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Comment by Susan A. Bennett on May 22, 2012 at 6:16

The RI has both video and transcript, with questions, so perhaps they have the software that can do this.  See for example http://www.richannel.org/christmas-lectures/2011/meet-your-brain#/c...

Comment by Martin Newman on May 21, 2012 at 20:25

Unfortunately Susan if speakers at RSA events are anything like me when I give a presentation all I do is make my PowerPoint/Keynote presentation and write down important facts and figures. Then I just talk round my slides, I only write up later if its going to be published.

Comment by Susan A. Bennett on May 21, 2012 at 17:01

John as most lecturers must produce their papers on computers perhaps they could be asked to supply a copy for online reading, thereby getting round the problem of employing software/people to transcribe.  Susan

Comment by John Oakley on May 21, 2012 at 16:57

Susan, I absolutely support that idea. Of course, its not easy to do but perhaps some volunteers could do it from the audio/visuals. Maybe some local students might like the opportunity to build their transcription skills for the RSA "accolade". 

I've had a dream that one day in my lifetime it could be done automatically ( because I too process material differently when I read )  but I still have to find the perfect technology. Dragon Dictate gets close but would still need manual editing.

Comment by Susan A. Bennett on May 21, 2012 at 7:18

I believe it would be very useful to have transcriptions of lectures online as PDFs or similar, particularly as the meetings are often 'sold out' before we can book.  I know that we have audio/video files but the option to read means that you can revisit the text to get the full meaning in context.  I find that I process information differently when I watch/listen as to when I read.

Comment by David Wilcox on March 17, 2012 at 17:24

I've added a forum post on What digital champions and reporters might do to animate RSA networks http://bit.ly/FOzIt0 with a reference back to Tessy Britton's original post in 2010. It feels as if there's more opportunity now.

Comment by David Wilcox on March 7, 2012 at 17:08

I thought it was time to get on with trying some social reporting - so I done a couple of interviews with staff and posted the first one here about social network analysis to identify Changemakers. Here's the intro

In the Digital Engagement group we've been discussing how to help Fellows find out what's going on in RSA, and the possible role of social reporters (which is my enthusiasm). As well as helping Fellows tell stories about what they are doing, I thought it would be interesting to find out more about staff-led projects. Here's my first report, originally posted on my blog.

I think the work in Peterborough is really innovative - and could be more widely applied. Apart from mapping local Changemakers, should we map the Changemaking Fellows? And are there other social reporters out there who would help with more interviews? I can supply kit.

Comment by David Wilcox on February 15, 2012 at 14:07

I've posted a piece in the forum "We need more sociability before more technology ... including fun" suggesting hosts, guides and social reporters on this site as a start. Do please drop a comment if you agree (or not) and I'll move things forward from there.

Comment by David Wilcox on February 8, 2012 at 11:54

Thanks Matthew, that sounds really promising. It would be a big help to those of us engaged in discussion on Linkedin if you could post there too.

The front-end you describe sounds as if it could be a big help. As well as some platform integration, how about looking at the personal end? How will this work on mobile? I suspect one reason people discuss stuff on Linkedin is because it is easier. As I blogged, reporting Steve Dale: The future of online sharing is mobile, appified and people-centred http://www.socialreporters.net/?p=180

I don't think we'll get engagement without an attractive mobile option. I don't mean app development at this stage, just offering feeds, email etc that works on phones and tablets. That's where the potential champions will be.

By the way, I re-engaged with the London Ning, found it pretty much dead, and asked "is this worth keeping?" No response yet ... but then I gues there's no-one there:-). I think it would make more sense to try and pull people, content, discussion across here.

Comment by Matthew Kálmán Mezey on February 8, 2012 at 11:38

Hi folks,

Fragmentation is certainly one of the key issues I feel needs dealing with. Here are a few things I have planned that should help:

* Make a traffic-light grid of all the RSA online channels so we can all see which connect to other channels and which don't (ie so we know where linking-up is most needed!).

* I will be writing a piece for the RSA's fortnightly newsletter about the main avenues for Fellows to get involved online; this content will then appear as a new permanent page on the RSA Fellowship pages, that we can point people to. Perhaps the dashboard shoud be linked there too?

* The new RSA Social Media round-up e-mail should be a way to highlight good uses of social media for RSA purposes and to encourage future activity *** Do please send me good examples of engaging content, useful tools, upcoming events that need online promotion/involvement, other ideas etc. I need your help if this newsletter is to be useful to the digital champions and others***

* The RSA online activity dashboard is now here: http://bit.ly/onlineRSA It will be promoted on one of the slides before all RSA lectures. (Someone just suggested splitting it over two or more pages, with Fellow stuff on one page, official RSA on another, or suchlike. Good idea?)

* I plan to add RSA Comment to the dashboard, and once each regional Ning has RSS feeds, I will make a new widget to highlight regional activity too.

Any feedback on this? Other ideas?

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RSA
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