Author Archives: Sue Beckingham

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About Sue Beckingham

An Associate Professor, National Teaching Fellow and Teaching and Learning lead for Computing and Digital Technologies at Sheffield Hallam University with a research interest in the use of social media in higher education.

Google+ one year on

Google+ has just celebrated it’s first birthday. It now boasts 250 million users, which although only a quarter of that of Facebook (which recently exceeded 900 million), is still a considerable number in such a short time. So what’s it all … Continue reading

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Social Media for the Terrified

This is  a presentation I gave at a conference earlier this year. The session was aimed at those who were new but intrigued with what social media might be about. This wasn’t so much a ‘how to use’ the individual … Continue reading

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Copyright

Sharing on social media websites is clearly seen as a positive step forward but we still need to be mindful of copyright and that we cannot just use somebody else’s work without permission. Where permission is granted then it is important to … Continue reading

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Welcome to SocialMedia4Us!

This is a blog about Social Media and will introduce you to some of the many social media tools there are now available. What is Social Media Social Media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies which allows the user … Continue reading

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