Login
newsnet
Connect, share and learn how to tell your local story
Welcome to newsnet
-
1/ newsnet members
-
2/ Jesmond Local
-
3/ How to guides
-
4/ UK360
What's new with newsnet members…
Why be a member?
- Connect with other citizen journalists in your area
- Share your experience and be inspired in our forum
- Get the skills you need to help tell your story
Latest from forums and blogs
Kim Townsend really brings alive the human stories behind the Community Voices project in this post for socialreporters. It is a very welcome contribvution to our community enablers exploration - thanks Kim. More welcome.
I just posted a blog on the great event on Saturday from Globalnet21 and PhotoVoice. Have a read here: http://newsnet.mediatrust.org/blog/truth-citizen-photography
#media2012 has a pre-Games meet up this weekend as part of Future Everyting. I made the journey over the Pennines to Manchester today to meet up with co-ordinator Jennifer Jones who introduced me to Alison Smith, the dynamic director of Pesky People, previously winners of an Inspring Voices awards from Media Trust. Alison and I started a discussion about what links there might be between the "disability meets digital" organsiation and newsnet, discussions that we both want to keep going, particularly to see how we and possibly newsnet members can help their excellent www.gogenie.org idea.
Also got a chance to talk to Luke Seager of #media2012 West Midlands about a launch event he's planning at The Public in West Bromwich to get local people involved in telling community stories around the Games as the torch relay as it passes through the town. As a longtime (former) Birmingham resident I'll be there be there to help with the training on behalf of newsnet and the duracell bunny that is John Coster @citizenseye will also be present. If you live in the West Mids, take a look at their site for videos and info on the launch event.
Adam
It's the 13th Ealing Tweetup this Thursday at The Rose & Crown, St Marys Road, a great place to meet people who Tweet in your community - we usually have an eclectic mix of local politicians, writers, photographs and other local people who care about their community. You get a free drink from our sponsors if you sign up in advance. http://twtvite.com/ealingtu13. Hope to see you there.
Hello Newsnet! This is Port Talbot calling...
Thanks to Erica Roffe at The Bedford Clanger for hosting a newsnet workshop yesterday, you can read all about it here in a summary of the day. Thanks are also due to John Coster at @Citizenseye in Leicester and Tina Barton @somewhereto_EM for taking the time to share their experiences and enthuse those attending the workshop-cum-meet up.
The Clanger is a community newspaper and for those that don't live in Bedford but fancy having a look at it youcan read the May edition here.
And if you'd like to host a workshop in your area get in touch.
Adam
Looking forward to visiting the Bedford Clanger team on Tuesday. Its a great opportunity to build on a relationship started through newsnet and discover ways of working together - http://www.citizenseye.org/2012/05/12/citizens-eye-taking-the-story-to-b...
Thank You to Cara French and Alex Delaney for your comments! Very soon.
On May 19th 2012 Globalnet21 and PhotoVoice are collaborating to present the PICS Festival, celebrating the role that photography can play in changing society for the better. We already have over 300 people signed on to attend. If you are interested then you can find out more at http://www.meetup.com/21stCenturyNetwork/events/51252922/
We hope that many of the exhibits will form part of our Citizen Journalist Blog and we also hope to capture some podcasts there to add to the Blog as well. You can find our Blog at http://21st-centurynetwork.com/blog/
Thanks to all the #citizenrelay reporters that turned out for the training in Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh over the last four days. If you haven't come across the #citizenrelay idea take a look at their site, it's a great initiative that will really get communities energised about telling their stories around the Olympic torch relay route and in turn feeds into the #media2012 citizen newswire. To understand how the training wortked, and how the reporters took to the experience, check out these videos from Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Thanks to Tina Barton at @Somewhereto_EM, John Coster @citizenseye, Jennifer Jones @jennifermjones and Dr. David McGillivray @dgmcgillivray for an inspirational four days, and to those I connected with en route Station House Media Unit, Whale Arts Agency, and Phyllis Stephen at The Edinburgh Reporter, for their interest in newsnet. which we'll be building on over the coming weeks.
Take a look at Phyllis's report on the training for The Edinburgh Reporter here, in particular check out her Flickr pics for a look at Edinburgh Uni's quite amazing Inspace facility in George Square.