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/
