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Digital Distribution panel at Liverpool Sound City #soundcity12

Digital Distribution Panel Sound City A collection of Tweets from this session at the Liverpool Sound City Digital Distribution Panel. I must say it was a very interesting session…..

 

What follows are my chronological tweets form the session

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Turning a fail into a win

After the last Social Media Cafe Liverpool last February 2011, I tried to create a video of the conversation between Alistair Houghton and Christian Payne aka Documentally. The video from this was the first attempt – somewhere along the line the encoding had gone wring and and gave me this really speeded up version of the interview. This was an Epic FAIL.

Fail to plan, plan to fail

Mr T said that

But I loved the funny fast paced images and decided this video would take a different route to than straight to the recycle bin. I asked @Methoddan if he had any open source audio that I could use, he did, so I cut it up and overlaid or underlaid it (whichever it is), recorded a bit of my audio to give is some use at Social media Cafe Liverpool.

I hope you like my turning a fail into a win.

 

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The Democratising Role of the Web

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Way back in November I went to the The Roy Stringer Lecture – on the Democratising Role of the Web,  at Fact Liverpool.

The speakers included

The event was based around Marth Lane Fox’s visit to Liverpool as she is the Nation’s Digital Champion and has been encouraging people to get on line – with the fantastic Give an Hour initiative. This is a really great idea as I want more people to see the benefits of getting online as proved when we ran the day long How Why DIY event in Aug 2010.

The democratising role of the Web

Liverpool has a population of about 440,000 with 100,000 of those not having daily access to the internet. Information is power and having access to that information can give the individual more power over their lives and over the lives of their children.   That is the Digital Divide that is faced in Liverpool and laughingly isn’t being addressed by any of the councillors or local officials, bringing Martha Lane Fox to town really didn’t resolve any of the issues faced by the people that need access to the internet most.  On a recent visit to a Merseyside school the teacher there told me that the pupils hang around the  school longer so they can use the computers and internet for homework, it is great that these children  get access but not all schools and pupils will be so lucky.

Check out the Digital Inclusion Strategic Framework from Liverpool City Council

During the lecture Martha mentioned that Microsoft are making recycled PC’s available for £95 for those on benefits. But as Richard Smedly rightly pointed out that we throw away millions of PC’s every year that should be recycled with free yes free software and passed on to those in need. Maybe some money should be spent on helping small organisations do just this especially as about 1/2 of adults not online hit 3 or more deprivation domains, then this issue needs to be addressed.

One final comment on this lecture is that the choice of panellist was bewildering, absolutely bewildering with more sense coming from the audience than from at least one of the panel members.

Do you think this Lecture contributes to the debate around democratising the Internet?

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Social Media morning or the sharks are a circling

I was asked to exhibit at Social Media Morning by the organisers on 27 January being found on Google. Er thanks Google, good to know my reputation presedes me. It was billed as “Hear from industry thought-leaders and visit an exhibition of the regions’ social media providers during a unique event at Liverpool Science Park.”

So I packed my Live Streaming kit up, grabbed a monitor, printed out some posters for Social Media in Liverpool week and packed a series of other bits and pieces like microphones, audio recorders etc.

Social media morning
Social media Morning

The first part of the morning was “Renowned digital media communications consultant and strategist Kathryn Corrick, of Emarketeers, will be lifting the lid on the latest digital media storytelling techniques and creative disciplines used by the big brands, writers, film makers and television.”

Of course I was busy setting up my exhibition stand while this action was taking place but more than a few people did make it – it was standing room only at the back of the room.

I did make it to the free breakfast part but as soon as I had it broke up and everybody well it felt like everybody heading down the stairs to bombard my stand with questions – I wonder if it was the posters for the free events like Social Media Cafe that were attracting them to the stand?   Yes it was but also because I had put a bit of an effort in and had some kit with me I’m sure.

You can listen to Joe from Custard Media chatting with me at Social media morning on this audio boo recorded while we were there on my trusty Android Phone.

 

We really did have a great morning with loads of interest in How Why DIY,  Social Media Cafe Liverpool and everything else we do.

We were so busy though that we did miss this workshop/talk

But I did manage to stream a little before the WiFi kicked us off.

If the morning taught me anything it’s that there is a great deal of interest in Social media and the benefits it can have for business.

If anyone is interested in finding out more then contact me or come along to Social Media Cafe Liverpool.

PS. Social Media Cafe Liverpool also have an iPhone app now and it’s free