Website Sustainability

I have a variety of places I use when reading around for this blog but I would like to highlight the five best. 1. Creative Bloq ( http://www.creativebloq.com/tag/web-design ) In particular the web-design part of the blog. The articles can well written with a strong practical flavour, and written by practitioners for practitioners.  2. Moz.com ( https://moz.com/blog ) This is a three-in-one source from Moz and yes they are promoting their product but that is ok, they provide some insightful posts around Search Engine Optimisation and Social Media Marketing. Both are important for sustainable websites - if people can't find the site you have a problem. Earlier I described it as a three-in-one site, there are three blogs there all very much worth a read. 3. RazorSocial ( http://www.razorsocial.com/blog/ ) Again it is promoting services; but it does provide a nice collection of easy to read articles in a similar vein to Moz. 4. JISC The original project that started...

An interesting blog post from Universities UK on Open Data at http://blog.universitiesuk.ac.uk/2014/06/24/creating-value-open-data Open data, the principle and practice of making data available for anyone to use, for any purpose, at no cost has the potential to make a major impact on the world around us. Given these prospects, the UK higher education sector is already starting to get on board. A number of universities (Southampton, Oxford, and the Open University, to name a few) have taken on the agenda, and are rapidly developing tools and practices. Sector agencies and bodies such as JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency), the Research Councils, and the Royal Society are also working in the same direction. To read more: http://blog.universitiesuk.ac.uk/2014/06/24/creating-value-open-data Posted with Blogsy