[Digital-Mentor] Digital engagement blog

[Clare-Marie White]

hi everybody,

Sending this under the assumption that it's got everyone interested in this
on! (Dave/Helen feel free to add what follows to the blog if useful)

Quite a lot of us are now involved in social reporting at events in order to
share them with the wider world and enable interaction. You may not know (or
maybe it's just me) that the hashtagged content on search.twitter only has a
limited life; I just did a search for the #chainreaction08 feed and nothing
comes up. If someone knows another ways of finding the feeds let me know.

It reinforces a suggestion that I wanted to make for digitalengagement which
is that it would be useful to have a simple space to synthesise content from
conferences and other meetings in order that anybody coming new to this
arena can have a quick overview of the debates, information and resources.
It would include an archive of past events and a diary of future events with
agreed hashtags and links to encourage those attending to share.

The thing about blogs, feeds etc is that they are all about what's new,
which is fine, but I'm conscious that there is now quite a backlog of
high-quality shared events with an array of easily-forgettable names, on a
load of sites that are only google-able if you can remember something
precise about them. This will become even more common over the next year, so
it might be worth us collaborating on something now. I'd like to be able to
think there was a site where I could go and quickly get an overview of the
best bits of the conversations I can't get to or that I didn't even hear
about. Possibly more importantly from a digital engagement point of view, it
would be useful to have a space where we strip away all the jargon and shape
the content we have gathered for people who are just starting out, as well
as perhaps having a map for local events.

It might ideally be something very good looking and not-messy, a sort of TED
for useful learning from UK conversations. It might just be a matter of
extended/collaborating round an existing site to develop a simple front page
that can be linked from other sites, so if anyone has any suggestions please
add them.

best wishes
Clare
@clarewhite
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