I've just been looking over a lot of the social media stuff I've been working on for the last few weeks and suddenly realised that I've been going against my own advice - the blog has indeed been quiet, eerily so for the last few weeks!
So, in an effort to put things right I've shifted my blogging activity over to posterous.com which should enable us to post quickly and efficiently via web mail, mobile phone and utilising their very cool bookmarking button. I reccomend checking it out.
Posterous is free (for the time being) and enables instant publishing to a variety of platforms including facebook, twitter etc as well as the blog over on blogger. I really like this idea of easy insatant publishing - very much the "one button" approach I've been looking for.
So what's been happening?
Well, quite a lot:
Our train the trainer digital storytelling sessions have been quite a success with around 25 people trained up and ready to go in digital storytelling, including some who have already organised some DS sessions. I think that with this approach we are able to build capacity on the ground and reach a wider audience in order to help them get the most out of digital technologies. I'd like to thank everyone involved over the last month or so for their enthusiasm and fabulous stories which you can see over on the storytelling space.
We've also been getting a great response from some of our quick introduction workshops aimed at getting potential participants to get what they want out of DI by using digital photography to help tell their stories about how they feel about technologies.
I'll post some of our presentations and other resources here very soon.
Leanne has been a great asset to the project during the last 8 months or so and brought a cheery enthusiasm and creative approach to all of our work. Plus of course she managed to put up with me for all that time.
I'm sure I echo the feeling of the stortelling centre and the wider partnership as well as all the community groups we've worked with over the months in wishing Leanne all the best with her new venture and we look forward to hearing the stories very soon. Thanks butt!!
On a related note we do have a new member of satff starting in August so I'm very much looking forward to working with Angharad and continuing to develop the creative and happy approach that Leanne has left behind.
