In your Firefox browser (you should switch if you're still using IE). As I was saying, in your Firefox browser go to the 'Tools' menu & select 'Add-ons' and in the 'Get Add-ons' tab search for 'delicious'; install it (add to Firefox).
You will probably have to restart your browser; but when you get back in there'll be some new icons in your browser.
Now, with those websites that you're interested in bookmarking - select the 'TAG' icon & save.
Now click on the white, blue, black & gray flag icon and this will get you to your bookmarks etc.
Done.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
del.icio.us
It's well past my tea time and using words such as delicious just isn't fair!
Well, now that I'm starving I might as well find out what this is all about, according to Wikipedia Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.
Youtube has provided a nice little tutorial for us to view;
Next post will be on how make it work;
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Well, now that I'm starving I might as well find out what this is all about, according to Wikipedia Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.
Youtube has provided a nice little tutorial for us to view;
Next post will be on how make it work;
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Creating Customized Calendars
So it's Tuesday night again, and here in Dunedin I'm at the Socially Constructed Media Workshops; the secret to my success!
I asked about calendars... and I'm about to learn, here's how to do it yourself if you're interested:
Looks like we'll be using Google Calendar for this mission; here's what Wikipedia has to say:
Step 1; Open up google, log in & click the Calendar link on the top left; here's your calendar!
Step 2; Start adding events (fairly self explanatory)
Step 3; Now... to customize your calendar - you'll want to find the little section on the left titled 'My calendars' in a pretty little box. At the bottom left there's a link to 'settings' click here; choose the calendar that you're working on and in here you can do all these interesting little things;
- change the title
- add a description
- change the timezone
- & ACCESS THE EMBED CODE! - you may have noticed (which I didn't) the calendar might not fit into your medium - this blogs width is 400 (but the calendar width was 800). To change this; above the code you'll see a wee customize link - go here and go wild!
Step 4; copy the embed code now and paste away (see below).
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I asked about calendars... and I'm about to learn, here's how to do it yourself if you're interested:
Looks like we'll be using Google Calendar for this mission; here's what Wikipedia has to say:
Step 1; Open up google, log in & click the Calendar link on the top left; here's your calendar!
Step 2; Start adding events (fairly self explanatory)
Step 3; Now... to customize your calendar - you'll want to find the little section on the left titled 'My calendars' in a pretty little box. At the bottom left there's a link to 'settings' click here; choose the calendar that you're working on and in here you can do all these interesting little things;
- change the title
- add a description
- change the timezone
- & ACCESS THE EMBED CODE! - you may have noticed (which I didn't) the calendar might not fit into your medium - this blogs width is 400 (but the calendar width was 800). To change this; above the code you'll see a wee customize link - go here and go wild!
Step 4; copy the embed code now and paste away (see below).
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SiteCreation on Wordpress!
So yes, I made the step towards Wordpress; check out my new blog SiteCreation following my progress in establishing a new website for Executive Programmes at the University of Otago
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Firefox; you win!
Firefox has won me over... yes, Leigh was right!
With the added bonus of the various search functions, the spell-check & the PDF creator... it's time IE & I parted ways.
Now if only I could remember the name of the twitter accessory Leigh mentioned my Firefox transition would be (a little bit more) complete...
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With the added bonus of the various search functions, the spell-check & the PDF creator... it's time IE & I parted ways.
Now if only I could remember the name of the twitter accessory Leigh mentioned my Firefox transition would be (a little bit more) complete...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Bloging into Facebook
Just to annoy everyone within Facebook I thought I would link this blog to feed into my wall posts. Good fun!
I did this by heading into Facebook (presuming you have one. If not here's some info on Facebook and the best advice I could give you would be to sign in at www.facebook.com, create your account & follow your nose), anyay, once you've got one, head to your 'profile' page & under your 'status update' screen you'll see a little link to 'options' with a microfying glass; click here and it'll chance into 'settings' click this too and you'll see lots of options to import many different mediums. Start with 'blog/rss' and you're done. Done.
