"building the capacity of public media and technology organizations"
I have been busy researching the contents of my nonprofit's digital literacy toolkit, which includes the following: 1) model integrated use of collaborative/workflow tools (filesharing, scheduling, project and task planning, synchronous communication and whiteboard), 2) model use of media tools (podcasting, videoblogging, digital storytelling, YouTube and Flickr), 3) survey tools, and 4) social ne
Wondering what fellow VISTA Jessica McCoy and I have been collaborating on since September? Check out the launch of a new online project, StoriesForChange.net, sponsored by both of our host organizations!
Because this came up in our last Digital Media call and Nettrice's last Digest article, I thought it might be interesting to folks that Tech Soup has a new article "How to Use MySpace to Raise Awareness" (by ) about using MySpace as a low-cost p.r. tool. It has a few general ideas about starting a social network online that I'm going to reference in my work in the next couple months, especially around the idea of active seeding and connecting other forms of communication.
Comment from gariet cowin on December 7, 2006 - 2:16pm
Thanks for blogging about myspace!
Some of the folks here at PCM have been bugging me to set up a myspace page for the OLLIE program (which I did, sort of), but I don't think that they quite understand what myspace is. They've just heard that it is something that young people use, and has something to do with social networking.
Their idea, I think, was to befriend Portland youth, who would then get interested in participating in the OLLIE program. Unfortunately, befriending youth via myspace is not easily done, as there are restrictions put in place to stop adults from adding under-aged kids to their friends list.
Befriending other organizations makes more sense to me. Although I'm still not totally clear on what the overall purpose is. People here at PCM seem very interested in "brand awareness", and "getting the OLLIE name out there", or whatever. But nobody has told me why that is important. So I guess that's my real question:
If we are already working with more schools than we can handle, and we are sufficiently funded, why do we care if Joe Citizen has heard of the OLLIE program or not?
This is an excellent example of how to network on the web. I have been a member of a motorcycle forum for over 2 year...maybe three. Anyways I went to visit a fellow member this last weekend and this is the story that I posted on my forum. It has pictures. :)
Well this was a great weekend. I have got to admit that its some of the best riding I have done. So I will do my best to explain it. Patti can jump in and fill in any details that I failed with.
As a new member of the CTC VISTA Project, I began my service full of fascination for the seemingly utopian quality of social networks made possible through open source content management systems (CMS). My enthusiasm for social networking software easily translated to my first large task at the Homeless Prenatal Program (HPP), a portal to be used primarily as a resource for case managers. In my initial vision, the portal would allow case managers to both access and alter content regarding best practices, downloadable forms and resource recommendations for clients. This case management portal, I assumed, would allow case managers to engage in a collective, participatory and accessible social network mediated through open source software on the internet. However, as my research and development for the portal commenced, I began to see there were problems with idealizing internet-based social networking.
Participatory culture is about the intersection of digital media tools and the ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving a variety of web-based applications to people. I use the term “participatory culture” to reference the concept of active participation or the act of sharing in the creation of ideas, versus the “passive” scenario where people can receive information but are not allowed to engage in the creation or selection. Participation also refers to the availability of sources and individuals’ ability to customize their media experience.
Comment from Morgan Sully on December 13, 2007 - 3:24pm
Hey Rian,
if you can send me the original (editable) copy of the above PDF, I'll happily fill out what I know on it and send it back. This is a great chart.
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Comment from Ben Sheldon on December 20, 2007 - 1:17pm
Hi Rian---I wrote about some survey tools in an earlier post here:
http://ctcvista.org/node/1175
That looks like a pretty useful list. I have some other stuff sitting around I'll email you too... once I find it :-)