Beautiful frosty morning in Banton playground.
Month: October 2018
🎬 Watched: The Lives of Others ★★★★☆
Today’s best leaf.
Interesting tree.
Thanks for sharing this Aaron, I found it to be a carefully thought out piece. The idea of Art being a toy rather than a tool was a great hook. Looking forward to reading one of his books now.
I huffduffed the audio from here. About the boys: Tim Winton on how toxic masculinity is shackling men to misogyny
Warming up the mic for 8pm uk tonight I’ll be talking to @sfm36 Sarah Clark on Radio #EDUtalk: listen about Using technology when teaching science. Should be a fascinating show.
Luna Carmona at @wp_glasgow
Event #51: “Build a Community with WordPress and Social Media”, by Luna Carmona
Luna started by giving Mark Z of FB as a good model for communication. Someone to be trusted! I guess this indicated I was not the target audience;-)
I did enjoy the talk. Luna covered the way she had used social media to support building a community around Achieve More Scotland. This is a small but valuable organisation. In a couple of years they have greatly increased online engagement.
Takeaways:
- try multiple channels don’t be scared of dropping the ones that have little engagement.
- Meet community where it exists using the channels folk already use.
- Twitter in the morning, Instagram in the middle of the day and Facebook in the evening.
- Try for community rather than followers.
- Respond quickly.
There are lessons for online educational communities here.
There wasn’t much specific WordPress information I wonder if some IndieWeb tech could help?
The Blue Fox by Sjón ★★★★✩ 📚magical realism in a cold climate. Short, disjointed lyrical, tale. I’ll read this again.