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Apparently I’m going to live to 110….

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Category : Just for Fun

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.

Icebreaker Exercise: Twittering at #medialit

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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.

  • 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!)
    • #whyruhere: why are you on this course?
    • #mediaexperience: are you a newbie or lots of experience
    • #christianjourney: can you sum it up or give us one highlight?
    • #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 per pair
  • Tweets: 3 minutes per pair
  • Read out Bios (around 10 minutes)

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/

Where have I been?

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Category : Christian, Digital Media, Event

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!

Cows, Canada

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Category : Just for Fun

Twudder

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.

Portwiture

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Category : Digital Media

I talked about Portwiture on my Digital Fingerprint blog, and in writing about it for Super Fun Days Out Adrenablog, thought I’d check again to see what I’d been tweeting about – and just thought this was so colourful that I’d put it up! Not sure what the Coke bottles are about – don’t like the stuff – even when it’s “good for you”!
P.S. In case you’re wondering, I chose pair 4: as my specs, should be ready by 17th October!

Twazzup

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Category : Digital Media

Interesting tool for identifying who you interact with most (recently) on Twitter:Twazzup.

drbexl: Highly Influential

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Category : Digital Media

According to Topsy, I’m highly influential on Twitter! Be interesting to see their rationale for that, as my other Twitter feeds are not demonstrating the same accolade! Nice.
Well, I guess I do spend quite some time on Twitter… I get all my news, etc. from there!

“Calm Down and Carry On” campaign for @drbexl

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Category : Digital Media

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!

[17th July] It worked, I’m back on Twitter @drbexl!

Dr Bex Lewis, awaiting resurrection… of @drbexl on Twitter!

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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!!

Check out #freedrbexl!

Winchester Web Scene

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Category : Digital Media, Winchester

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…