Public Media Camp – Day 2
Posted by: Nina Keim on: October 18, 2009
The second day of Public Media Camp started right there where the first day left off. I met interesting people, learned about new forms of community engagement and crowd-sourcing and was introduced to technical programs, applications and resources I had not known about before. To use Andy Carvin’s words from the wrap up session: My brain is exploding of the great new ideas I gained at Pubcamp.
Wrapping up two great days of an uncoference full of dialogue, collaboration and active engagement, here are my impressions of day two:
- “I love engage” – Engagement is key. I will be proudly wearing the pins PBS brought to the conference.
- UGC – stands for ‘user-generated content’
- Pipes.yahoo.com – Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
- Using the metaphor of a ‘trust cloud’ www.trustmap.org is as a tool to express trust in someone on Twitter. This is specifically important when dealing with crowd-sourced information where credibility of sources is a big question.
- Crowd-sourcing projects are easier established for breaking news events (election, hurricane) than for ongoing issues (health care debate).
- Twitter is addictive – in an environment where everyone is enthusiastic about tweeting, not jumping on the train and using Twitter can lead to missing out on information. I added many new Tweeps to my list and connected to great thinkers via Twitter.