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I did this by heading into Facebook (presuming you have one. If not here's some info on Facebook and the best advice I could give you would be to sign in at www.facebook.com, create your account & follow your nose), anyay, once you've got one, head to your 'profile' page & under your 'status update' screen you'll see a little link to 'options' with a microfying glass; click here and it'll chance into 'settings' click this too and you'll see lots of options to import many different mediums. Start with 'blog/rss' and you're done. Done.
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Moblogging with Flickr
Moblogging, really? Apparently what I'm about to do is called moblogging; blogging from a mobile according to the all mighty wikipedia
This is done using Flicker... so I've set myself up an account with Yahoo... (hard enough work keeping track of all these accounts you have to establish let alone the actual task you're trying to achieve).
Once you're in there;
1. Head to tools (found right at the bottom of the page)
2. Click the link that says 'very own private upload address'. See your private email address there now...
3. Create a new contact in your phone and add the email address that flicker has given you
4. Send your image from your mobile to this new address; it should appear when you click YOU
5. Click on the image & add a tag to it; now with this tag you can click on it and view those photos or if you click the globe you can see all the photos that are tagged with those words from everyone in the world.... amazing! Done.
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This is done using Flicker... so I've set myself up an account with Yahoo... (hard enough work keeping track of all these accounts you have to establish let alone the actual task you're trying to achieve).
Once you're in there;
1. Head to tools (found right at the bottom of the page)
2. Click the link that says 'very own private upload address'. See your private email address there now...
3. Create a new contact in your phone and add the email address that flicker has given you
4. Send your image from your mobile to this new address; it should appear when you click YOU
5. Click on the image & add a tag to it; now with this tag you can click on it and view those photos or if you click the globe you can see all the photos that are tagged with those words from everyone in the world.... amazing! Done.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Twitter WidGET
This 'blog spotting' reveals many hidden treasures; on a good friend's blog (Leigh Blackall) I was sidetracked by the fact that he has his tweets displayed alongside his posts. Which, of course, I want! So, I'm wondering how...
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Really Simple Syndication... says who?
Says who? Says wikipedia actually.
To me RSS feeds sounded really complicated; but I guess that wouldn't be a terribly good tag line would it.
So what is RSS - it is a tool that is indicated by the presence of this enlarged orange icon. Basically wherever you see this icon it means that the page can be 'channeled' into a medium such as your google reader and you can keep up to date with that information.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Theory Query
So today I was off "blog spotting" (trying to get used to doing this on a regular basis) and I came into difficulty with a subscription which only gave me the option of subscribing using Microsoft; no google reader.
It got me thinking; at work I use the Microsoft suite of products and this seemed to be a good idea as everything would be managed alongside my outlook email etc, so thought I would just ask any readers out there "Would you recommend google reader over Microsoft, and why?"
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It got me thinking; at work I use the Microsoft suite of products and this seemed to be a good idea as everything would be managed alongside my outlook email etc, so thought I would just ask any readers out there "Would you recommend google reader over Microsoft, and why?"
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Technorati
So, what is technorati?
Wikipedia thinks Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo!. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[2] The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati, or intellectuals.
So, why use technorati when everything till this point has been all about google? The answer was provided by the very helpful Leigh Blackall who pointed out to me that google search engines have more to gain from identifying blogs created with google and therefore content might be missed.
So, we use an external provider, first stop; technorati; pop in the key words you want to search in the 'blogosphere' and you're off!
When you find something of interest remember to subscribe to it with your google reader.
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Wikipedia thinks Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo!. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[2] The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati, or intellectuals.
So, why use technorati when everything till this point has been all about google? The answer was provided by the very helpful Leigh Blackall who pointed out to me that google search engines have more to gain from identifying blogs created with google and therefore content might be missed.
So, we use an external provider, first stop; technorati; pop in the key words you want to search in the 'blogosphere' and you're off!
