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Indybay Website Orientation, Sat. April 16th
Have you enjoyed spending time at Indybay.org? Do you appreciate it as a special tool for dissemination of information about local activism and a place to have thoughtful, respectful discussions about current issues? Would you like to know how the website works? Have you thought about getting more involved? If so, then our next website orientation is for you. Learn more about Indybay.org and how you can help the site continue to be the useful project that it is.
As we project the website movie-screen-style onto the wall, we'll be talking about how to post news, photos, video and audio to the site. We'll discuss things that go on behind the scenes like what happens once something is posted to the newswire. We'll explain how and why newswire articles get moved from the "other/breaking" section to the local or global sections. We'll share with you how stories get made into center column features and what types of editorial decisions are made regarding features, posts, and comments.
Indybay's points of unity state that we are "anti-capitalist" and "anti-oppression." If these values are in line with your own, you find that the subject matter covered in the center columns of the website tends to agree with your own politics, and maybe you are especially interested in one (more more) feature page, you're more than welcome to come to this orientation. There are no requirements as far as the amount of time you have to offer or technical prerequisites. It's actually not that hard to post to or edit the site, and we can teach you everything you need to know in a relatively short time.
At Indybay's next Website Orientation, we will explain what the site is all about, how it does it, and what kinds of help we need. If you would like to get involved with Indybay.org, at any level, come by and find out more!
When: Saturday, April 16th from 3pm-5pm
Where: 674 23rd Street in Oakland, between Martin Luther King and San Pablo - about 5 blocks from the 19th Street BART Station (This is in the same building as AK Press, although AK will not be open that day.)
Contact: sfbay-web at indymedia.org
Indybay's points of unity state that we are "anti-capitalist" and "anti-oppression." If these values are in line with your own, you find that the subject matter covered in the center columns of the website tends to agree with your own politics, and maybe you are especially interested in one (more more) feature page, you're more than welcome to come to this orientation. There are no requirements as far as the amount of time you have to offer or technical prerequisites. It's actually not that hard to post to or edit the site, and we can teach you everything you need to know in a relatively short time.
At Indybay's next Website Orientation, we will explain what the site is all about, how it does it, and what kinds of help we need. If you would like to get involved with Indybay.org, at any level, come by and find out more!
When: Saturday, April 16th from 3pm-5pm
Where: 674 23rd Street in Oakland, between Martin Luther King and San Pablo - about 5 blocks from the 19th Street BART Station (This is in the same building as AK Press, although AK will not be open that day.)
Contact: sfbay-web at indymedia.org
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how many newbies? what did you all learn? what can we expect to see? keep up the great work Indybay!!
i went to the last one, arrived a little late but they were very gracious about fillling me in...only three or four of us, unfortunately.
i thought it was great--an hour was a bit ambitious, though. the history of indymedia/indybay was really interesting and well-done. the "basic skills" part was a little obvious--i'm glad we went over it, but the process as on the site is really easy to follow even without an orientation. that's part of indymedia's brilliance as an community media tool.
i thought the projector worked really well. perhaps it could have been used more...a graphic explaining the lifecycle of an article, maybe, because i'm not sure i fully understand the "blurb" concept, the timeline of what ends up where (although the categorization process makes sense).
i don't know--it hooked me, anyway. i took a stack of info-handbills to leave around and if the next planned meetings extends beyond what i heard on saturday, i'll try to go to that one too
i thought it was great--an hour was a bit ambitious, though. the history of indymedia/indybay was really interesting and well-done. the "basic skills" part was a little obvious--i'm glad we went over it, but the process as on the site is really easy to follow even without an orientation. that's part of indymedia's brilliance as an community media tool.
i thought the projector worked really well. perhaps it could have been used more...a graphic explaining the lifecycle of an article, maybe, because i'm not sure i fully understand the "blurb" concept, the timeline of what ends up where (although the categorization process makes sense).
i don't know--it hooked me, anyway. i took a stack of info-handbills to leave around and if the next planned meetings extends beyond what i heard on saturday, i'll try to go to that one too
We had anticipated fewer people, so 4 seemed like a good number of people to have for our first projection-style orientation. If there are more than that, the whole thing can get really impersonal.
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