Author: Bartosz Paszcza Throughout the last few months, the Digichamps have taken part in a wide variety of projects. One of the goals of our work is to help incorporate various online tools that help to make online projects more responsive. As an example, Tim and Sylvian built a more “social[…]
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Life as a full-time DigiChamp
Author: Alex Hovden Over the summer months I have been employed by the Web Science Institute here at the University to support the building of their online presence. From blogging and tweeting, to meeting various individuals from the central Comms and Marketing team, I have been doing it all! Essentially I[…]
Read more#StargazingLIVE at the University of Southampton
Hi! I’m Shaz, one of the new digichamps that joined this year and I was lucky enough to help out at the Stargazing Live event hosted by Southampton University’s Physics and Astronomical Society. Working as a Digichamp for the first time at such a big event, was pretty daunting, but[…]
Read moreOne Big Day: Creative DigiFest 3
Author: Renaldo Bernard Today was the Creative DigiFest 3 event in Southampton at Grand Harbour Hotel. Photos taken when it was just started, The event began with the competition pitches by Chris Phethean first competition pitch and Caroline Halcrow from Web Science, students here in University of Southampton. After that Gary Wills presented Blupoint an outstanding[…]
Read more#SxSC3 Goes down a Storm @GHSouthampton
Author: Gareth Beeston The day kicks-off with a fantastic introduction by our very own @doclorraine who explains the impact of digital businesses in the development of the digital economy. Following this, Dr. Lorraine Warren introduces the first of the dragons den pitches with @Cpheth presenting shortly. Chris Phethean storms his presentation,[…]
Read moreGetting Started with WordPress
Author: Tim O’Riordan Found Blur Motion/ilouque ©2011/CC BY 2.0 Earlier this month, Dr Lisa Bernasek, Academic Coordinator for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies approached us with a request for assistance. Like many academics who recognise the benefits blogging in support of learning, Lisa had included a blog post writing requirement as[…]
Read moreThe Digital Literacies Conference 2013 #SotonMOOC
Author: Gareth Beeston The #SotonMOOC conference held today was host to a number of prestigious people from UK businesses and Universities, hoping to debate the challenges involved with building, moderating and launching a MOOC. The event was kicked off by our very own @HughDavis who spoke about the projects in which[…]
Read moreWhat an Art! #NAOMB is an absolute hit
Author: Gareth Beeston The New Art of Making Books Conference (#NAOMB) was an absolute hit, showing the amazing variety in which a ‘book’ can be presented. Danny Aldred (@danny_aldred) kicks off the conference with a few perspectives on books, giving an insight into what be constituted as a book, determining the[…]
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