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Bring me sunshine
I said something in a presentation recently about a non updated blog being worse than not having one at all … so I’m trying to practice what i preach!
It’s been a funny (as in odd rather than ha ha) time here in ICT towers. My team has shrunk around me (I just carry them around in a suitcase), ending up with just me in the corner banging the ICT drum. I’m managing and rejiggling all of the areas they worked on whilst also carving out my own role. It’s also been a time for me to think about what my role in delivering ICT support should be. Whilst doing my pondering I came across this post from Lee @ CommonCraft which seemed to sum up what I was thinking.
It’s too easy to start making assumptions – assumptions about general awareness, about the number of people who really know what’s happening in “our” online world. Viewed from the comfort of our living room, bookmarked pages and social circles, the Web looks pretty small and awareness looks pretty big. It’s too easy to assume that people have heard about the tools and sites we use everyday. www.commoncraft.com/assuming-too-much-about-web-we-see
There’s such an amazing and active community of people with passion for ICT in the sector that it’s sometimes easy to forget that there are thousands of organisations who’ve not even got the most basic ICT set up, let alone know about and actively engage with web 2.0. That’s why I’m happy to just keep going, making sure that those organisations have access to information and resources to help them make the most out of technology.
So i’d better get back to work then!
Podcasting is taking over my life
I don’t know when it started happening but my life is being taken over with podcasts. At the moment it’s just the constant downloading and loading of new podcasts as they pop in to my bloglines account, soon I fear that it will be the compulsion to start recording my own!
It started quite gently with ocassionally downloading a podcast about knitting (BritKnitCast), then the BBC started to make the Archers available as a podcast, then I discovered F1 pod casts, then other BBC downloads, free london walks …. aaaaagh, it’s too much!
I seem to spend half my life downloading the latest episodes so that I can listen to them on the train, life in the morning seems unbearable now without the latest happenings of Ambridge filling my head.
Even though my life seems to have been taken over with podcasts, I love it! I love the fact that anyone can create one on whatever subject is passionate to them. Someone can record something and then an hour later it’s online for anyone to hear. This morning I was listening to Stephen Fry’s podgram, his ramblings on whatever pops into his head – marvelous! Once I week I can be seen howling with laughter on south west trains listening to the Adam and Joe show.
Podcasting is not just for comedians or radio shows, the voluntary sector can create high impact resources with relatively little effort. Podcasts are an easy way to connect supporters to your cause, communicate with your funders or record the outcomes of an event. sounddelivery have recently created a series of podcasts for the Guardian website for mental health action week http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/audio/2008/mar/26/society.guardian their website also has links to other organisations who are giving it a go http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/about-sounddelivery.php - why not have a listen.
You don’t have to invest in expensive equipment to jump on the podcasting bandwagon, Michele Martin has talked recently about using your mobile phone to create recordings using Gcast. It seems quite an easy process as Michele recounts:
- Created my account, which includes adding my cell phone number and a pin number.
- Called the G-cast number.
- Easy instructions walked me through recording my podcast. I was able to listen to it and then decide to upload or delete.
- When I was ready to upload, I just hit the # key.
- Within a few minutes, my podcast showed up at my Gcast podcast home.
So why not give it a go and let me know what you come up with, then I can download it and listen to it on my way in to work!!!
Hubbers
… by the way I meant to say that I’d invited my fellow hubbers Matt and Vicky to contribute to this blog, so you might see their names pop up from time to time.
Watch out, zombies about!
With Halloween approaching the super talented people at the common craft show have put together a useful guide to spotting and dealing with zombies, a must for everyone this weekend:
