Northern Voice: Tod Maffin on making your podcast awesome
It’s Tod Maffin on podcasting… which is to say, solid gold advice.
Northern Voice: The Book Broads on turning your blog into a book
New media turning into old? It’s not as counterintuitive as you might think, as Angela Crocker, Kim Plumley and Peggy Richardson of The Book Broads explained.
Northern Voice: Rachel Smith on graphic recording on the iPad
Graphic recording has long held a certain fascination for me: the idea of capturing the ideas and emotions of a speech, workshop or meeting on paper, as the event progresses. (Nancy White‘s graphic record of my Northern Voice keynote last year remains one of my happiest public speaking experiences.)
Rachel Smith of the New Media Consortium delivered a quick but info-packed presentation at MooseCamp on graphical recording on the iPad – which is a pretty good answer to the question “If Rob could attend any conceivable session at Northern Voice, what would it be about?” She’s one of the leading lights in the field, and she’s understandably jazzed about the iPad’s potential.
Unlike me, she doesn’t use a stylus; because she works in so many colours, it’s inconvenient to have to put it down, swipe to bring up a colour chooser, and pick it up again.
Here are my notes – drawn, naturally, on an iPad. (The resources I noted from her and Nancy are The Grove Consultants, Nancy Marguiles and the term “digital scribing” – Rachel suggested Googling it would produce much win.)
Northern Voice: David Ng on crowdsourcing a trading-card game to teach biodiversity
David Ng‘s talk on Phylo – a trading-card game inspired by the study showing kids can identify more Pokémon characters than actual local species – rocked the house, not least because he had us do Chewbacca impersonations.