A much needed update
I know, I’m neglectful and I’m not going to make excuses I’ve just been putting blogging and a few other Online Journalism associated things on the back-burner while I’ve attempted to get other Uni work done.
So, just a relatively short blog, updating things I’ve leant since I last blogged about my classes because sniff, sniff Online Journalism classes have come to an end.
Right, firstly a few weeks ago we had a guy called Graham Holliday came in he is part of the BBC College of Journalism and he currently resides in Rwanda as a social media dabbler and media consultant where he also runs the online news blog Kigali Wire. Really nice guy who taught us lots about different easy to use and free social media sites for getting our work out on the world wide web in as many places as possible. Some of these sites include:
- pixelpipe – easy way of publishing video and photos etc.
- tubemogul – strictly video content only. Good for video linking and video sharing.
- bit.ly or tinyurl – URL shorteners, very handy for sharing links on twitter seen as it only lets you have 140 characters per tweet…
– publish2 – bit like delicious, good for bookmarking useful sites and sharing them with others and people in your network.
- Twitter – naturally…
If you fancy checking out anymore of his stuff then you can look at his blog check out his pictures from life around Rwanda on flickr or follow him on Twitter @noodlepie
Right next up, we had Karen Strunks a lovely freelance photographer who’s local to the Birmingham area, as in she works here, who set up the innovative 4am Project. The 4am Project started off with people from Birmingham sending pictures of the city at you guessed it, 4am, however it soon took off and now the project has photos from all over the world never mind just across Britain, capturing cities and sights at 4am.
She took us through the process of setting up a project and then actually following it through and keeping it running. At the moment there are around 40 countries involved in the project and and 4,500 images that have been submitted since she started the project in 2008.
I think it’s a really cool idea and some of the photos are amazing. If you want to check out the 4am project you can see the images on flickr. You can check out her website for lots of useful photography tips. Follow her and the 4am Project on Twitter @karenstrunks and @4amproject
As for what i’ll now be doing considering Online Journalism class is over, I’ll still be blogging, tweeting and bookmarking of course = ]
