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Rod Drury talked about Flying Pickle, a local community group near Wellington who are engaging a large interactive audience with their blog.

He also gave a demo of using Xero for online accounting. He mentioned that they’re finding community group members who are fighting over becoming treasurer, because it’s fun.

Stephen Blyth talked about how groups can use Flickr. He mentioned Oxfam and World Wide Fund for Nature.

Stephen then moved on to YouTube. He pointed out that YouTube provide the service, and make it easy for people to share the videos. They give you the code to paste in to a web page, then the video appears on your website.

Next up was podcasts — a sound file (or video) to listen to or watch on your computer, iPod or other device. For example, Collaborative Voices at Access Radio, Wellington.

Then Stephen talked about blogging. He mentioned comments, and RSS feeds, where you can ’subscribe’ to a blog and receive updates. He mentioned Volunteering Canterbury and justice.net.nz.

Hayden Sanders spoke about the Quitline blogs that help people quit smoking. He mentioned some interesting issues around moderation, defamation, spam, and ‘bad language’.

After Hayden, Stephen Gibbs from Sounz talked about their new online system for making NZ music more accessible and available to the public. They’ve now started using RSS feeds, YouTube and Facebook. He mentioned discussions they had about rights for works, and that this involved many parties such as performers, venues, copyright holders and so on.

Keep up with the Joneses

Update: thanks to Alan Royal who optimised the PDFs creating versions with smaller file sizes. Use the larger file sizes if you think you may print out the PDF, or the smaller file sizes for viewing on screen or if you’re on dial-up.

Miraz’s handout is available as a PDF (large files): Keep up with the Joneses (PDF, 8.1Mb) or zipped: Keep up with the Joneses (8.0Mb, zipped PDF).

Small files: Keep up with the Joneses (PDF, lower resolution 3.1Mb) or zipped: Keep up with the Joneses (2.7Mb, zipped lower resolution PDF)

Watch out for more reports and links over the next few days. Remember also to watch the Engage your Community website.

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Here’s Google Calendar version of the Wellington conference agenda so you can add it to your own calendar using it’s iCal feed

To learn how to create your own public Google Calendar showcasing your own events read our guide: Make Your Public Event Calendar Usable To All

What’s the conference about - this:

This is a conference pitched at an introductory level. If you’ve ever wondered how the web could be better used by your organisation; or know what a blog is, but not how it could be useful; or are a little nervous about opening a Facebook account, then this is a conference for you. If you think the internet is for geeks, or young people, or those with nothing better to do with their time, then this is a conference for you. And if you want to move beyond using email and having a simple website, then this is a conference for you.

This is a cross posting from MiramarMike.co.nz

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