Listing Details
| ID: | 588 |
| Title: | Stephen's Web |
| URL: | http://www.downes.ca/ |
| Category: | Education & Training: Online Learning |
| Description: | Stephen Downes works for the National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He specializes in online learning, content syndication, and new media. |
| How A New Blog Brought In $2,000 in Revenue—and Attracted 800 Readers—In A Single Day (case study) - Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:02:59 -0400 |
Derek Halpern,Social Triggers, February 7, 2012. What's worthwhile about this post is that it's at least honest about the technique, widely used (but seldom admitted) to drive readership. Called 'drafting', the idea is that you in some way associate your work with that of the famous and get drawn along in their wake. It's not just for SEO specialists like this one. It's for everyday bloggers - just list (or even better, link to) famous people (like from Noam Chomsky and Sir Ken Robinson, Mitch Resnick, Jaron Lanier, Conrad Wolfram, Ellen McArthur, Charles Leadbeater, Keri Facer, Stephen Heppell and Ray Kurzweil) and wait for the search hits to come in, or even better, for them to read your stuff and link to it. Or as Derek Halpern says, find your competitors, find the journalists who covered the story, and offer them a follow-up on the same story. Same concept. Or write things that praise the people who are already influential, and follow along in their wake. Same principle.[Link] [Comment] |
| New keynote speaker video - Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:50:26 -0400 |
Ross Dawson,Trends in the Living Networks, February 7, 2012. I should make a 'keynote speaker' video. I could record myself staring into space and mumbling incoherently. Every once in a while I'd shout "Yes! Fish!"[Link] [Comment] |
| Welcome to the pleasure domes - Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:41:59 -0400 |
Normally I wouldn't report on a conference set-up but these activity domes created by Graham Brown-Martin at Learning without Frontiers at Olympia in London caught my imagination. The presentations at the conference look decidedly ordinary, but as Steve Wheeler writes, "it was around and inside the domes that much of the conversations, connections and creativity took place.[Link] [Comment] |