When you find something of interest remember to subscribe to it with your google reader.
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Wiki'd Wikispaces
A nice little tool in the 'belt' of social media is wikispaces; though I can absolutely see the value in wikispaces I myself won't be using this terribly much; however, for future reference, and in case any readers are interested here's what I've learned, and what wikipedia & youtube can add to the mix.
Getting started; head to wikispaces.com, and follow their instructions.
As I've been learning on this journey; most social media tools are designed to be straight forward. The difficult part is working out what tools are avilable, what ones suit your needs and where to find them. Hopefully this has helped you work out if wikispaces are something you want to pursue.
Here is my wikispace but I apologise, it's not terribly dynamic at this stage. If I do re-visit this medium I will certainly keep you updated.
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Getting started; head to wikispaces.com, and follow their instructions.
As I've been learning on this journey; most social media tools are designed to be straight forward. The difficult part is working out what tools are avilable, what ones suit your needs and where to find them. Hopefully this has helped you work out if wikispaces are something you want to pursue.
Here is my wikispace but I apologise, it's not terribly dynamic at this stage. If I do re-visit this medium I will certainly keep you updated.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The Hype around Hyperlinks
So, a hyperlink is where you can make any piece of text link to a webpage; sounds difficult but it's actually relatively easy!
And even easier in forums such as this - you may have noticed when you're writing a document (word, email, blog...) a little icon which looks like a world globe with a paperclip over it? This is an assistant for creating a hyperlink; simply highlight the text you want to turn into a link, click this icon, and paste in the url address from a browser. Done.
A little more complicated is when you have to create your own hyperlink manually; but here's a hyperlink to instructions for doing this.
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And even easier in forums such as this - you may have noticed when you're writing a document (word, email, blog...) a little icon which looks like a world globe with a paperclip over it? This is an assistant for creating a hyperlink; simply highlight the text you want to turn into a link, click this icon, and paste in the url address from a browser. Done.
A little more complicated is when you have to create your own hyperlink manually; but here's a hyperlink to instructions for doing this.
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Embedding Youtube
So, I've accomplished embedding a map - I'm about to take on a video; heading to the Youtube page find yourself something that interests you (I'm putting in a video of using blogger - which may be useful if you want to know how to set a blog like this up for yourself.
Once you're there and you've searched for a video of interest you'll see on the right hand side a box with a description about the video etc and two lines of code - the lower one 'Embed' is the piece you're after. Copy this into your blog. Done.
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Once you're there and you've searched for a video of interest you'll see on the right hand side a box with a description about the video etc and two lines of code - the lower one 'Embed' is the piece you're after. Copy this into your blog. Done.
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Embedding Google Maps
So now each time I'm on a site referring to an address I do appreciate when someone's taken the time to put in a map - sure I could go onto google maps & look it up myself; but I much prefer not to have too.
Fairly hypocritical of me though, having no experience of how to do this myself I thought it time to learn; sign into google maps (this is another sneaky tool hidden on the top left of the google page) put in the location that you're after; i.e. 60 Clyde Street, Dunedin, head to the little blue link 'my maps' & start with 'create new map'. In here it will let you put in a title & a description; i.e. The Otago MBA, where I work. Done. Now on the top right hand side of the map that you're looking at is a link that is titled 'link' click here; the second piece of code says 'paste HTML to embed in website'; self explanitory really.
View The Otago MBA in a larger map
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Fairly hypocritical of me though, having no experience of how to do this myself I thought it time to learn; sign into google maps (this is another sneaky tool hidden on the top left of the google page) put in the location that you're after; i.e. 60 Clyde Street, Dunedin, head to the little blue link 'my maps' & start with 'create new map'. In here it will let you put in a title & a description; i.e. The Otago MBA, where I work. Done. Now on the top right hand side of the map that you're looking at is a link that is titled 'link' click here; the second piece of code says 'paste HTML to embed in website'; self explanitory really.
View The Otago MBA in a larger map
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