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Design and the 5 Golden Rules of Technology purchases.
I’ve learned (from sometimes bitter experience) that there are five golden rules when it comes to technology purchases of any magnitude: Don’t impulse buy. Buy stuff that has a positive effect on your...
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How to design the ultimate presentation.
Introduction This post has been a long time coming, but there’s three specific short-term causes to it appearing now: I’ve seen some fantastic content and ideas be let down by woeful presentations...
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Embedding a live Twitter search in Keynote 09
Sometimes a simple idea strikes you whilst planning a presentation. This time it was: Why can’t I embed a live Twitter search in my slides? Although I never used the functionality, it turns out it was...
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HOWTO: Use Evernote to take notes on books.
Something I’ve started doing recently has revolutionised my ability to synthesise my reading of stuff in paper books. Here’s what I currently do – although there’s probably ways I can improve it (and...
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Having sold individual things sporadically via Twitter (usually after mentioning I was about to put them on eBay) and finding myself needing to raise funds for a rather magnificent Sony Vaio P series,...
View ArticleHOWTO: Create a clickable tag cloud using Tagul
I’ve been asked several times now how I created the clickable tag cloud on the OER infoKit. To save having to explain myself lots of times (and to make others aware that it’s possible) I created this...
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HOWTO: Issue #openbadges in 5 steps using WordPress + WPBadger
Image slideshow not showing? Click here! Good news! Dave Lester has created a plugin for WordPress that makes issuing Open Badges fairly straightforward. Follow the instructions below to get started....
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HOWTO: use GitHub Pages to host a bootstrap-themed website
Last week I mentioned in a blog post and my weekly newsletter the pre-launch website of my new (part-time) consultancy Dynamic Skillset. I had an enquiry as to how the site put together, so I put...
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A Community Alignment model
TL;DR: I’m working on creating a Community Alignment model (name TBC) that sets out some of the ways I’ve had success working with diverse stakeholders to ship meaningful things. I’ve started work on...
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HOWTO: Create radically smaller images for your minimalist blog
Inspired by Low-tech magazine’s solar powered website, I searched the web to find out how to create a ‘stippled’ effect for images. This reduced the size of an 2.2MB image to a mere 30.6KB, which if...
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