Posts Tagged ‘accounts’

Here’s where I’m not

Posted on May 7th, 2013 by Paul Stainthorp

I’ve deleted my accounts on a number of profile / social networking-type websites that I no longer have any need for, along with a number of sites that have recently, or are about to, go defunct.

I’ve removed all of the links below from the sidebar of my website.

If you can find a profile at any of these addresses, it’s not me.

  • ACM (http://member.acm.org/~pstainthorp)
  • Blogger (http://blogger.com/profile/09480156575692685770)
  • Delicious (http://delicious.com/pstainthorp)
  • Diaspora* (http://joindiaspora.com/u/pstainthorp)
  • Flavors (http://flavors.me/pstainthorp/)
  • Formspring (http://formspring.me/pstainthorp)
  • Foursquare (http://foursquare.com/pstainthorp)
  • Friendfeed (http://friendfeed.com/pstainthorp)
  • GetSatisfaction (http://getsatisfaction.com/people/pstainthorp)
  • Google+ (http://gplus.to/pstainthorp) – my actual Google profile is at: https://profiles.google.com/pstainthorp/
  • Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/pstainthorp)
  • Identi.ca (http://identi.ca/pstainthorp)
  • Lanyrd (http://lanyrd.com/people/pstainthorp)
  • Last.fm (http://www.last.fm/user/pstainthorp)
  • Library 2.0 (http://library20.org/profile/pstainthorp)
  • LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/pstainthorp)
  • Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/pstainthorp)
  • Paper.li (http://paper.li/pstainthorp)
  • PicPlz (http://picplz.com/user/pstainthorp)
  • Posterous (http://posterous.com/pstainthorp)
  • Rollyo (http://rollyo.com/pstainthorp)
  • Scribd (http://www.scribd.com/pstainthorp)
  • Yammer (https://www.yammer.com/lincoln.ac.uk/users/pstainthorp)
  • Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/pstainthorp)

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E-resources and the Portal: choosing the correct account prefix on Windows 7 computers

Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Paul Stainthorp

I’m getting an increasing number of queries from students with PCs and laptops running Microsoft Windows 7, who are having problems logging in to electronic resources via the University Portal.

When the user first tries to log in to a page under https://portal.lincoln.ac.uk/, the username field, by default, already has a user account prefix filled in (for example “USER-PC\“). This is incompatible with the Portal login which requires a username prefix of network\

(I’m calling it a “user account prefix”, but that’s almost certainly not the official Microsoft terminology for it.)

To get around this problem, the user has to click on the link to ‘Use another account‘, then enter the complete Portal username in the format: network\accountID, plus their normal University password. This will allow them to log in to the Portal and access any e-resources.

Screenshot of a Windows 7 login box

If their computer insists on automatically trying to log them in using their ‘local’ user account, they may first have to tell Internet Explorer to delete both cookies and saved passwords (under Tools > Internet Options), then try the Portal / Athens login page again.

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Moar Twitters

Posted on March 31st, 2011 by Paul Stainthorp

In December 2010, I found 26 Twitter accounts associated with the University of Lincoln. Here are a few more that have sprung up since then:

  1. * Lincoln_GD (@Lincoln_GD)
  2. *Lincoln Projects (@LincolnProjects)
  3. * Student as Producer (@studentproducer)
  4. * Uni Lincoln Cal (@unilincolncal)
  5. * UniLincolnAAD (@FacultyofAAD)

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Snow Larks. Or, an Exaltation of Twitter Accounts

Posted on December 1st, 2010 by Paul Stainthorp

Snowy branches in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, Wednesday 1 December 2010No school today, and the now-traditional Twitter winter games are being pursued, with British enthusiasm for discussing the weather undimmed by the transfer of medium. (Currently #uksnow LN9 6/10, by the way).

Special commendation to The Lincolnite (@thelincolnite) for doing a proper number on the various disruptions and cancellations. Great use of user-generated content, too. Frankly, they’ve put a number of more established media outlets in the shade. Only @BBCLincolnshire have been half as much use or as entertaining.

And on the subject of Twitter accounts: does anyone know why the University of Lincoln has sprouted so many? Some are “official”, others “unofficial” (heavy scare quotes – I don’t think ‘official’ really means anything on Twitter in the same way that it even does on Facebook – on Twitter, you’re only as reputable as your followers deem you to be). Others are very specialist (e.g. our Repository‘s Twitter feed), belong to the Students’ Union or to individual student societies (and are therefore editorially independent of the University), or are joke accounts.

But it does seem a lot for one modestly-sized university. Is this just the natural ecology of the thing – that accounts will proliferate and go extinct as needs and interests wax and wane? Or is it possible we’ve all got a bit carried away…? (Declaration of interest: I’m responsible for at least one of these.)

  1. * Uni. of Lincoln (@unilincoln)
  2. * Uni of Lincoln (@ULopendays)
  3. * Uni of Lincoln Comms (@WhatsOnLincoln)
  4. * UL Press Office (@lincolnlatest)
  5. * UL Update (@ulupdate)
  6. * Lincoln ISC [International Study Centre] (@lincolnisc) - edit: added 1 December 2010 @ 20:09; thanks, @jamesdoc
  7. * Riseholme College (@riseholmecolleg)
  8. * Uni of Lincoln Blogs (@ulblogs)
  9. * Lincoln Repository (@eprintslincoln)
  10. * Lincoln Media (@LincolnMedia)
  11. * Lisma Lumni [LSM alumni] (@LSMAlumni) – edit: added 1 December 2010 @ 20:09; thanks, @jamesdoc
  12. * Audio Production (@AudioProd_LSM) – edit: added 2 December 2010 @ 20:09; thanks, @AudioProd_LSM
  13. * LSJ [Lincoln School of Journalism] News (@LSJTweets)
  14. * [Lincoln Performing Arts Centre] (@lincolnLPAC)
  15. * UL Computing Society (@ulcomputing)
  16. * ULO [University of Lincoln Orchestra] (@ulorchestra)
  17. * Lincoln CU [Christian Union] (@ulcu)
  18. * Lincoln Sci-Fi [Society] (@lincolnscifi)
  19. * The Drama Society (@thedramasociety)
  20. * Lincoln SU [Students' Union] (@lincolnSU)
  21. * Bullet Magazine (@BulletMagazine)
  22. * The Linc (@thelinc)
  23. * Marie (@mht_marie), Jane (@mab_jane), and Sheila (@mab_sheila) …the voices of the lifts in two of our campus buildings. Yeah.

Any more for any more?

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