Louise Ferguson provides links to reports from the Dust or Magic conference that use - in the spirit of the event - a mix of media. They were developed by Chris Hawker and fellow postgrad students at Oxford Brookes University. The report of Louise's own presentation on ICTs in the workplace shows the benefits of a Flash version over html for slides and audio. Some reports have video too. I'm intrigued by how easy (or not) it would be to develop off-the-shelf approaches to producing event reports which enable nonprofessionals to put together something usable. I'll be on the look-out for examples.
PS Louise provides a link to a piece in PC Magazine about The New Geek - people comfortably applying technical tools throughout different industries and disciplines. Can I be an old new geek? Louise comments on the article "Geek is a misnomer - geeks are misfits, socially inept. That's precisely the image that isn't reflected in the work being described." So - new name needed for socially-capable techies who do other stuff.... or perhaps non-techies who can do more than most. I want the tee shirt.... and the skills to go with it.
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