I LIVE AND WORK in South Tipperary, a destination I chose and one I think many of my American friends should experience. A 10-minute video created by the South Tipperary County Council brings home the message. When mashed up with social media commentary, it's a very strong message with an appeal to anyone considering locating a large industrial plant in a region where some of the most creative third level students I have met live and study.
I WROTE A POST five years ago about getting unsolicited emails at work containing content that I cannot send to colleagues. I've changed the post because of a message from Google. If I mistakenly send a porn-filled image to the wrong person, I could cost that person a job because the image might show up in a censorware filter and breach acceptable use guidelines at the reader's workplace. I'm reposting part of my original post here, wondering whether Google's AdSense filters will pick it up. I'll know all is well if Google serves its advertisements alongside this post.
You can see the original question that started this post by crawling through the Internet Wayback Machine. I'm hestiant to link to the original content because it will alert the Googlebots.
Robert Scoble -- "Niall Send Microsoft Team a Porn Message"
JOSIE FRASER ARTICULATES a vision of education that resonates true for me. She celebrates education as a mechanism to promote an awareness of other possibilities--of other ways of doing things. She's right and I'm glad I've heard her discuss these things at different events around Europe.
IT'S A MONTH AWAY from Pen & Pixel, the annual exhibition in Tipperary Institute. It promises to be the biggest creative multimedia exhibition ever mounted in Clonmel. The event starts at 1830 on 14 April 2011 on the college campus, N24 Ring Road, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland.
THE HONEYMOON IS ALMOST OVER for the newly-elected Irish government and commentary continues in the Sunday broadsheets about the imminent default on ECB debt by the Irish government. The Sunday papers also include the annual league table for Ireland's top 400 schools. [1] Much of the same behaviour continues with the new government, including quangos (jobs for the boys), taxes (including a new one for laptops in homes), and gender bias in politics. The best part of the Sunday papers today is a commercial section inside the Sunday Business Post covering Best Schools. [2] Its content complements the upcoming ICT in Education Conference at Tipperary Institute on Saturday, May 14, 2011.
1. Gonzaga College in Ranelagh, Glenstal Abbey in County Limerick and The Teresian School in Donnybrook top the charts. More than 90% of the graduates in each of these schools continue their education into universities.
2. Sunday Business Post -- "Best Schools: Putting Technology to work in the Classroom"
I AM INVITING participants on the Web Promotion for Business course to comment on my observations about the group dynamic that I have seen while working with 18 ex-Dell employees taking a Level 6 course accredited by the Limerick Institute of Technology. The group is part of the last long course running in the Limerick region for workers made redundant by Dell. Every one of the course participants shows an excetionally high level of technical awareness. They are task-oriented, with a work ethos that extends outside of the 18 hours we meet every week. Their sense of finishing is very strong. It's the kind of attention to detail you would expect to find on a top class production line. I may have the members of this EGF Dell group contribute to this post with comments that affirm or deny my observations. For the moment, I'll be happy if this blog post goes directly from my Nokia E7 in my sitting room (that's the scene of the photo at right) and lands on the Typepad servers with my MP3 intact.
I HAVE ALWAYS wondered how Typepad's Ajax interface would work on Nokia handsets and after a few experiments, I know the basic Nokia web browser gets easily confused by Ajaxy things. I started this blog post on my E7, saved it to draft, and then finished the post on my laptop. During the next few weeks, I'm going to refine the process. Back when I used the E90 (at right) for mail2blog postings, I used my mail clients exclusively. That's probably the direction I want to go again, possibly using the Well email server as my main point of entry. Using the E7 is a real treat for me because my fat fingers normally slow down my text entry on touchscreens. The E7's QWERTY keyboard is an essential piece of business technology.
JUST A QUICK CHECK of mail2blog posting sent from my Nokia E7 phone. I'm trying to make the E7 work with AlonMP3, a piece of software that is not designed for new Symbian phones. The recording software works great with my legacy mobile recording equipment, shown at left. I want to pull all these things together on the Web Promotion for Business course that we're running. If this post goes up to my weblog, it means that my mail2blog service is working fine with my E7's Gmail service. I'm trying to attach audio clips directly to my blog posts--something that I thought I could do last year--but discovered that I cannot email directly out from the AlonMP3 software. After I emailed my blog post up to InsideView, I used the server software to attach the audio file to the blog post. I'd like to be able to email the MP3 file to the blog as an attachment to a post.
#EGFDELL IS A hashtag that two dozen people have started using in conjunction with an EGF-funded programme for ex-Dell employees using SonyEricsson X8 handsets to master web promotion skills. Today marks the start of the fourth week of hands-on social media workshops that Tipperary Institute is running in partnership with LIT. As one of the lecturers on the 12-week course, I am trying to stay ahead of the group by offering 10-minute overviews ahead of each class meeting. So I made an Audioboo that describes my plan for today's meet-up. Behind the scenes, two cohorts of participants is following the course progress. Those cohorts sit in Clonmel, completing social media and public relations modules on that campus. After two more weeks, a series of collaborative tasks will be completed with the help of people who meet only via social networking tools. We begin the process today, with a Limerick group upvoting content on a Facebook Group page. By following the #egfdell tag on different networks, people can get a clearer idea about the group dynamic.
DUNDALK'S DESUDIET emphatically vanquished the University of Limerick's Red2D electronic robot in the Thurles Thunderdome, home of the All-Ireland Robocode competition. The Dundalk Institute of Technology has never won the Irish Computer Society Robocode Trophy and the style of the winning team's code is a testimony to clever Java programming skills. The competition involves surviving a series of rounds with electronic bots programmed by teams from third level colleges around Ireland. Dundalk's bot showed a clever understanding of the electronic canvas, maneuvering with less energy loss than its competitors. In the final round against the University of Limerick, Dundalk's bot had to avoid withering fire from the competition. But those UL rounds cost a lot of energy and in seven-round final, the winner was the bot that actually scooted around without becoming vulnerable to the lurking danger of the sentry bots. The Robocode competition is eight years old and now part of the wildly successful Games Fleadh run by Tipperary Institute. Some of the competitors have graduated and now work in the Irish games industry.
