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Citizensheep's audio on Audiofarm

  • August 17, 2009 at 3:02 pm
  • Categories: Sheep Dip,Social media,tools

  • I’ve been lookikng for a good audio sharing service for a while, and stumbled across Audiofarm. You can choose to grant your files ‘preview only’ playback or Creative Commons licencing. It would be great if the site also offered some annotation features and codes for embedding into web pages as well as the sharing options [...]

Easy YouTube caption creator

  • July 13, 2009 at 3:56 pm
  • Categories: Accessibility,Sheep Dip,tools

  • I haven’t tried it yet, but this could make the creation of web accessible video much easier: it purports to enable you to add transcripts to your YouTube videos. Thanks to Andy Mabbett for alerting me to it. Visit Easy YouTube caption creator

What is RSS?

  • March 4, 2009 at 9:20 am
  • Categories: Social media,tools

  • Explaining to the uninitiated why web feeds are useful is something a lot of us find hard to do. So here I’ve attempted to draw an analogy: with fish. I’m not actually going to try and explain what RSS is (or equivalents such as Atom), because it’s a bit technical and has a confusing history [...]

Manage your online reputation

  • February 9, 2009 at 6:11 pm
  • Categories: Education,Social media,tools

  • It frustrates me that organisations still seem to think they can manage their reputations by controlling what information is spread about them. This is simply not possible anymore, and attempting it just makes you seem heavy-handed and out of touch. Far better to listen to what other people are saying about you and engage when [...]

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