Over here in Brussels we have seen the most bizarre show of security theatre. And proof that the internet really is all about cats
So. Some of us have, myself included, have signed up for the communication team for LOTE5. I’ve have been thinking about how we could do the outreach work well on very limited resources of time.
After some reflection I realised we could just use what we already have!
Over the years, we’ve accumulated quite a lot of really high quality content around challenges and solutions on the platform. It’s easy to forget this when we launch into something new, in this case LOTE5. People put a lot of effort into writing stories of first hand experience either of things that are failing, or creative attempts to unfail them. Others have shared their own reflections and experiences around these stories…in the form of comments and offline discussions during community events (many of which have been very well documented and posted here too). Why not revisit the material already have, reflect on their contents and summarise the knowledge in a format that makes it easy to build on the insights, ideas and knowledge that is already there?
We are already more than halfway towards producing something along the lines of @neal_gorenflo's wonderful Share or Die book. Everything on the edgeryders platform is released under a creative commons license, and if we ensure that whatever we come up with also contributes to the commons then we’re good. And we have the perfect home made tool to do this with: OpenEthnographer (see manual here)!
What do you guys think, does this make sense? Want to help?
Yes, it seems the search is down :-( But for our purposes it doesn’t really matter, say we are now looking for content, particularly posts, that is relevant to Lote5. We tag is as per the instructions and using one of the 5 tracks:
I will test it today too, and see what we come up with. My hunch is that instead of republishing we publish summaries or collections of short contexts+ quotes, but depends on what we find.
It’s not just you, @Inge and @Noemi. Thank God we are launching an overhaul of the website pretty soon. This problem in particular has a one-click workaround, documented here.
I’m having some access issues,after clicking on email links that I was mentioned by Nadia in a comment/post, these pages popped up. How can I solve this? Thnx
Started writing a comment which turned into a post!
:)) I can’t believe it. You start to do one little thing and before you know it… Deleted the comment because it was too long. republishing as a post tomorrow morning instead.
I found a resource which might be very helpful for the content curation/social media calendar- A list of every single status update on the Edgeryders FB page this year. Had forgotten I had set it up at the beginning of the year
Super easy to set up: You just use an ifttt.com formula to send the status updates to a spreadsheet to get something like this .
So all we need to do is go over the list, pick up the stuff that we like/feel is relevant to LOTE5 topics and sessions, and then update the social media calendar for what goes into the curated social media feed with slightly modified versions.
Everything is more fun when you do it together, at least for me :)) What do you think, should we do the content curation together over a skype call?
