Category: social media
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Media Kit for Activists
Here is a wonderful short documentary produced by Andrew Garton about a media training kit for NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) and other civil society community groups. (The video is self-explanatory). ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit The ItrainOnline MMTK is a growing collection of “workshop kits” for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and…
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New Australian Video Distribution System
http://www.peekvid.com/ Here is an new video distribution and indexing system from Australia. It's not quite YouTube , and it's not quite Australian (ie. if you minus North America there isn't much going on), but hey, it's a start. It would be good to see one of these services take a stricter editorial line to add…
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Digital Storytelling
(from the Kelvin Grove Urban Village project ). Digital Stories are short, personally narrated multimedia tales. In a workshop run by specialist trainers from the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, people from a wide range of age groups and experience levels worked together to produce digital stories related to the history of the Kelvin Grove…
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Web 2.0: a pattern library
What Web 2.0 is (from webmonkey ). There is a powerful idea floating around that the internet is moving into a more advanced stage of maturity, a new paradigm called Web 2.0. There's also a lot of hype flying around the idea, as well as a backlash from internet folks who see Web 2.0 as…
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The Internet is our future: BBC Chief
(from The Age newspaper ). BBC director-general Mark Thompson wants to take advantage of the latest technology to turn one of the world's foremost broadcasters into a truly global media brand. He insists that the Internet is the future for the 84-year-old British Broadcasting Corporation but warns that it has to be globally relevant to…
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The Social Networking Goldrush
I discovered a very interesting opensourse 'social software' service called elgg.net today that on the surface, appears to be much better than that ugly old beast 'myspace' (elgg.net has a focus upon learning). This article by one the the writers on the elgg.net system, Ben Ward, tells it all. Whose Space? In April 2005,…