Instant #Screencasts – Capture your desktop using a #web-based screen #recorder like #Screenr (#Articulate). With this free service you can record up to five minutes videos and store it in the cloud resp download or publish it on YouTube and share it on Twitter and FB. Further it works on #iPad and #iPhone. Finally, it’s a wonderful tool for informal learning, since everybody wants to share knowledge.

Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record

Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record. Screenr’s web-based screen recorder makes it a breeze to create and share your screencasts around the web. Just click the record button, capture your …

Als “TD-Legionär” angetreten, konnte ich mir heuer überraschend den dritten Platz erkämpfen. Gratulation nochmal an Georg (1., ATD) und Wolfgang (2., TD)! Das ATD-Weihnachtsbowlen war wieder einmal, dank unseres unentbehrlichen Organisators Christian Gratzer, ein voller Erfolg!

If you're using Google Analytics, IQ Lessons has been updated to the new interface. Exams will follow. You're still using the old version: http://al-now.org/?l=143

#google_analytics #tracking

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Lessons to prepare for the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) test or to simply become a more knowledgeable Google Analytics user.

Night of the Proms 2011 – DJ vs Dirigent. I can hardly wait till next year!

#night_of_the_proms

A world, which we should bring to mind!

Finally, be aware of the targeted audience, which is interested in your field and offer buttons to follow, like and share your content.

“A study just released by ShareThis in collaboration with Starcom Mediavest Group (SMG) looked at the sharing and clicking habits of more than 300 million people during the month of March who pass links with a ‘ShareThis‘ button on over 100 million websites.”

#socialmedia #sharing

Do People Share More on Facebook or Twitter?

All my thoughts are with the people in Japan. A dramatic day, where several earthquakes (8.9 Richter scale) and up to ten meter tsunamis caused death and heavy destruction.

Concerning this happening, it might be interesting to take a look at the Digital Tectonic Activity Map (DTAM). It gives you a better understanding of dectonic activity of our planet. Four plates collide near Japan. More about the “Evolving Earth: Plate Tectonics“.

Microsoft sold Kinect 10 million times within four months. A good motive for an entry in the Guinness World Records as “Fastest-Selling Consumer Electronics Device“. Reason enough, to take a closer look at the device. First, you don’t need an additional controller, you are the controller!  Second, there’re a lot of future possibilities to use this device. Pictures are worth a thousand words: Microsoft E3 Kinect Video.

Thanks to Erica Glasier, who shows us how “social media facilitates the fulfillment of our most basic needs”.

Whether you’re a publisher or an ordinary internet user, be aware of Facebooks “Like”-button! Facebook speaks with a forked tongue offering the social network. As a publisher, offering a “Like”-Button, you may find it  quite useful to become more public, despite the fact that search engines have a limited ability to evaluate those scores. However, what’s the effect for an ordinary (Facebook) user? Arnold Roosendaal (TILT, Tilburg University) wrote in his paper “Facebook Tracks and Traces Everyone: Like This!” about the methods and techniques.

Briefly, if you’re already a FB-user, you got an unique user-ID. This ID gets connected to a cookie which is used not only to log on to Facebook, it is also sent every single time you visit a web site which includes the “Like”-button. This means every interaction creates a list of your web behaviour of the last two years! Btw, for FB it’s not important to click the button. If you don’t have an account on FB, the web behaviour will collected anonymously. …as long as you don’t sign up. Here you can find more details: Facebook’s ‘Like This’ button is tracking you.