Josie describes herself as a UK-based social and educational technologist working as an independent consultant. Her focus is on social networks, software and media, digital literacies, online communities and identities. She helps people communicate and helps them manage risk.
One of the distinctive qualities of an Amplified event is that its success can be partly gauged by how many people are fiddling with their mobiles, handhelds and laptops while the speaker is on. Whereas at most events, you'd be asked to turn off your phones, here you're expected not only to have them on, but be paying attention to them. As long as you can assume that people are live-blogging or tweeting about the event they're at, of course, rather than ordering the boxed set of Battlestar Galactica on blu-ray off Amazon.
This morning Josie discusses the management of online identity with special reference to social media. By turns alarming and amusing, her presentation leaves us all amazed at what some people see fit to put online about themselves!
At last I discover why my Foursquare check-ins are no longer appearing on Facebook. It seems that Foursquare has proved so popular that Facebook is developing its own geolocation app - which may be launched this very day.
For the first time this morning, I meet Keith Perch, Editor of the Leicester Mercury. When I introduce myself, he asks me why we haven't met before. And wouldn't you know it, I don't have a single one of my Council of Faiths business cards on me. I give him one for REDP though. He gives me his, asks me to drop him an email and says we should arrange a sitdown together.
Find out more about Josie Fraser and what she does (she has 5,923 followers on twitter!):
http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech/
Find out more about Amplified Leicester:
http://ampleic.ning.com/
George,
ReplyDeleteThank you for this blog, and the links to follow Josie Fraser. It's appreciated because I can also relate to an `inverse law governing' my attempts at attending such events. On this occasion it was the arrival of three job application forms for a post I'd applied for ten days previous to this event, with a deadline date of 23rd April. I spent the whole day filling in the forms, with disappointment that had followed excitement at attending Amplified Leicester's first session open to the public.
I feel like I've missed out on another Amplified Leicester success, which makes me think that I should have attended. After all, it is about communication and if an organization is sending info through the post at the 11th hour, how aorganized are they and do I really want to work for them. Lesson learned: Stick to original plan.
Once again, thank you for this. I'm now off to follow Josie Fraser and catch up with her blog posts.
Teresa Wright
I am very glad you did give him an REDP card, would have been very disappointed at an opportunity missed if you had not! :0)
ReplyDeleteI am very glad you did give him an REDP card, would have been very disappointed at an opportunity missed if you had not! :O)
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