Following a meeting with Auro and Clément at the beginning of April, I managed to sort some dates to come down and cover activities at Village Underground. Before I came down it was important to have some social media networks more sorted.
Village Underground now has a Twitter Account, a YouTube channel, and a Flickr site. I’ve also been overhauling their Facebook and Myspace presence. At the simplest level this has meant using all the logos and backgrounds so branding is carried across all elements. It also means effectively pulling content from elsewhere and thinking about re-distribution.
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MA Online Journalism, Production Labs, Social Media
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Entertainment/Culture, Facebook Group, Facebook Inc, Firgas Las Palmas, Last FM, MySpace, MySpace Inc., Online social networking, Posterous, Raw Material, Social Media, Spotify, Technology/Internet, Twitter Inc, Village Underground, Web 2.0, YouTube Inc
I’m fascinated by the capabilities of Geolocation so I decided as part of my multimedia portfolio I’d play around with some audio which was recorded on a Home Of Metal tour, hosted by Chris Phipps in March 2009.
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Audio, Multimedia
| Birmingham, Chris Phipps, Entertainment/Culture, Geolocation, Google Maps, Home Of Metal, iPhone, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, YouTube, YouTube Inc
For my MA Online Journalism I’m conducting a Production Lab placement with Village Underground, London. Following the last group Skype meeting, I thought it would be useful to do a case study on a venue that already has its online presence sorted. I managed to arrange a face to face meeting with Maryam Ashgari from the Barbican, a 28 minute edit of the meeting can be listened to below.
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But if you don’t have half an hour to spare here are my conclusions.
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MA Online Journalism, Production Labs
| Celeste Boursier, Flickr, Last FM, MA Online Journalism, Maryam Ashgari, MySpace Inc., Sara Chang, Skype, Social Media, Technology/Internet, The Barbican, Twitter, Village Underground, Web 2.0
Online News Association kicked off their 2010 monthly meet-ups by inviting renowned blogger Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes) to add his own incendiary opinion on social media, real time and data driven journalism of the future.
It was one of the best journalism discussions I had been to in a while. You can replay the liveblog below and or compare perspectives (it’s the future!) with @brian_condon.
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This is our first real meeting for#Brum a new hyperlocal news site for central Birmingham. We’re still very much in development at the moment and we’d really like involvement, help and suggestions from non-MA Online Journalism students.
It would be great if you could comment on the conversation we had, or you can also track and make suggestions at our #Brum Wiki
You can right click ’save target’ for the MP3 here or you can listen to it below.
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BTW We got off to a poor start by not recording the first five minutes!
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