Distribute This: online identity, presence & practice

ALT-C Workshop at 09:00 - 10:20 on Thursday, 10 September in 1.219

Josie Fraser, independent consultant
Frances Bell, Helen Keegan, University of Salford
James Clay, Gloucestershire College

See full details in abstract.

Presence, Technologies and Getting Noticed (20 mins)

Frances Bell will give a brief presentation framing identity and presence in an online context, with examples from the Emerge Community and ALT-C 2009 Crowdvine.
Helen Keegan will demonstrate the potential and risks of the technologies used in the session, using evocative examples.
Josie Fraser, Online presence management.
Link to Slideshow.

Applying the Technologies (50 mins)

If they wish, participants can bring personal CVs or project documentation but may use a social or anonymised identity if they prefer. They should ensure that they have access to a Web mail account.The workshop presenters will work with small groups to support their use of the following technologies:
1. Microblogging - Twitter
2. Photo sharing - Flickr
3. Blogging - Wordpress or Lifestream - using Friendfeed or iGoogle
4. Video sharing - Blip.tv
5. Social bookmarking - delicious

Putting it all together (20 mins)

In the wrap up, we will showcase aggregations of participants’ work and discuss possible future directions/issues and questions that arise, face to face and on twitter using #disthis tag.

Other resources from the presenters

http://francesbell.com/2009/07/23/moving-between-categories-in-online-identity/
http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/2009/01/the-problem-with-the-mother.html
Van der Wal, T. (2006). Folksonomy to Improve IA Paper presented at the OZ IA, Sydney, Australia.