Month: August 2009

Social media in Africa.

(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.

Linda Raftree is the Social Media and New Technology Advisor for Plan International focussed on West Africa (you can follow her work on her blog.

0.00—0.23 intro
0.23—1.43 what is Plan International and Linda’s role
1.44—2.56 social media use internally
2.57—5.57 social media use in the field (Virtual Villages
5.58—7.30 barriers / hurdles of adoption
7.31—9.13 implementation
9.14—10.04 future
10.05—10.27 thanks and outro

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Riffing on the approach to take with this social media stuff.

(GBR) After keynoting the second day of the Shift Happen 2.0 Conference the other month, I was interviewed by lovely guy named Ian Aspin. This week the resulting video appeared on his Really Good Thinking blog.

Even though the context of the questions was around arts and cultural organisations, the answers I gave can be transferable across all sectors and industries:

Thanks Ian.

MediaSnackers Speaking/Masterclass

Lovely Scrummy training.

(WAL) We're in Cardiff at the funky offices of Cyfle, a training company for the Welsh Television, Film and Interactive Media Industry (amongst other things).

After a little orientation session with them last week we're back delivering a days training.

An excellent day of inspirational training! MediaSnackers delivered an energetic and challenging itinerary of knowledge share via creative missions that enabled Cyfle staff to fully interact with the exciting world of Social Media, whilst demonstrating the simplicity of digital tools to create stories to tell the world.

Gareth I Davies, Manager of New Media and Animation

MediaSnackers Training

The hub for learning and virtual worlds monthly podcast series.

(WORLD) The thirty eighth RezEd monthly podcast, produced by MediaSnackers with Global Kids.

Featuring a discussion detailing the uses and background of Project Wonderland plus a quick tour of Kidscom.com.

0.00—0.24 intro
0.25—4.09 RezEd news with Amira and Krista at Global Kids (any news or events can be submitted here)
4.10—5.32 intros to Project Wonderland and Nicole Yankelovich and
5.33—6.03 Kevin Roebuck and Sun Microsystems
6.04—6.42 learning through new mediums
6.43—7.40 why are Sun interested?
7.41—9.06 what the Wonderland team does
9.07—10.28 timeline of development
10.29—13.15 intro Warren Sheaffer from St. Paul College and his project
13.16—14.37 challenges in implementation
14.38—16.18 student experience
16.19—18.51 other initiatives
19.25—22.05 intro Matt Schmidt at University of Missouri and iSocial
22.06—24.51 other advantages
24.52—26.51 final shout-outs, thanks / outro
26.52—27.54 intros to Jori Clark is from Kidscom.com
27.55—28.38 real vs virtual
28.39—29.46 who the space is for
29.47—30.29 what will parents/educators learn from the space
30.30—30.37 thanks / outro
30.38—32.16 Amira and Krista detailing the upcoming events for the RezEd community (any news or events can be submitted here)
32.17—32.24 outro

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