We love the www.veryoldgrandmother.com site! It’s a brilliant example of how the web can be used to counter loneliness & isolation.
It’s almost that time of year again! DS8, the 8th Digital Storytelling Festival in Wales is just around the corner, taking place this year on 14/06/2013 at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.
We’re super pleased to bring you all the details via a dedicated site, which you can find here http://ds8festival.wordpress.com/
Speaker details are now available, and we’re sure you’ll agree that this year’s international line-up makes for a hugely interesting and exciting event. During the day-long event, we’ll be hearing about a diversity of digital storytelling projects from a collaborative documentary project about the Egyptian revolution through to projects that work with offenders and heritage.
Booking information can be found here: http://ds8festival.wordpress.com/booking-2/ do come along, you won’t be disappointed!
Handy for those of you who need some help with measuring your impact.
Do the 2013 Benefits changes affect you? Here’s a simple tool from the Moneysaving Expert to help you work it out.
This fascinating slideshow is from a Historypin event we ran for Get Caerphilly Online / Communities 2.0 today.
The event was held at the Winding House in New Tredegar, and we met some wonderful people who came along to share their fascinating photos and stories of the area.
Historypin is a free website that allows anyone to ‘pin’ their old photos to a map of the world. It is extrodinarily engaging, and really helps demonstrate how relevant and interesting the web can be for people who are not yet going online.
We’ve just discovered the Digital Empowerment Forum, and are feeling rather enthused by their work and the resources available on their website…!
DigEm is an innovative digital empowering project that uses a creative approach to teaching ICT skills and provides an effective entry route for learners disengaged with the learning process, or not confident with new technologies. DigEm develops communication skills by using creative tools/media techniques, focused on people’s own lives, through story-telling, photography, music, video and narrative.
Digital December, our Christmas Advent Blog campaign for Communities 2.0 starts today! We’re very excited about the campaign, which brings you new tips, freebies, guides and links every day to help you get more out of the internet at Christmas.
We’re also very proud that UK Online Centres have agreed to recommend the Digital December Communities 2.0 Advent Blog as the definitive source of festive digital inclusion resources to all their 3,800 centres in England.
If you’re interested in following the campaign, be sure to check the Communities 2.0 blog, twitter account (@communities2_0) or facebook page daily to receive your tips throughout December.
This paper on Communication for Social Change is an interesting read for anyone working around behaviour change, be it digital inclusion, environmentalism or smoking cessation, great communication is essential to persuading people to change and this paper provides interesting insights into ways to measure impacts.
We use Google Street View quite a lot at the moment with the Historypin sessions, so this map and article showing Where Google Street View Has Gone So Far is pretty interesting!
Caring Connections, one of the digital storytelling projects we’ve been training, has been nominated for a Digital Hero Award! If you’d like to vote for a hero of your own visit the website here: http://www.talktalk.co.uk/digitalheroes/vote-map.php
(via TalkTalk)
