me.edu.au will soon include a blog as significant new tool. This will coincide with me.edu.au moving out of beta version. me.edu.au is a professional networking service and provides a simple and easy to use service to connect people of similar interests. The blog will allow users to go into more detail about their […]
Author Archives: John Travers
What’s busy in me.edu.au?
January 23, 2008 – 8:43 am
Since me.edu.au (beta) is still in its early days of growth it is too early to tell how members will use the service, but we can report on early developments. In Communities we can measure number of members in a Community, number of contributions and visitors’ time viewing a page.
The busiest Community is Beginning Teachers, […]
Communities - some enhancements
January 11, 2008 – 1:11 pm
The Communities in me.edu.au has had a couple of improvements. Firstly, the tag cloud that shows the top 100 Communities now takes level of activity as well as number of members into account, so the relative size is a closer reflection of a Community’ level of lively-ness. As the amount of activity increases the difference […]
ME open; how are you?
January 9, 2008 – 3:30 pm
me.edu.au is surprisingly open to linking. The Digital Storytelling community is at http://www.me.edu.au/c/Digital%20Storytelling, http://www.me.edu.au/p/jtravers goes to me, Web2ools community is here: all without logging in.
So it is really easy to promote a Community or an individual profile by sharing addresses. Already some of the Communities are generating a lively set of links […]
Participation: what can we expect?
January 4, 2008 – 11:01 am
Now that me.edu has been running for several weeks we can start to get a feel for how it works. Since all users of edna services are automatically registered with me.edu we cannot take the nearly 2,000 current members as meaning that all these are active users. However a large number of members have indicated […]
How to add feeds and why
December 18, 2007 – 12:40 pm
Feeds are unfamiliar to many regular internet users, but they are one of the most powerful features of me.edu.au because they allow a member to automatically display in their Public Profile a summary of all their current online activity - blogs, social bookmarking wiki pages etc.
Here is an audio-visual tutorial on how to bring feeds […]
Taking off with Communities
December 18, 2007 – 10:37 am
In the first few days since the launch of me.edu.au a lot of people have established and joined Communities as shown in the partial view of the tag-cloud above. One of the busiest is Digital Storytelling. Most of the larger Communities have ten or more members but few have comments so far.
The two options for […]
What have you been doing?
December 8, 2007 – 7:25 am
As we explore the test version of me.edu it is becoming clearer what me.edu is all about. (Another reminder that doing is more powerful than just thinking.)
The central theme is in the banner: What I’ve been doing. A good example of this at work is Mike Sefang’s me.edu. It feeds in a constant stream of […]
me.edu, a greenfield project
December 4, 2007 – 10:06 am
As me.edu progresses briskly towards launch in less than two weeks, we are conscious that this is a greenfields project, exploring unknown territory. We are not aware of a service quite like it, so we are very interested in user suggestions for the direction the service should take.
The explosive growth of social networking proves that […]
Test me.edu.au now available
November 27, 2007 – 7:24 pm
On Thursday the 6th of December the uat test me.edu.au environment will be updated with a range of fixes. Between the 7th of December and 13th December there will be testing occurring. All going well we expect this release to go live on the weekend of the 15th of December – more information […]
