Blog to the rescue

06Jul10

Burnie LINC has been running a trial Work Readiness program. In one of our sessions we looked at using technology to write and upload reviews of items in our statewide collection. Some reviewed books, others DVDs and CDs. The interesting development was when a particpant asked if we knew how to make some super secure [...]

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Social media: the new conversation

15Jun10

Here’s a blog I  subscribe to: Kathy Hanson talks regularly with people who use story in their work. This one is relevant to our  discussion around social media and how we can use it and why we need to. She’s talking to Steve Krizman: I love this quote about the value of opting in… “The [...]

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Free Story Resource

08Jun10

Here is a very useful free ebook about using/gathering stories in communities. Cynthia Kurtz is an interesting academic working in this area and worth following: this is a really accessible guide with some basic starting information around process/use/etc. http://www.workingwithstories.org/ Moya

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De-identifying stories

07Jun10

I was talking with Anne-Marie today and one thing we discussed was the idea that the strongest stories are often the ones that we feel we can’t tell… because of their sensitive nature and privacy issues.How does someone who runs a business admit in a public forum that she can’t fill out a form without [...]

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Using Photostory3 as a literacy tool.

02Jun10

As part of the Work Readiness program at Burnie LINC, we’re offering a workshop to get the particpants writing. From one worders, to one liners we hope to build their confidence using pen and paper and IT. Much of the material they use as a springboard for writing will be from previous workshops. We hoped to [...]

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