myResearchSpace

As I'm heading off to a new university, I thought I'd take a moment and officially close this blog. I've enjoyed posting and conversing about postgrad blogging and digital culture and hope that MyResearchSpace at some point re-emerges as a bit of a postgrad hub of interaction. If you're interested to know what I'm up to next, read this and you ...

Alex Halavais has posted a very useful set of Tips for academic job applications which, if you're even thinking about heading in that direction, you should read.  All the points are worth thinking about, but I thought I'd highlight two.  Firstly: Teach. Even for Research I universities, the committee usually wants some indication that ...

The talk I have during the PSA's Research week on 'Creating an Online Presence During Candidature' is now online, complete with slides and audio, thanks to Lectopia.  At 36:45 in to the presentation, I talk explicitly about MyResearchSpace and what it offers UWA's research students.  If you're not sure if you're getting ...

To do this, you can use Blog Pages. A blog page is like a blog post except they don’t normally feature in your posting list. 1.       Click on Control Panel and go to Manage ‘Joe Blogs’ Blog’ 2.       Create a new page(s). For your profile, you could create 2-3 pages. One that is ‘About ...

To enable anonymous comments on your blog, follow these steps: [1] go to your control panel by selecting Control Panel from the top menu. [2] Select Manage 'XXX's' Blog [3] Select Global Settings from the left hand menu [4] Select Advanced Post Settings [5] Change Allow Anonymous Users to Comment to yes [6] Click 'Save' You can also opt to ...

They have been switched on and I have added the CAPTCHA images to a number of the Blog themes - I will be doing the rest of the themes shortly. For enabling anonymous comments - I have written some instructions in the help forum

Anonymous comments (take 3): CAPTCHA, which stands for (C)ompletely (A)utomated (P)ublic (T)uring test to tell (C)omputers and (H)umans (A)part is a way of trying to limit spam on anonymous comments by adding an image of a word, letters or numbers that you have to enter before you can submit a comment: I have added this to my blog theme - the ...

There are 2 ways in which a photo can be added to a blog entry. The first is to add the image as an attachment to the blog entry and then in the text of the blog entry put ''[''ImageAttachment'']'' - without the quotes:    The other way is to use a photo that has been uploaded to your Gallery. In the blog entry, click the content ...

Warning: Segue into politics and digital communication... What is Facebook?  Should you care?  Does the fact that John Howard and Kevin Rudd (or their team) have Facebook pages mean anything about Australian politics in a digital era?  If any of these questions have perked your interest, click here.  (At the very least you ...

The ultimate in procrastination has hit MyResearchSpace as LOL CATS and the LOL CATS Buildr invades.  All it takes is a cute photo and a semi-witty uber-geeky tagline and you're all set ... No lecture given by postgraduates need ever lack geek humour again! :)