"There are millions of UK websites. They are constantly changing and even disappearing. Often they contain information that is only available online. Responding to the challenge of a potential "digital black hole" the UK Web Archive is there to safeguard as many of these websites as practical. Its purpose is to collect, preserve and give permanent access to key UK websites for future generations."
"f you have one or more RSS or Atom feeds, you can create a custom widget designer for your website and allow your visitors to create widgets for their websites using your feeds. Because the feed links in the created widgets point to your website, this can help your website or blog gain more traffic and generate more reader interest"
Who should attend?
Knowledge and Information Professionals, Librarians, Community Managers & Facilitators, Data & Information Analysts, Technical Journalists - anyone who struggles to separate the signal from web-generated information noise and who has a desire to demonstrate their value as knowledge professionals to their organization, their customers and their stakeholders.
Twitter's default search only goes back a week-if that-and often chokes on multiple keyword searches. Fortunately, there ARE many great alternatives, and I've included a chart comparing the nine top tweet search engines below. For example, Topsy lets you search all the way back to May, 2008. Here are links to each of the nine (plus a few extra ones), in order of what I've found most useful to least useful for general tweet searches (however, some are powerful in other ways)):
Are you interested in social networking, but don't know where to begin? Are you curious about Facebook and wonder why it's so popular? This workshop will introduce you to the basics of social networking, get you into Facebook for some hands-on learning and generate plenty of discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of this phenomenally popular website.
What is PKM?
There is no generally accepted definition of what personal knowledge management (PKM) actually is. Even if there was it would still mean different things to different people, depending on their own priorities and activities. Some of the areas PKM touches upon are:
Personal effectiveness and getting organised
Dealing with information overload
Using technology and the web
Learning and development (including CPD)
Personal networking and managing relationships
Making sense of an increasingly complex and fast-moving world
ocial Media Examiner is a free online magazine designed to help businesses discover how to best use social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to find leads, increase sales and generate more brand awareness.
Explanation of Shareable Content Object Reference Model in simple terms, for a vendor (Rustici) who make their money from a SCORM engine and integration services.