Category: Twitter

Useful Links: more about .gov, Twitter, education

Hear me stumble around White House Recovery and Data GOV web sites from As Your World Changes picks up the accessibility banner regarding the .gov web sites. Slger recorded  himself on audio while trying to navigate these sites.

How Twitter will Change the Way we Live at Time Magazine may be of interest to you.

Web Design Education Sucks at Boagworld starts a discussion about what’s wrong with the current state of web design education and offers some suggestions for change. Go participate in the discussion.

Summary of eHow articles for May

The articles I published on eHow in May are listed.

Deb's Deli

Jemez Springs is about 45 minutes from Albuquerque in the Jemez Mountains. I went to a Tai Chi Retreat there and took a bunch of photos. There are about 4 places to eat in this tiny town, all serve very good food. Deb’s Deli serves real homemade pie, ice cream, and you can get a hair cut in the shop in the hall. I ate a lot more than I soaked in the hot springs, and I did Tai Chi a lot more than either of those things.

For eHow in May, I opened a new Twitter account for @Veesites. Veesites  is my eHow username, and this Twitter account will contain only tweets about eHow content. The new account will give me an RSS feed from Twitter for my eHow content, since eHow doesn’t provide for a way for individual users to get a clean RSS feed for articles.

Twitter as an RSS source

I’m the proud owner to two new Twitter accounts. Both of them are meant to be nothing but an RSS feed. . . .

I’m the proud owner to two new Twitter accounts. Both of them are meant to be nothing but an RSS feed. One is for eHow articles and the other is for TGB Elder Geek articles. Neither site has a handy way to create a feed for just one individual’s articles, and Twitter is a great solution.

There’s a new Grazr widget in the sidebar today. It’s a feed reader widget that provides access to the feed from every site where I normally post things in the course of a week. Because of Twitter, I’m able to provide a useful URL on Grazr to create this handy RSS widget.

Thanks to Twitter for having feeds.

Useful Links: Twitter Presentation, Adobe Instruction. Law & Science

A Twitter talk, some great instructional materials, and a few questions.

Laura Fitton’s talk about Twitter at Google Tech Talk is really interesting. It’s on YouTube. She’s @Pistachio.

Adobe Instructional Resources has resources for all the Adobe products as well as what they call career skills. Great information for instructors and learners.

Law and Science from Female Science Professor is a reflection on the new opening on the Supreme Court and science. “Why has the number of women reaching the upper levels of the legal profession changed so much in the past 20 years but the same is not the case for science and engineering in academia, government, or the private sector?”

Raise Money on Twitter with Tipjoy

Tips for tipjoy tip collecting. More . . .

Tipjoy is a well known online micropayment app that allows you to collect small sums for various causes on your blog or website. It can now be integrated with Twitter to both give and get money.

Before you begin, it’s a good idea to open a new Twitter account just for the fund raising project you have in mind. Use a name reflecting your goal such as the fabulously successful account named @charitywater.

Set up a page on your blog or web site explaining what the fund raiser is all about and what the money will be used to do.

Go to the Tipjoy home page. There’s a very obvious box for Twitter users to get started. Tipjoy will generate some code for you that you can add to your page as a widget. This widget will do two things: collect money and tweet about each donation. You customize this widget on the Tipjoy Twitter Tools page.

When you tweet about the fund raising project, use a url shortener for your page with the collection widget, so there will be plenty of characters available for retweeting.

Summary of eHow articles for April

A list of the articles I published on eHow in April. How-to galore.

Spring Flowers

It’s spring. It’s beautiful. It’s renewal, life-affirming renewal. Get outside and take a walk.

Here’s a list of what I published on eHow in April.

Useful LInks: Twitter apps, RDFa, WCAG 2.0

A fun Twitter app, a good explanation of RDFa and the semantic web, and a simplified checklist to use with WCAG 2.0 specs. More . . .

There’s another fun web app to use with Twitter. It’s called Twitter Grader. It isn’t quite as useful as some of the apps growing up around Twitter, but it’s fun to play with and get your “grade.”

RDFa, Drupal and a Practical Semantic Web at CMS Wire is a terrific piece in clear language that explains what a sematic web is and how  RDFa fits into that concept. It also will help RDFa newbies grasp what it’s all about.

WebAIM’s WCAG 2.0 Checklist. WebAIM has simplified and organized the WCAG specs into an easy to use format with simplified explanations of how you can meet the standards. This would make a great handout or required reading assignment to add to your students’ reading lists. It could also be useful as a grading rubric for assignments that are required to be accessible.