Do you know? Is it: A) During the hours of your employment? B) Only when you are using your employer’s equipment? C) At any time when you are in their employment? If you’re not sure, just let us know…or check out one of our media law courses! Read More
Category: E-learning courses
Using the semicolon to power your writing
The semicolon is in your tool box of punctuation: use it to improve the power of your writing. It is heavier than a comma and lighter than a full stop. Here is one way to use it: As a divider in lists which are long and complex: “Three of them went on the picnic: Richard, Read More
Stunning RoI for elearning
I’ve got a simple, solid argument that training professional and managerial staff provides a good return on investment (RoI). Put more in and you get more out. That’s a controversial statement. Even more controversial is my claim that you need only a 0.33% increase in productivity to justify buying some elearning courses. There are hundreds of ways Read More
Question of the week: who owns the copyright? Answer: your employer!
Gasps of dismay this week from delegates at my copyright course. It always gets them talking when I say that their employer owns the copyright in their work. Even when they do the same work as at work but in their own time and at home. Photographer forced to destroy images There’s a famous case Read More
Take control of your development with “My CPD”
Give something a three-latter acronym and it sounds important and powerful: HMG, USD, CID, and JCB. Then there’s CPD: not the carbon disclosure project but Continuing Professional Development. In reality, training while in employment. Many professional bodies have CPD requirements for their members: they have to keep their noses to the grind stone by keeping their knowledge and Read More
A UK internet troll seriously damaged the reputation of a US lawyer, the High Court decided yesterday. Jason Page put a false review on Google maps about the Colorado lawyer Timothy Bussey, the Court decided. Under the new law Page now faces a £100,000 bill after losing the case. It is one of the first Read More
Employer owns copyright in tweets, if done for work
Who owns the copyright to your Twitter content, if you are in employment? That’s the question we were asked this week. Employer owns it And the answer is: if you are tweeting for your company then the company owns it. Just as it owns the copyright in other content you generate. If you have a private Read More
Quiz your readers
When we are putting together our e-learning courses we spend a lot of time thinking about how best to get the information across. We’ve always used quizzes so that learners can check how much they’ve taken in. So it’s good to see new research highlighted by web guru Jakob Neilsen in his blog that shows Read More
NEW online Certificates for journalists
We’re really excited about our new partnership with the Professional Publishers Association (PPA) to offer two new journalism certificates. Here’s what’s happening: We at ContentETC have partnered with the PPA to develop and launch two new journalism certificates, available online and designed for writers and journalists who want to earn recognised journalism credentials. These new Read More
It’s imagination Jim, just not as we need it.
So, Eric Schmidt of google reveals how we are finally catching up with the future, as immortalised by Star Trek!! He’s telling us that in a few months time, users of Android (google) smartphones will “…be able to speak into the phone in one language, and have the phone read back the translation aloud in another language.” [remember Read More