Digital Photography Course PART 4

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Here's the PDF our Digital Photography course Part 4 - Social Photography: Tagging Photos & Digital Graffiti.

If you want to download it click the link below which will take you to scribd.com and download to your computer from there.

Digital Photography Course PART4

Social Media Workshop for TPAS Cymru Conference

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GEECS jointly delivered a Social Media workshop at the TPAS Cymru (Tenant Participation Advisory Service) conference on Friday with Novas Scarman, one of our Communities 2.0 project partners.

The session focused on the benfits of social media, and used Tumblr - a powerful & simple personal publishing platform - as an example of the scope and potential of using social media. To support the workshop we created this blog http://tpascymru.tumblr.com/ which demonstrates posts of all kinds, incorporates an RSS feed which posts to the blog automatically, and includes information on using Tumblr & its benefits. We posted to the blog during the session to demonstrate the speed, simplicity & effectiveness of the platform.

It was an enjoyable session to deliver - many of the participants weren't well versed in the potential of social media, but were enthused by the session and left intending to make better use of the tools that are freely available to them.

Digital Photography Course PART 3

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Here's the PDF our Digital Photography course Part 3 - Social Photography, Introducing Flickr, Creating a Flickr account & Flickr Groups.

If you want to download it click the link below which will take you to scribd.com and download to your computer from there.

Digital Photography Course PART3 PPT

20 Things I Learned About Browsers & the Web

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I just came across this site, 20 Things I Learned about Browsers & the Web and thought I should share it here. Beautifully designed and clearly written, it's a fantastic 'everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask' guide to the web.

The guide has been produced by Google Chrome, and is an authoritative and comprehensive manual on how the web works, and from a digital inclusion perspective I think it will prove to be a hugely valuable resource for Communities 2.0 beneficiaries.

I do recommend you at least take a look - it's so well designed you'll be reading and learning before you know!

Digital Photography Course PART 2

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Here's the PDF our Digital Photography course Part 2 - Photo editing, corrections and fun stuff with GIMP

If you want to download it click the link below which will take you to scribd.com and download to your computer from there.

Digital Photography Course PART2

Our Bridgend...continued

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Continuing from Angharad's post regarding the ourbridgend.com site, we were in Bridgend town centre on Saturday at the just@sk project running a workshop aimed at producing content for the site - specifically some digital stories.

The map over on our bridgend.com has been developed by NativeHQ and the National Theatre of Wales who have been keen to extend the reach and remit of community theatre by investing time and energy into a social media strategy that seems to be paying dividends at the moment.

For us at GEECS, the potential of the map presents us with a great opportunity to continue to develop this resource as a tool for digital inclusion workshops: the concept from the user point of view is so simple - pick a place and add your content, simple as that.

However, from a DI angle, there is so much potential not only to display user generated content that is not necessarily driven by workshop attendance but also to map activity at a national level.

The map has the potential for us to examine digital activity plus a chance to develop innovative and dynamic cross-project and inter-organisational data that can deliver sustainable DI activity based on communities of place.

Just a quick look at the map can stir stories based on place e.g. my first kiss or even as shown on the map "this is where i lost my gerbil down a drain".

This tool offers a powerful storytelling "jumping off" point, it can help participants to develop media rich content and post it quickly, plus perhaps most importantly, it promotes ownership and therefore a level of self-promotion and sustainability through a variety of social media platforms.

After the workshop on Saturday it is becoming apparent that the people involved see the relevance of this tool and posts are now appearing as far north as Caernarfon and Holyhead. I think it is this sense of relevance that creates a great opportunity to promote DI activity, after all, we all like to sit down and reminisce about the places we grew up, the places we went, the places that hold emotion and hold those stories of experience that prove themselves to be so content rich; not to mention the places of gossip of course!

Hopefully this map will be available for our use and development soon.

As an extra I'd just like to extend our thanks for inspiration, help and vision to Tom, Guy, NTW and of course everyone who came on the weekend.

Meantime, if you're in Bridgend any time soon why not go along and see NTW's production Love Steals us from Loneliness running from October 7-16 in Hobos, Bridgend and then post your thoughts over on ourbridgend.com.

Meantime, check out some of the content from the weekend...(there's a story from me too, but you'll have to scroll north to Maesteg!)