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“Social Networking - Friend or Foe?” - Glasgow

Based on the high demand on for the "Social Networking - Friend or Foe?" workshop in Glasgow, IRISS has decide to run an extra workshop on the 19th November 2010. The workshop is to anyone working in the social services and is intended for those who are curious, possibly bemused, and would like to find out more.

Social networking tools - blogs, microblogs, wikis - make it easier than ever to create and share content and enables us to communicate in real time across boundaries and hierarchies. Unlike desktop computing skills, such as word processing or spreadsheet manipulation, social networking is experiential in nature.  You have to try it to understand it and the understanding required to make good use of social networks is cultural rather than procedural.

IRISS is running an one-day workshop to provide this cultural experience. On the day you will be introduced to and experiment with:

    * Microblogging (Twitter)
    * Social bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo)
    * News Feeds (RSS)
    * Meeting Schedulers
    * Communities of Practice
    * Web browsers

The challenge for all councils now is to move social media off their list of challenges and on to their list of opportunities. If they don’t, they face moving into a changing world under equipped and under-resourced.  If they do though, they may find that the solutions they seek are right under their nose. The choice for councils is stark: get on board, or get left behind. (NESTA, 2010)

To book a place, please click on the following link: http://iriss.eventbrite.com/

For further information, please contact Marta Ribeiro ( / 0141 228 6378).

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