tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:23:19 +0000MPS09IET09connectivitypublic servicesAfrica School TechnologyMTRaineyScotland Social MediaThinkPublicafricablogs business listscakesconferenceseducation distributionequityhorses mouthironbridgelearningmcdonaldsmentoringnetworkremote workingskypesocial reportingtunisiawebyoutubeCelebrating the creative mix between work and playhttp://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)Blogger66125en-usnoCelebrating the creative mix between work and playnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-1581055627705539615Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:20:00 +00002013-01-22T02:20:00.767-08:00http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/Business/Baidu-targets-Africa-with-Orange-tie-up This is the first move of the Chinese content industry into Africa. I predicted it in my article on Chinese IT missions to Africa for This is Africa half a year ago.http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2013/01/httpwwwthisisafricaonlinecombusinessbai.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-3987348726904139753Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:28:00 +00002011-07-04T15:30:19.912-07:00This was built for us in Bangladesh by the charming Mamunur Rashid - and is starting to do the business.http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2011/07/african-digital-diaries-is-live.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-4854201029066840777Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:26:00 +00002011-07-04T15:28:33.495-07:00Rudy de Waele has collected five predictions from a wide range of African mobile entrepreneurs and visionaries. They consensually point to a very exciting african mobile future. Mobile Trends 2020 Africa View more presentations from Rudy De Waele http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2011/07/african-mobile-predictions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-842027789359769855Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:58:00 +00002011-04-05T02:00:01.684-07:00This community (or audience) profliing dataset from Cambridge University Psychometrics unit is in beta. http://likeaudience.com/ and I think it is quite interesting. It is the first research tool using facebook as its population sample which is produced with proper statistical methodology.I see social media planning applications in benchmarking, indexing, community and prediction work: it mines http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2011/04/facebook-population-psychology-research.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-5733694396773265291Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:11:00 +00002011-03-31T02:13:34.926-07:00Nothing beats this for immersive navigation and information delivery on the web. A music map which allows you to see and hear as you explore modern composition. Click "Music Map"http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2011/03/audio-map-immersive-sound-navigation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-4076925209437269169Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:13:00 +00002011-03-31T01:41:08.699-07:00I thought I'd try out the YouTube free editor as I'm always saying that web 2.0 sharing technology makes it easy for everyone to be a creator of content. For African Digital Diaries, it's potentially the way that someone with access only to an internet cafe could work with pictures. Well, it's simple to get a simple product together. Whatever's on there, you can stitch into a kind of assembly. http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2011/03/editing-on-youtube.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-3087863524615698585Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:09:00 +00002011-03-28T01:18:29.997-07:00 Twenty five years ago in Taos an old Indian trader from the pueblo sold me a pair of elk moccassins. I was twenty-two then. He said they would last me out all of my days. However, he said that about half way through my life, I should come back to Taos to get them repaired and re-soled. He said I would find someone there who would do it, although it wouldn't be him, and he couldn't tell me http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2011/03/time-to-re-shoe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-8392123237008282476Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:46:00 +00002011-01-19T03:07:23.534-08:00University of Houston has a format for students to make digital content as part of their work, and distribute it on Itunes and other channels. See it here. This implies that the action of narrative and story telling is educationally valid as a part of Higher Ed. Do I agree ? I guess I do. Up to a point. If students qualify for employment by telling stories skillfully, it leads us to a society, http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2011/01/digital-stories-in-university-and-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-1788737405262499666Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:16:00 +00002010-11-26T02:19:32.228-08:00My son was on the London march against higher tuition fees and was held for 8 hours in the cold along with the others in the "kettle". This is the seminal moment in the political coming of age of this generation - this will be their poll tax. I am hearing stories of gates of schools being heaved off hinges so that kids could break out and attend.Independent schools are threatening their pupils http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/education-cuts-protest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-4326522120520485628Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:00:00 +00002010-11-22T03:04:00.509-08:00Kiva the online microloan site had always been one of my darlings. I happened on news today that it was a bit of a sham. Effective, but presenting a story in the wrong order: the loan recipients online are already funded, and the money you pledge is recycled to the next tranche not the one that grabbed your eyes. OK, that's business and process. But it hurts because it matters.Here's the story http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/kiva-fallen-star.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-7804994256730433825Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:45:00 +00002010-11-18T02:47:10.847-08:00Who would have thought that refuseniks and escapism would be a viable online brand ? But here we have apparently 18,000 members for a site of city professionals whose avowed aim is to escape from the City. curiouser and curiouser.http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-escape.