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The amazing Mobbs team delivered a useful session of the Graduate School Media Zoo workshop on Social Media and Social Networking in the research world on Thursday 4th Feb. Resources discussed with particular interest included netvibes - the personalised homepage site; delicious - for bookmarking webpages of interest; and RSS feeds - see the previous entry on this blog. Attendees expressed interest in finding out more about specific technologies, so watch this space for details of new workshops on these topics coming up in the near future! The next workshop, on Second Life: a virtual research environment will take place on Tues 23rd February at 4pm in the Graduate School Reading Room.

Get your papers in for the Festival of Postgraduate Research . It's a great opportunity to present your research, meet other researchers and hone your presentation skills. Hurry though - the deadline is the 11th!

Workshops for postgraduate researchers, run by Student Development. Get your feed here! http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/sd/pgr/workshops

www.wordle.net A useful tool for turning text into a more visual format giving strongest emphasis to the most frequently used words. Enter text into a box on the wordle website and turn it into a tag cloud. I can see myself using this on articles!

The first day of the Learning Futures Festival Online has really convinced me of the benefit of online conferences. Not only can I attend sessions when I want, without having to spend a week away from work and family, but it's also possible to listen to missed sessions after they have finished, to submit questions in writing as well as orally, and to chat online with other participants about issues raised while the presentations are taking place. This is my first experience of an online conference, and I'm pleasantly surprised at how well it works! The platform for the conference, Elluminate, allows you to view slides and chat as well as hearing audio and watching a video of the presenter, as well as to interact with the speaker. My first impressions are that this is a very useful tool, especially for postgraduate conferences where students might have limited funds available for travel and accommodation. A great virtual conference experience without the inconvenience of attend...