0000

Google Reader for me too

Re: Twitter Lists- Im Not Down

juliadesigns — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:15:58 -0000

As someone who is never on anyone's lists about anything - good, bad or indifferent - I think we have to become reasonably philosophical about this. Most of us are only really known to a small handful of people on the web in relative terms - much as in real life our social circles do not usually consist of thousands of people - so maybe we should just choose to follow lists that seems relevant or interesting to us either personally or for our work and continue to cultivate and maybe extend our own little social circles online without wondering if we are hip, trendy or popular enough to be followed or listed?

Re: http://newsweek.tumblr.com/post/199319077

juliadesigns — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:57:49 -0000

Kudos to you for making the ultimate sacrifice so that the rest of us dont have to. An hour or so was all I could manage, I feebly admit.

Re: iPhone Coming to Orange UK

juliadesigns — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:25:23 -0000

As someone who excitedly bought an iPhone a couple of months ago on O2 but had to send it back because there wasnt sufficient cellular coverage where I live (Orange is about the best in my area) I wholeheartedly welcome this news and will definitely be donating my Samsung Tocca to a family member and upgrading to an iPhone when they are available on Orange. Best bit of news I've heard all day - ok it has been a bad day but still!

Re: eLearning Blog // Don’t Waste Your Time … » Dear Blackboard …

juliadesigns — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:12:25 -0000

Despite actually being employed to admin Blackboard, it is just a tool to me and I would be just as happy looking after something a little more modern if it came my way :-)

Re: 6 Reasons Why Mozilla Firefox Is Safe Compared To Internet Explorer

juliadesigns — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:50:04 -0000

Connect with me on Ecademy

,

I'd like to invite you to be part of my Ecademy network.

I use Ecademy to manage my professional contacts, share knowledge and market my business. Take a look - it has paid off for me.

* Click here to accept the invitation to join my network! *

Julia Ault
juliadesigns@gmail.com

It costs nothing to join Ecademy and it only takes a minute to sign up.

This email was sent to
To avoid receiving these emails in the future send an email from that address to invite-unsubscribe@ecademy.com
or go to http://www.ecademy.com/blockinvites.php?e=
Email:support@ecademy.com Company Registration:3651083 VAT:718 0377 36

Re: Web 2.0 - Inception..

juliadesigns — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:50:02 -0000

Re: Office 2010 will be on the Cloud

juliadesigns — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:12:17 -0000

This could in theory, save HEIs money on licensing costs perhaps? Some HEIs and other organisations have been unable to afford to upgrade their Office systems and thus staff/students/employees are still using old versions which, whilst perfectly adequate for basic tasks, do lack some of the more useful features of later versions. We are using Office XP 2002 in TUCC, for example.

Re: 6 Reasons Why Mozilla Firefox Is Safe Compared To Internet Explorer

juliadesigns — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:00:02 -0000

A man after my own heart, Chris! I too use Chrome in the ways you described
and love the separate desktop apps for Gmail, Calendar and Reader both at
home and in work. I also use one for my Novell WebAccess work email when at
home which works great. I have also used Prism to create similar apps from
Firefox.
I am a big fan of Opera too, which I used for years not just as a browser,
but Opera Mail was my sole email client at home until going back to work
when I could not download emails through Opera at work as we are only
allowed to use Port 80 - apart from in our GroupWise desktop client. I then
set up Gmail to pick up all my personal email accounts and send from them so
that I can access other email in work too, if needed.

So I tend to flit between the 3 browsers at will, which is handy if you want
to keep signed in to a few different accounts for example.

I just cant get on with IE for some reason (although I have tried) and
usually ignore it as much as is humanly possible! Have you ever tried to
code websites for IE6 (and other normal browsers) ??? *shudders at the
traumatic memories invoked*

2009/8/27 Disqus <>

Re: Social media starter videos

juliadesigns — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:07:59 -0000

Ah thanks Chris...ii was a bit worried about their quality I must say as it is my first attempt. A very good point re adding feeds and that probably needs another short video to clarify.

Re: I don’t want to be a lecturer anymore

juliadesigns — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:47:40 -0000

Sounds very thought provoking, Chris...will go and read it myself now and then share my thoughts on it.

Re: People who RWW readers follow on Twitter (Scripting News)

juliadesigns — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:20:15 -0000

Is it a bit sad of me to be disappointed that I am not on the list despite having tried out the procedure from RWW? Maybe I really need to get a life and stop paying attention to all these lists and numbers :-)
I probably used @swwtel_links instead of @juliadesigns but neither of my identities featured....Not that I really understand the list order and numbers by the names I must confess!

