This is a Call Out for help at the next Social Media Cafe.
So I was thinking at the most recent SMC Liverpool that we had no great way of encouraging people to interact and I wanted them to, this was afterall the purpose of SMC. So here are a few suggestions for making the next meet up a bit more fun.
Your sitting in the Theatre watching a play – just before the interval – the actors stop, come out of character and tell you to get your phones out and to vote using Twitter on the way that the play should end.
This might seem really far fetched but it isn’t at all, already within Live TV performances such as the Xfactor, the shows producers are watching the twitter stream and changing elements within the show as it goes out Live…..
This video will undoubtedly will explain RSS feeds better than I ever could. Even though it is 5 years old now it still has important information for many.
Watch, enjoy then read on.
Right then so now you know what RSS feeds are and how you can use them to get other peoples news to your computer without having to go to all of those websites to read it.
But and there is always a but … are you making sure that visitors to your website are able to do the same.
Are they able to subscribe to your news via RSS feed?
I was asked to exhibit at Social Media Morning by the organisers on 27 January being found on Google. Er thanks Google, good to know my reputation presedes me. It was billed as “Hear from industry thought-leaders and visit an exhibition of the regions’ social media providers during a unique event at Liverpool Science Park.”
So I packed my Live Streaming kit up, grabbed a monitor, printed out some posters for Social Media in Liverpool week and packed a series of other bits and pieces like microphones, audio recorders etc.
The first part of the morning was “Renowned digital media communications consultant and strategist Kathryn Corrick, of Emarketeers, will be lifting the lid on the latest digital media storytelling techniques and creative disciplines used by the big brands, writers, film makers and television.”
Of course I was busy setting up my exhibition stand while this action was taking place but more than a few people did make it – it was standing room only at the back of the room.
I did make it to the free breakfast part but as soon as I had it broke up and everybody well it felt like everybody heading down the stairs to bombard my stand with questions – I wonder if it was the posters for the free events like Social Media Cafe that were attracting them to the stand? Yes it was but also because I had put a bit of an effort in and had some kit with me I’m sure.
You can listen to Joe from Custard Media chatting with me at Social media morning on this audio boo recorded while we were there on my trusty Android Phone.
We really did have a great morning with loads of interest in How Why DIY, Social Media Cafe Liverpool and everything else we do.
We were so busy though that we did miss this workshop/talk
But I did manage to stream a little before the WiFi kicked us off.
If the morning taught me anything it’s that there is a great deal of interest in Social media and the benefits it can have for business.
If anyone is interested in finding out more then contact me or come along to Social Media Cafe Liverpool.
PS. Social Media Cafe Liverpool also have an iPhone app now and it’s free
The AmbITion project for those of you that don’t know was set up in the North West to find ways of educating arts organisations in using new tools and techniques to deal with the demand of the consumer to access arts organisations content. It has done this in a variety of ways and extremely successfully, in fact so successful have they been, that they became a England wide project and now the Scottish Arts Council have also asked them to work with their arts organizations.
One of AmbITon’s first seminars was at an event I organized in Preston in 2006, and through my day job I have been lucky to enough to work with the AmbITion team over the last four years.
Have a look at these brilliantly simple How to guides recently published by the AmbITion team.
New publications are online! Roger Tomlinson helps us think about how to Syndicate Data using RSS and XML and How To Implement Digital Projects and Develop Digital Policies; Adrian Slatcher considers How To Be accessible; CJ Lyon teaches us about how to collect and share User Generated Content on your website; Chi-chi Ekweozor teaches us how to fundraise online using social media and how to get started blogging; Pam Henderson makes some great suggestions for how to recruit staff for digital developments; and our content partners Own-IT’s latest IP Guide to the Digital/New Media Industries is also available.
Please download and share these resources: they really are fascinating, insightful, and brilliant!