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-3001554308011657934Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:32:00 +00002010-11-18T02:33:41.323-08:00I got this one today - a stop murdoch - which is literally only 10 seconds to turn into an individual personalised email to the relevant authorities. Too quick ?http://www.avaaz.org/en/ofcom_no_bskyb_takeover/?98.php?CLICKTFhttp://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/online-petitions-are-they-too-easy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-3647819584959751343Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:32:00 +00002010-11-16T16:45:22.793-08:00Today in Glasgow I was locked in for the whole morning with a selection of Scotland's best web and online brains - crunching the challenges and successes of The Daily What, one of my education projects.But my online hero of the hour is actually John Lewis.com. For making an online experience that really matches the real world experience. How many retailers have their shops and their sites at http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/online-hero-of-day-john-lewis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-832731542951509513Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:19:00 +00002010-11-16T17:12:43.373-08:00blogs business listsBOSS - “CAN WE PLEASE GET HOLD OF A TOP BLOGGERS’ LIST ?”ME - “Yes of course”This task has sat unbudgingly in my to do list for over three weeks (OK one of them was half term). I don't usually prevaricate. But this one is elusive, and it's interesting why.So, why do we want this list? To inject our excellent content into blogs with ready-made followings, so we don’t have to go through the sweathttp://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/top-blogger-assignment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-1543801034139345638Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:22:00 +00002010-11-12T06:25:25.130-08:00We launched our new weather service that gives you hour by hour predictions for your own 1 sq km patch of the world is amazing. So I can tell that in half an hour, the rain I am now looking at will blow away and there will be sun. Now I like that - it means I can schedule the trip to the bank so that I have more chance to enjoy it.http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/know-when-sun-is-coming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-6360802317699937532Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:52:00 +00002010-11-11T02:59:08.328-08:00http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/trouble-with-statistics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-7963822407002195457Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:24:00 +00002010-11-10T06:32:12.145-08:00This great italian scheme for paying for your holiday by barter rather than cash (where else but Italy) got me thinking that we could manage a week in Rome with a mixture of English lessons, house exchange (we do that already) and an offer to cook delicious polish or scottish food for the guests. What a fun way to really connect with the people you stay with. And an economic crisis beater too....http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/stay-for-free-in-italy-thanks-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-3059356956401383687Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:51:00 +00002010-11-08T03:54:09.687-08:00This blog in Le Monde Diplomatique takes the french marxian dialectic brilliantly to Amazon's business model. Huge profits for the owners, exploitation and precarious conditions for the workers, they say. Stimulating perspective when all we usually here from Anazon analysts is about long tails and rights deals. Why don't we get this kind of journalism in Britain ?http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/next-time-you-buy-at-amazon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-127521065685363619Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:07:00 +00002010-11-03T06:13:14.945-07:00I am trying to get in gear for my session at Berlin Educa 2010 on 2nd Dec. The Daily Content has to be about the process of producing THe Daily What the online news service for schools. My idea is to get the delegates to work a bit and make that day's edition.http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/berlin-conference.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-5944393676735447256Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:47:00 +00002010-11-03T05:50:24.567-07:00I got an olive tree coming to me in the post for a spcial sunny spot and a hope to reach the spring again in few months. Working many days a week in my garden office, I count on it to get me inspired at least half the year !http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/olive-tree.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-6037022204552345595Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:29:00 +00002010-11-01T06:31:24.952-07:00While thinking about avatars, faces and the like, I have to post this witch picture - a little skillful painting to turn an angel into a wicked witch !http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/bewitching.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-5459980760496196783Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:25:00 +00002010-11-01T06:28:00.196-07:00<!--[if !mso]> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false false EN-GB ZH-TW X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/avatars-lift-off.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-3883097160159749055Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:12:00 +00002010-11-01T03:28:21.291-07:00Scotland Social MediaThese guys have tried to launch a distinctively Scots take on social media.We covered it in The Daily What as a police storyI'm more interested in the Oxfam Scotland thinking on making a citizen journo network. This would really work for a country with a passionate connection at grassroots to overseas development.Oxfam Scotland&#39;s plans for a citizen journalist network - Be Good Be Social 27thhttp://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/11/is-there-scottish-new-media-scene.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-1724932115870979675Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:05:00 +00002010-10-25T14:07:09.295-07:00Don't Get Website, Get TwitteringMy fine local organic shopkeeper, Costas of The Olive Tree, reports he has spent £1000 building his website.What business will it bring him ? And what grief and effort to keep up to date.When a simple twitter broadcast daily to the customers will be fresh and keep them coming in.Time to bail out of websites for most of us.http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/10/dont-get-website-get-twittering.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713245261570022667.post-5743928949038868314Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:02:00 +00002010-06-08T21:08:12.208-07:00Africa School TechnologyE-learning Africa Conference - presenting a session in Lusaka last week. My wife comes for the trip, and sets up a few day's teaching exchange in a Lusaka orphanage school run by SOS Childrens Villages. On day 2: "come to this school with me you will learn more than at a hundred conferences"Correct. The technology and hardware infrastructure is good. In many ways, better than the London school http://messyplaymessywork.blogspot.com/2010/06/african-school-visit-worth-several.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Haggard)0