Boston Media Makers Media Tech Tonic #1
At the Boston Media Makers meeting in April, Steve Garfield, BMM master extraordinaire, mentioned that they were hoping to expand things a bit, offering possibly two more meetings a month: a presentation sort of deal (no vendor pitch, just talkin’), and one that serves as training (media making), like, say using a Nokia N95 to broadcast on Qik or something.
The first ever Boston Media Makers training session, dubbed a “Tech Tonic,” is coming up later this month, and it’s free!
Boston Media Makers presents Media Tech Tonic #1
What: Blogging with WordPress: A Crash Course
Where: Massachusetts College of Art and Design
When: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 6pm - 9pm
Instructor: David Tames
Fee: Free and open to the public
Optional: Bring a laptop w/ wireless card
RSVP: david@kino-eye.comBuilding and Room TBA (RSVP via email and you’ll be sent the room and location)
Agenda:
1. Setting up a WordPress blog
2. Basic care and feeding
3. Using a custom template and tinkering with a custom template
4. Questions and Answers
5. Resources for further study
If you’re in the Boston Metro area, and you’ve always wanted to know how to do this, sign up, since this is a FREE workshop taught by a super guy.
Other brief notes from the April meeting:
Steve is also pitching the idea of gutting this little internet cafe attached to the Apple store in downtown Boston and making it into a new social media meeting space… a trend that’s happening all over the world. I kinda think libraries should do this, too. I kinda think libraries are ideal spaces for this, if for no other reason than to continually prove to teens that we’re relevant, and give the 25-38 year old unpatrons a reason to come to the library.
Gravityland: apparently, episode 6 was written entirely by viewers! Nice.
Jason Praymus talked about Open Media Boston, which sounds super cool, and like a great, well-managed application of the future of user-generated content:
Open Media Boston is an online media outlet dedicated to regularly publishing fair and accurate news, views, arts, and entertainment content in text, image, audio and video formats from a progressive political perspective for the Boston, Massachusetts, USA metropolitan area. We are an audience-centered publication that will constantly solicit submissions and commentary from the general public using the latest social media technology while maintaining professional journalistic standards at all times. We will always strive to balance open participation with editorial control in the service of this goal.
Steve will be happy to know that, attached to this post, is the *super long* recording that I made of the April BMM with my snazzy new Zoom H2, acquired a PLA in March. It’s a whole different ballgame from a cutie little Olympus D-70 pocket digital recorder, and I’m still feeling out it’s maximum potential. Feel free to listen to (or even skim) the Twitter-style madness of one of our breakfasts!
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