Follow our Network
Not if I keep staying up this late, I won’t!
Thanks to @adamswbrown for bringing this one to my attention – be interesting to know the stats used – all they had was access to Twitter account (so know the follower numbers), and had to input date of birth… try it yourself: Followerdeath.
Category : Christian, Event, Experimentation
Heard of Twitter? People moan “about what people had for breakfast”, but Stephen Fry – it’s called Twitter, not Erudite Thoughts… and in many ways is a relationship building tool… and how often will you meet with someone (in person) and dive into e.g. The Theory of Relativity without catching up a bit first… that’s how I use Twitter!
Now. Not going ONTO Twitter itself – it’s the concept/information rather than the mechanics we’re interested in today, instead, we’re using that indispensible tool – “pen & paper”… What we produce in our version of Twitter will be available on the walls so that we can remind ourselves who people are!
So – you will get to work with 5 other people, against a timer – I have an example of mine, which I filled in in around 10 minutes! Twitter is not always about thinking in great depth about what you write, but about ‘going with the moment’. The document.
So, timing? We have 40 minutes for this session, and want time to look and chat at the end… so it’s “quick & dirty” thoughts as my South African friend says! Work in pairs, as the timer goes, move onto someone else – and work together.
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-clock/full-screen/
Place images on the wall and make available throughout the course.
Twittering @ #MediaLit: Instructions
Not getting to “The Digital Revolution” til Thursday, but those of you familiar, please do engage. Social Media for the Scared coming up as our ice-breaker!
Heard of Twitter? People moan “about what people had for breakfast”, but Stephen Fry – it’s called Twitter, not Erudite Thoughts… and in many ways is a relationship building tool… and how often will you meet with someone and dive into e.g. The Theory of Relativity without catching up a bit first… that’s how I use Twitter!
Now. Not going ONTO Twitter itself – it’s the concept/information rather than the mechanics we’re interested in today, instead, we’re using that indispensible tool – “pen & paper”… What we produce in our version of Twitter will be available on the walls so that we can remind ourselves who people are!
So – you will get to work with 5 other people, against a timer – I have an example of mine, which I filled in in around 10 minutes! Twitter is not always about thinking in great depth about what you write, but about ‘going with the moment’.
· Username (the name you’d like to be known as this week)
· Bio (160 characters only, what words can sum you up)
· All tweets = 140 characters (the dashes have been counted out!)
o #whyruhere: why are you on this course?
o #mediaexperience: are you a newbie or lots of experience
o #christianjourney: can you sum it up or give us one highlight?
o #daftfact: something which will help us remember you
So, timing? We have 40 minutes for this session, and want time to look and chat at the end… so it’s “quick & dirty” thoughts as my South African friend says! Work in pairs, as the timer goes, move onto someone else – and work together.
· Intro (above): 5 minutes. QUESTIONS?
· Username/Bio: 10 minutes
· Tweets: 3 minutes each
· Circulation Time: 10 minutes
· (Slippage time: 3 mins)
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-clock/full-screen/
For the last 3 days I have been at Swanwick in Derbyshire, at the Church and Media Conference (my third time there!)… and I’m starting to create some blog entries on Digital Fingerprint, so check out the tag #cmn10!
I love watching the company “Cows“, who are based on Prince Edward Island (ringing any bells for you Anne of Green Gables lovers out there?), which started out as an ice cream shop, but so many people loved the subverted designs that the staff were wearing, that people kept asking to buy their t-shirts – so Cows now produces many clever designs. As I’ve been updating my Wishlist, these fit 2 of my current interests: Twitter and YouTube, and I think these would be awesome t-shirts to have! I ordered a skiing (tongue stuck to the pole) t-shirt many years ago, but it was always that bit too big… International postage wasn’t too bad.
Ha ha, bit of crowd-sourcing continuing (without success yet, but it’s got to happen sometime right!), using Paul Windo’s idea of #freedrbexl, started by @emptybelly, with @Ulfilas coming up with the most appropriate slogan!
Category : Digital Media
Still awaiting the un-suspension of my @drbexl account. Still can’t work out why it could possibly have been suspended, aside from the fact that I tweeted roughly every minute for certain sections of the conference! Got the conference guys starting a campaign – well, you never know!!
Proof positive I was there tonight (and I know, I have a bit of a backlog of other blog material on this blog). My other blog has gone crazy today after that New York Times article yesterday, and yes, I am behind on my tasks for today (and yes it’s nearly tomorrow)! See more about the Winchester Web Scene, formed in November 2008, growing monthly I do believe – not a networking business-card exchange kind of evening, but a chat with people who have shared interests – some coders, some developers, some content writers, some social media types…
on WTF (Church – wrong or right?)
on WTF (Church – wrong or right?)
on WTF (Church – wrong or right?) on Apparently I’m going to live to 110….