Focuss.Info Bangladesh workshop on “Social Media and Social Bookmarking” it the extension of the Bangladesh Conference . Although the number of participants was limited (20x), Siraj Shahjahan reflected on the country’s new media reality improvement by improving technical skills and widening information sharing motivations among the participants. Along with social media and bookmarking, the workshop gave an overview on blogging, twittering (micro), and writing on the web.
The Bangladesh Conference on “Improving Research Infrastructures with Social Media” was held on 24 and 25 February 2011 (http://www.focuss.info/bangladesh ) in BRAC. From the learning of that conference, we keenly felt the need for more training on the social media, particularly for the webmasters of NGO, universities, institutes, media, human rights organizations and social media practitioners. In this workshop, we focussed practical matters.
Along with social media and bookmarking using, we overviewed blogging, twittering (micro), writing for the web, however introducing with all popular social networking platforms, features and social bookmarking plug-in, modules, components etc.
Special lecture by Dr. Brian Shoesmith and Dr. Jude Genilo have been delivered in the training session. Dr Jude gave lectured on community informatics and digital inclusion; however, Dr. Brian shared his experiences in Bangladesh and Australia.
The three-day workshop covered essential options of social media in a participatory manner. The topics would cover the link of social bookmarking of blogs platforms (Blogger, WordPress, Typepad, etc.), CMS platform ( Joomla, Drupal, WordPress etc ), social networking (Facebook,LinkedIn, Orkut, Hi5, etc.), micro-blogging (Twitter, Tumblr, Yammer, etc.), photos sharing (Picasa, Facebook, Flickr! etc.) Wikipedia, video sharing (YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, etc.), document and presentation sharing (Scribd, SlideShare, etc.), Livecasting video and audio (Ustream, Skype, Blip, etc.), social bookmarking (Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Reader, Diigo, keep your links, AddThis, etc.), social news aggregation (Digg, Reddit, Technorati, etc.) and so forth.
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Video playlist on the important lectures of workshop
This play is having the edited video of all important sessions of Bangladesh workshop. The video may give you an experience virtually what was happened in the workshop from 29-30 July and 05 August 2011.