Category Archives: Conference Resource

Content, Communities & Collaboration for Online Media

I was just looking over my notes from Webstock 2009 (Yes, I have been reflecting on these notes since and am aware this is far from liveblogging…) and thought I would share those from my favourite speaker, Meg Pickard from Guardian.co.uk who gave a fantastic presentation on Content, Communities & Collaboration. This presentation was right [...]

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Listen and Learn - Webstock 2008 Podcasts online today

The recordings from the fabulous Webstock 2008 conference in Wellington NZ are now online. I would highly recommend tuning in and learning from these. A few from my favourite list were:
-Kelly Goto: “Getting Unstuck” - This is far beyond techy webness (which is great in itself but you need to understand your audience!) and dabbles [...]

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A shift to Online Education - Resources, tutorials, open education initiatives

The last few posts I have written have been about teaching yourself something, as it is necessary to with digital media if you are to stay up to date with the overnight, hourly, constant developments in the space. It would be impossible to develop course materials on such a topic as they would have expired [...]

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Usability for Evil @ Webstock 2008

So here I was about to type out my favourite webstock presentations and I was sent this link…..
Rest to follow.

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New Media Timeline (2008) updated: New Media use in 2008 Election a key theme

Poynter Online have updated their new media timeline for 2008.
Events year to date include:
-Steve Jobs Macworld Keynote
-ABC News and Facebook sponsoring the republican and democratic presidential primary debates
-The White House getting its first blog
-Wikipedia in the newsroom
-Microsoft $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo (will look at this in another post)
While the MTV Myspace closing arguments [...]

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