Re: Oh, FriendFeed is now Facebook’s “official” R&D department!

juliadesigns — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:58:17 -0000

I dont have a warm fuzzy feeling about this myself, either. Somehow I tend to agree that FF is more geeky and Fb is more mainstream...I rather liked the distinction actually...ah well

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/video-demo-how-to-use-lazyfeed-for-real.html

juliadesigns — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:20:40 -0000

Thanks very much for organising the invite and the video, Louis. Lazyfeed is a great idea and I will be using it all the time now xx

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/video-demo-how-to-use-lazyfeed-for-real.html

juliadesigns — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:52:06 -0000

Thanks Louis. An invite would be appreciated by me too :-)
Nb: How did you do your constantly updating Twitter feed at the side? It is pretty cool and I want one..lol!

Re: Web 2.0 - Inception..

juliadesigns — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:37:11 -0000

"Approve"

2009/4/30 Disqus <>

Re: First steps in work.

juliadesigns — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:34:37 -0000

Thanks Nancy. Hope you are keeping well, hun xx

Re: Social Media Is Far From Overrated

juliadesigns — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:17:34 -0000

Hi Corvida! long time no blog....:-(

The reason for me is I have just finished school and started work!
The plus side of that is that my job is that of eLearning Support Officer at my local University in the UK and a major aspect of the work will be to investigate Web 2.0 concepts and applications to see how they can be applied to Higher Ed.

This is rather a new concept for the UK Higher Education mainstream (certainly out in the backwaters, if not in the big cities) and I am currently developing a social network for staff to share ideas, thoughts, best practice and so on in eLearning, using the Ning platform.

This will be quite radical for some staff members, so I will be reporting back on my experiences and findings over the coming weeks and months on ffynnonweb.com

Any hints, tips and so on are always warmly welcomed and appreciated by me!

If anyone reckons another platform may be better suited, please let me know. I like Ning at the moment because you can make a private network for your place of work with individual groups for each department and support unit, thus tying us all in closely together.

We will see how it works out anyway.

Good luck with school and dont work too hard!
Julia xxx

Re: Blog Comments Aren’t Dead, But Your Activities May Be Keeping Them Away

juliadesigns — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:43:20 -0000

Re shorter posts- you could well be right.....but it sort of breaks the flow of the story somehow, when I wanted to tell a story in several chapters. Maybe there should have been more chapters, perhaps?

Re: Blog Comments Aren’t Dead, But Your Activities May Be Keeping Them Away

juliadesigns — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:34:06 -0000

I rarely if ever, receive blog comments. I used to think that folk werent reading my blog (perhaps they are'nt!) but my Twitter followers are increasing steadily as are my contacts on mybloglog even if my subscribers are few, so someone must read/like me somewhere..lol
It must also be said that having posted several related and rather lengthy blog posts concerning my dissertation, I am now taking a bit of a break before starting a newish topic (elearning and social media in education) which is the career direction I am hoping to follow in the autumn, so hopefully that subject will attract some new interest.

Re: Degree Results Today!!

juliadesigns — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:20:16 -0000

Awww...thanks Scotty!! It certainly is a relief....job-hunting now of course!!

Re: louisgray.com: What I Believe: My 10 Web and Blogging Expectations

juliadesigns — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:40:14 -0000

Great post Louis and with lots of food for thought for those of us just starting out in the new blogosphere (if not the web itself, in my case).
It is very helpful to receive some guidance, as the likelihood of some of us offending or putting our metaphorical foot in it, is quite high in the beginning!! It can be a bit chastening or upsetting to be pulled up for these things, so it is better to know and understand the 'netiquette' as soon as possible.

I gather you have just become a father, so many congratulations to you.

Re: Social media for colleges and universities

juliadesigns — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:21:58 -0000

My Union has a strong presence on Facebook and you have to join our college network using your college email so you can be verified. I dont think the college staff themselves post on these places yet though. On the positive side, they are hoping to increase awareness of social media as they develop their elearning provision so there is hope that things will improve shortly.

Re: Money Should Never Motivate You

juliadesigns — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:24:44 -0000

I think you have definitely got the right idea, hun. If you cant follow your dream now - when the heck can you?? Go for it..what on earth have you got to lose? Absolutely nothing and potentially everything to gain....I love this new online world of social media and friendship, even though I am a lot older than you, I still have the same 'thirst for knowledge' (as someone said about me recently) and genuine excitement about learning new things - in fact, sometimes I feel like a kid in a sweet shop..maybe because I am older and none of this technology existed when I was young? Who knows? Anyway.....all good stuff!!