This week was a week of phoning, e-mailing, Skyping, and generally arranging. In our Skype conversation on Wednesday, Paul and I also used the Skype ‘Unyte’ screen-sharing application which was quite successful.
On Friday afternoon, I listened –and looked!- in to an Instant Presenter session hosted by RSC Scotland N-E on the Scottish RSCs’ Newsfeed. This is an RSS feed from their news blog (on Wordpress – hosted locally): http://www.scottish-rscs.org.uk/newsfeed , and is their new way of distributing news to their community. The use of a blog gives some key advantages – a variety of media can be embedded; the information ‘persists’ and is taggable and searchable; and feedback/comments can be added by readers. The blog’s content will obviously have Scottish content, and JISC content, and is FE-focussed (they use Google Reader to get some of their local info).They try to add a ‘personal touch’ with an editorial and a ‘guest spot’. Not many pictures on the blog until you follow some of the links - I found a nice one of a horned owl (from Flickr used under Creative Commons) with some useful information about the RSPB's learn Birds online course.
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I had looked at the RSC Scotland blog too, and wondered about the possiblity of an RSC Wales one (especially when set up to show the individual staff member posting each entry). However I suppose our news and events feeds cover most items, and we use our email lists and blogs for the rest.
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