The Invasive Valley of Personalization
About 9 months ago, I gave a presentation at the World Future Society Conference called The...
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Category: Web Presence
My Social Media Story
Here’s the story about how I came to use social media and why. If you’ve had trouble...
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10 Things Our Kids WILL Worry About Thanks to the Information Revolution
After reading this list of “10 Things our Kids will Never Worry About Thanks to the...
Read MoreDigital Organization: Create a clickable resume!
In Michigan, unemployment is somewhere between 15 and 20%, depending on who’s collecting the data. Consequently, there are a lot of stories in the news about job fairs, interviewing techniques, and resume advice. After...
Read MoreDigital Organizers: Set up Google Alerts!
It’s relatively simple to monitor what your name is doing on the web. Set up a web alert that will notify you when a new occurrence of your name goes into the search engine. The most common alert systems are Google Alerts and Yahoo Alerts.
Read MoreDigital Decluttering: Clean up those profiles!
This is the first installment of what will likely be a 52-week series. The series is based on a conference/webinar presentation I’ve been doing for a while now called Organize Your Digital Self (OYDS). Perhaps...
Read MoreGoogle Sites and Page Creator
I mentioned in my last blog post that we used Google Page Creator at the workshop to build web pages. Today I saw that Google just launched a new blog to follow Google Sites, and here is a video about how it works:This is, quite...
Read MoreNeed an Easy Webpage? Link In
Try using LinkedIn for your professional webpage. Then on your college website, just put the basics about yourself and link to the LinkedIn profile. Here’s mine as an example: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mariahandersen...
Read MoreMath Department Webpages
I read a blog a little while back on “The Importance of Being ‘clickable’ ” on the Dangerously Irrelevant Blog. It got me thinking that our department has lots of information, but the...
Read MoreHow to do Mouseovers using Snagit
What’s a mouseover? It’s when you hover your mouse over an image, and text appears that is associated with the image. Technically, you could also call these “interactive hotspots.”Here is a simple example...
Read MoreInstructor Webpages
First let’s address the function of an instructor web page vs. an online learning platform, just to make sure all of our readers are aware that there is a difference.If you want to host discussions, put up notes,...
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