MediaSnackers

Where are they?

(WORLD) Mark and I were discussing recently why Twitter is not popular with young people.

Here’s our take:

• it’s not feature-rich: sure you can add friends and follow plus DM or reply but apart from the 140 character update option you can’t do anything else (in comparison to other social networking sites young people populate)
• the service exists: it’s fast been integrated into the aforementioned sites as standard
• it’s already populated by adults: it’s the same as young people getting into Bowls (even if it was fun it’s already dominated by another generation so not cool by association)

NB: I tweeted the same question out to my network and here’s what @m_as, @innovativeteach, @davestacey, @timdavies, @rohdesign, @ianbetteridge, @c_and_t think.

Leave a comment below on your take on why young people are not all over Twitter…

MediaSnackers on Twitter

European youth trend report.

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

Andrew Vassallo works for Trendwolves as a youth trend researcher discussing here the recently released European youth trend report (focussing on 14 to 25 year olds).

0.00—0.18 intro
0.19—1.16 Trendwolves
1.17—2.11 European youth trend report background
2.12—4.27 top lines results
4.28—5.50 flavour of the results
5.51—7.04 other findings and how it relates to companies/organisation
7.05—10.25 new trends and differences between countries
10.26—12.20 the future (Youthwatching)
11.35—11.44 thanks and outro

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Film Review.

(GUE) Short film review of our time over in Guernsey delivering our two day social media course to the islands youth service team:

‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating’ as they say and for me the proof of a good training course is in how much the ideas it generates get used afterwards. Since our Mediasnackers training our staff have: had a group of young people using their mobile phones / cameras to record evidence of their work, produced a Capzles presentation on a new project, set up a webcam link on Skype for future staff meetings and discussed using wikis for updating of our database records. With all of this done in less than a week I’d say that pudding has well and truly been eaten!

Dave Le Feuvre, Head of Guernsey Youth Service

Guernsey YS Part One

MediaSnackers Training

A masterclass session.

(WAL) I’m just down the road at the fantastic Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay delivering a 90minutes masterclass session at the Association of British Orchestras Annual Conference.

(My session has the very grand title of “Leading By Example: Digital Delivery”—cool!)

The MediaSnackers session at our recent conference was a universal success and by far and away the most popular and talked about session of the three days. We are already looking at how to use them more and will not only be passing on their tips to members but will be trying to use them ourselves! Extremely well pitched and the amount of ground covered in just 90 minutes was astounding and proof that the little things that can make a big difference do not require great technical know how. Brilliant and we look forward to a continuing relationship. Thanks a million to DK and the team.

Keith Motson, Projects Manager, Association of British Orchestras

Related post: Classic FM Interview

MediaSnackers Masterclasses

Two mastclasses.

(GBR) Back in my old stomping ground of Taunton in Somerset delivering a couple of masterclasses for the Somerset Connexions service as part of an internal event.

Thank you DK for a very informative and challenging Masterclass which was delivered in a professional manner. It posed many questions and moved us forward in appreciating the impact of social media on our work.

Mark Morris, Information & Marketing Manager, Connexions Somerset

MediaSnackers Speaking/Masterclass

The hub for learning and virtual worlds podcast series.

(WORLD) The twenty seventh RezEd podcast, produced by MediaSnackers with Global Kids.

Robin Harper is Vice President of Marketing and Community Development for Second Life and is stepping down this month, talking here about the growth of educational uses of their virtual world and the challenges and developments ahead.

0.00—0.24 intro
0.25—1.45 intro to Robin Harper of Linden Labs
1.46—4.04 overview from Robin
4.05—5.03 campus Second Life programme
5.04—5.50 values educators bring
5.51—9.39 the educational community review
9.40—11.39 surprises
11.40—13.06 hopes and challenges ahead
13.07—13.30 thanks
13.31—18.20 Barry and Amira gives a first year review of RezEd plus the future developments
21.52—22.01 outro

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Another gig.

(JER) Whilst I’m on the island Jersey Youth Service have invited me in today to deliver a little masterclass for their staff.

Going to be fun as ever.

It felt like we were all blown away at the end of presentation with how much could be done and how far we had to go to get there…but slowly over the last few months people have been using mind mapping tools, using videos and mobile phones, thinking about how can we communicate this to the ‘create’ and ‘connect’ generation. We have a web based survey for all youth service users coming up during May, have set up an YS IT reference group to grapple with how to use all these ‘cool’ tools and are currently working our way through how we can best use social networking sites within the service…so we are still blown away but now we are also inspired!

Mark Renouf, Area Youth Officer

MediaSnackers Speaking/Masterclass

MediaSnackers return!

(JER) Fantastic to be invited back to Jersey after delivering the keynote here in September last year for their E-Learning Conference.

Today I’m doing something similar for those teachers and educators who missed it and hopefully hearing about their forays into social media and e-learning since my last visit.

Related gig: Jersey E-Learning Conference

MediaSnackers Speaking

The hub for learning and virtual worlds podcast series.

(WORLD) The twenty sixth RezEd podcast, produced by MediaSnackers with Global Kids.

Anne Collier is Editor of NetFamilyNews and founder and executive director of its parent organization, Net Family News, Inc. talking here about the Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report.

0.00—0.24 intro
0.25—2.11 RezEd news with Rik and Amira at Global Kids (any news or events can be submitted here)
2.12—2.24 intros
2.25—6.31 background of Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report
6.32—8.29 what was Annes role and what was specifically discussed
8.30—10.54 what the report recommended
10.55—14.04 actual vs perceived
14.05—15.36 preferred future action in this space
15.37—15.45 thanks
15.46—18.20 Rik and Amira detailing the upcoming events for the RezEd community (any news or events can be submitted here)
18.21—18.29 outro

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Quick review.

(GBR) Yesterday we delivered a fun and interactive internal event for BT introducing and exploring the breadth and depth of social media plus providing four masterclass sessions detailing the practical applications of this stuff.

Here’s a video review of the event which was attended by over 100 staff (in person and virtually) across varied departments and global offices:

MediaSnackers delivered thought provoking, highly relevant keynote and master class sessions to a variety of BT staff today. Lots of food for thought for everyone who attended; it will certainly make us look closely at how we engage and interact internally as well as with our customers and suppliers, including what more we can do to engage the youth generation. Highly recommended!

Ria Kearney, BT Corporate Responsibility

There were also some tweets from attendees: Martin Faux tweeted here and here, Ben Scowen tweeted this, Anne Bailey tweeted here plus Ian Betteridge tweeted this and posted a pic here.

Related post: BT Internal Event Part One