(Avast, me hearties, this is the last of the pirate postings. Just be glad they weren’t podcasts 😉
So the other ‘mashups’ itch I’ve been wanting to scratch recently revolves around events listings, specifically a list of ed tech conferences that’s been around for a few years. Now before ye raise the topsails and give chase, hear me out – the landlubber who created and maintains this list every year is to be much praised, as I have done so in the past, as are the folks at CIDER for posting it as HTML.
But in this age of participatory media and user generated content, does it make any sense for lists like these to get created and maintained by one person, in a Word document?
Aye, you say, but it was probably the easiest tool at hand for what was a selfless act of giving back to the community. Right you are; but howseabout I shows ya how to take this page, database-enable it and allow others to add to new events to it in about 5 minutes with free, easy-to-use web-based tools. Come aboard all ye who’s coming aboard… Continue reading “Heave ho, scallywags, there’s events listings o’er thar to liberate”