Category: Monday videos

Communities and Networks in New Zealand and Australia

I head down under in a couple of weeks to run a series of events in Napier, NZ (url soon), Wellington, NZ, Sydney and a free event that evening (Cracking the Door Open – Nancy White (4 April 2011) « NSW KM Forum), possibly Adelaide (to be confirmed soon), Canberra and Melbourne (two more events besides this one – urls soon!). If you are in the vicinity, I hope you might consider joining us.

In preparation, my co-conspirator, Matt Moore, and I made a couple of videos you might enjoy. Just a bit of fun.

YouTube – mattbm34’s Channel.

Social Media Learning With Puppet Energy

Last November I was pleased as punch to be part of the Orton Foundation’s “Community Matters” gathering in Denver. Little did I know I’d be creating learning partnership with Suzie, a fabulous, pink person who is thought to be a puppet by most human beings. Fun doesn’t come close to describing the magical experience. Thanks, CM10 crew for the video and thanks, Suz!

Nancy & Suzy_INTRO TO TWITTER from CommunityMatters on Vimeo.

More here: http://screenr.com/8kl

Monday Video by RoCo Ilizaliturri: Sé Feliz!

RöCô Ilizaliturri has posted a simple, visually intelligent and sweet video on Facebook. I was totally captivated. Maybe it is the frame of mind I’m in, but the juxtaposition of images, music and text (in this case in Spanish, which causes me to pay attention differently) just caught me.

It doesn’t appear to be embeddable, so you’ll have to wander over to Facebook to see it.

RöCô Ilizaliturri: Sé Feliz!

Many Voices

I have about a half billion partially edited blog posts. But life has changed a lot for me since becoming a grandmother and now having the honor of spending afternoons with my grandbaby and I have not prioritized writing. I actually have more time for reflection on walks, while laying on the floor with the baby and such. But now work consumes the mornings, with the tyranny of the to do list.

I still take “breaks” by looking at my Twitter feed and came across this very useful article, 3 Unique ways to record, edit, and publish your audio :: 10,000 Words :: where journalism and technology meet. There are a bunch of projects where people will be doing short audios and videos and I appreciate useful posts like this one.

Then, at the bottom, there was an embedded YouTube video that struck me to the core and actually reassured me that my silence is fine. There is a lot of great stuff filling the electrons. Take a look at this.

The blog post author, Mark S. Luckie (what a GREAT name!) , wrote:

If you’re looking for inspiration for your collaborative audio projects, check out the video below of a choral piece constructed from 250 individual performances. For this unique project, each person seen in the clip submitted a video of themselves voicing a part of the composition “Lux Aurumque,” composed by Eric Whitacre. The individual videos were then edited together and the stunning result was uploaded to YouTube.

Collaboration and crowdsourcing… the future of audio is here.

In our networked world, we have many voices. We don’t all have to ‘talk’ at the same time. But look what happens when we sing “together!”

Many voices. Powerful. Thanks, Mark, for bringing this into my life today. I experienced something beautiful and was also able to let go of the “non blogging” nagging, guilt!

P.S. See also this terrific post by Mark which puts a great reframe on Personal Branding.

P.S.S. Another great collaborative song video