Presenter:
@MichaelPurvisOK - Journalist for the
Sault Star, photographer and blogger
Got my candy treats....ready to go.
thanks for being the candy man
Thanks for the candy treats Ray!
holla Ray Ray
yo yo
Grah, projector fail going on =(
Mike Purvis is starting the session. born and raised in the soo, last 6 years has been a journalist for the Sault Star. Uses the Internet as a journalist and regular "saulite"
nice to meet you mei.
What's the relevance of the internet and social networks to local communities? excellent question
Nice to meet you too Ray!
"Let's think of this (session) as a crowdsourcing..." Yay crowdsourcing!
Rather than this being a lesson it's going to be more of a live crowd sourcing.
Mike sees the Internet as a great big bubble. Inside it are lots of little bubbles (websites, destinations, places you go, places you seek out to find info you want to know)
a typical lecture...no one ever sits in the front row...
Around the edge of the bubble, we're plugged in (our heads are like half in, streams into dif bubbles where we want them to but only when we look for them)
You may see the Internet differently (i.e. where you are in relation to the bubble, all the way plugged in? on the outside?)
neat thing about the internet: A 'bubble' in California is the same distance away as a bubble on Iran, a bubble in China...
the internet has taken away a lot of the petty information access problems we've had...I can find whatever I want
Globalized communities
M: "if I'm looking for something in one of these bubbles, I can go out and find it...but why can't it find me?"
That's Mike presenting (minus PowerPoint, but who needs that anyway!:)
Just some of the participants in this session.
There are way more than that
Twitter has changed the way Mike finds people in the Sault (or who have a connection to the Soo). i.e. he doesn't have to keep looking for the community, he can list them and organize the info with peoplebrowsr and see a window in the Soo
M: "With tools like peoplebrowsr, I can browse through communities of people who are in the Sault, or have a connection to the Sault"
Social Media works for Mike in knowing which events to cover as a journalist...especially Sault College events :)
M: Social media requires a sort of buy-in...it only makes sense if you take the time to organize the information present there
Twitter doesn't make sense unless you organize the information. i.e. don't just look at the main Twitter stream!
M: "The Sault is more connected to the outside world then ever before, but is it connected within?" (totally agree, this is completely true in my case)
discussing why there doesn't seem to be any kind of online community that the sault coalesces around...
there are forums at places like sootoday (all silos), the #sault tag on twitter....the Sudbury network on Facebook ><
is there something else to be interested in that we need to have people cluster around?
misconceptions about the Sault that people outside of town have...we're connected to these people...how does this play?
any kind of organization...needs a person to take it and drive it forward
(fwiw, I'd love to see a
Hacklab in the Sault, but I've got zero time to organize... =/)
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