When I first wrote about Twitter in Higher Education (back in November 2008) I’d not been using the service all that long or as frequently as I do now and it wasn’t until early 2009 that I really started to gather my thoughts about how to make the best use of it. So now we’re [...]

Workshop Six: New professionals: Build your network using social media
My final workshop of the conference was another of Jo Alcock’s sessions, this time focusing on social media – blogs, Twitter and social networking in particularly. I’m not really sure whether I’d be considered an ‘early adopter’ or not, having originally set up this blog in January 2006 – back when [...]

Workshop Five: To e or not to e? eBooks are the question but what is the answer from foundation degree students and teaching staff?
Surprisingly I’m not a massive fan of ebooks. I’ve written about this before so it’s not worth covering again here but I’m still prepared to change my mind… I have been known [...]

Workshop Four: Your library brand and the student experience
Generally speaking we (as information professionals) concentrate on circulating information about our services but tend to lack a strong library brand to market them effectively. Emma Illingworth and Jo Alcock suggest we need strong strategic input to create a brand that maintains and promotes awareness of services [...]

Workshop Three: The bright and dark sides of the web
Linda Jones (the dark) and Timothy Collinson (the bright) from the University of Portsmouth ran this unusually interactive tag-team extravaganza to showcase practical examples of their creative engagement with web 2.0, whilst highlighting some of the pitfalls/dangers of web applications. Participants were also encouraged to share [...]