Four Flip cameras to give away
Posted by Gavin Wray on 4th May 2011
Photo by Podnosh
Over the last six months Podnosh have trained several groups of people in social reporting – using video, audio and other social media to objectively report what’s happening in communities, at events or meetings and to quickly publish this information on the web.
If you’ve been part of the training – through Every Voice Counts, the Black Country Take Part Pathfinder program or with Birmingham Neighbourhood Forums – then we’ve sent you an email.
It’s offering you the chance to win one of four Flip cameras bought as part of the Every Voice Counts programme. The aim of the training and these cameras was to create a legacy of community groups, active citizens and even council officers empowered to use the web for civic good.
So if you received one of these emails please write a social blog post whereever you think is fit and link your post to this one. We’ll read the posts and pass on the cameras to four groups or people.
What do we mean by “social”? Need some ideas on what to write about? You might want to look at:
The closing date is Friday 20th May 2011. Remember to include a link to this post.
Good luck and we look forward to reading your posts. Everyone will get mentioned here once the decision has been made (the posts will be judged by Nick Booth, owner of Podnosh and Denise Taylor from RAWM) – and we’ll explain why we chose the posts we did.
So four Flip cameras to help you hold power to account or reflect what going on in your neighbourhood or your community.
I have endulged myself in a little bit of mental stimulation, being a Silver Surfer,by publishing a recent post on my above Blog. This has laid dormant for some time, and I will now plague the street,city, nation,globe, with a few FLIP Clips in a bid to secure one of these little beasties for Birchfield Residents Action group,
http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/05/blogger-is-back.html
Th above link explains why you may not have had the pleasure of seeing my earlier posting,such is life,even Blogger’s Buzz “felt the pain”
So back to Posterous.com which was the site I set up at the workshop on social networking with the Flip Cam
http://birchfieldresidents.posterous.com/the-value-of-flipping-in-making-us-aware-of-l
Super, thanks for contributing the post Michael.
Sparkbrook Neighbourhood Forum, who attended the Flip camera training, have also been posting updates their area:
http://sparkbrookneighbourhoodforum.posterous.com/
We’d like to get as many posts as possible – and to give away all four Flip cameras! – so we’re extending the deadline to Friday 3rd June.
Get writing and remember to link to this post from your own.
Thanks.
Well done Mary Mockbell on landing that fabulous cheque from the Secret Millioner last night, we must come to pay you a visit, for some tips as we have similiar truck as yours, and plenty of rubbish, this proves the point,
http://birchfieldresidents.posterous.com/overloaded-street-cleaner-returns-to-base-des
also getting to grips with Twitter,@michaelrtye, and following our new local young councillor, Waseem Zaffar, who has promised to help us with forming a forum of our own.