links for 2010-01-14

"UoScampusM is a unique new mobile application for students featuring an integrated suite of university services. It lets students receive University information direct to their mobile phone."

Hell yeah, Lazer Eyes likes coffee!

"When I put the slides for the talk together on Monday we had 500 downloads – by the time I gave the talk yesterday afternoon we'd had 900! The extra publicity given to it by featuring on the University home page for the last few days had obviously had an effect. The split between iPhone and iPod touch users is about 70% iPhone, 30% iPod touch. Surprising number of iPod touches – and that sort of device never features in our surveys of what students have and yet they're obviously using them to access our services via wireless."

Our home page aims to represent the full range of activities undertaken by the University involving our students, staff, alumni, partners and the local and global communities.

To achieve this, we welcome suggestions for home page features from anyone connected to the University.

Not all events or stories will be suitable for the home page – some might be better suited to either of our regular staff publications or promotion with the help of our media team.

THE people of West Lancashire can have their say at a major event at Edge Hill University.
A “Face the People Event” has been arranged to be held on Wednesday, March 10 at the university’s Wilson Centre.

Looks like a peak of around 100,000 visits a day – considerably more than Edge Hill!

"Three lecturers at Edge Hill University who claimed that changes to their contracts amounted to unfair dismissal lost their cases at a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal. The three were test cases for a group of 68 claims backed by the University and College Union."

“information and communication technology (ICT) including business applications system support & development, professional ICT, operational ICT, help desk and support, technical ICT support, print and reprographic and schools ICT; customer access and customer services including web, telephone, face to face; human resources (HR) including HR advice, transactional HR and payroll processing; pensions scheme administration services…. strategic services; programme management services; programme development services; project development services, project implementation services and project delivery services.”

"The estimated spend of the University of Central Lancashire in relation to the Core Services and Additional Services will be in the region of 10 000 000 GBP per annum. The estimated spend of Lancaster University in relation to the Core Services and Additional Services will be in the region of 10 000 000 GBP to 12 000 000 GBP per annum."

The fight back begins.

Facebook-acknowledge-world-outside-Facebook-shock!

Gallery of designs.

Very impressive new search system using panels of different types of content, ordered according to relevance. Cool, addressable URLs. Currently live for about 11,000 terms.

Shame it costs money.

With a list of barcode apps and other stuff.

Tesco Mobile cheapest overall.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to look around the inside of a fridge? No?

"Around 2,500 Scouts and leaders are braving the sub-zero temperatures at a winter camp at the the Scout movement's national campsite in Essex."

All we had to do was generate some attention. We had three things going for us:
1. We had enough resources in one place. Our media team members and youth participants were gathered together, allowing us to fully exploit the circumstances.
2. We had a fantastically well organised and very visual event. ‘Schools close but thousands of Scouts camp out in snow’ seemed to surprise most journalists.
3. Our media contacts were likely to be receptive to the story after a fair few days of snow and not a lot else going on.

"Some 2,500 hammered tent pegs into the frozen ground at Gilwell Park near Chingford and slept under canvas."