Ofcom’s Media Literacy e-bulletin – September

The September edition of Ofcom’s e-bulletin has just been published.
Selected features:

NIACE’s analysis of the Digital Britain Report
Futurelab call for ideas (for new ways of learning)
Media Literacy teacher training resources from the Media Education Association
Young people want advice about online privacy
Northern Ireland – WIMPS mobile launched (Where is My Public Servant)
European Media Literacy Conference – 21 [...]

Lord Carter speaking on his Digital Britain report

Here are two youtube videos of Lord Carter speaking on his Digital Britian report.  There are six in total on youtube.
A users guide to Digital Britain

Increasing online participation

Digital Inclusion Statistics

This is a presentation delivered by Helen Milner to the National Digital Inclusion Conference in London on the 27 April 2009.  The slides contain a number of key statistics on the digital divide in the UK which you may find useful.

Facebook Breaks for Staff!

Employment lawyers believe that staff should receive social networking breaks to address productivity losses.  This is an issue that is only going to increase in the future given the popularity of social media.
Organisations are taking different approaches depending on their work environment, but some sort of break may be a positive move.  Either way it’s [...]

Web 2.0 in teaching and learning

Web 2.0 and social media are everywhere on the internet and the idea of sharing and collaborating now seems to be the norm.  We know it is used extensively by media literate internet users; is constantly in the news; and has all sizes of organisations scrambling to embrace it as a means of connecting with [...]

10 Rules for Social Media in Corporate Communication

The Quadriga University of Applied Sciences are organising a conference in Amsterdam on the 22/23 Oct on Web 2.0 and social media.  The conference entitled ‘Online Communication: Decoding the Digital Revolution – Trends and Tools in Corporate Communication’ will showcase the necessary toolkit to deal with online communication methods and social media.
Probably most of us [...]

Can social media help you find a job?

The City University London thinks it can: Using social media to find a job.
The article features Linkedin, a professional orientated social network for making contacts etc, and using Twitter for job hunting.
If you’re not familiar with Linkedin take a few minutes to watch this video by Commoncraft.

Event: Tackling Social Exclusion Through Technology

A digitial inclusion event, titled Delivering Digital Inclusion: Tackling Social Exclusion Through Technology, is being held in London on the 9th December (9am – 4.30pm).
The event will enable discussion on a wide range of areas and is influenced by Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report and the government’s ongoing digital agenda.  Martha Lane Fox, the government’s [...]

UK’s Digital Inclusion Champion: Martha Lane Fox

Martha Lane Fox is the UK Government’s Digital Inclusion Champion and has been tasked with getting as many of the 17 million people who are not online to use the internet by the time of the Olympics in 2012.  She is especially interested on focusing on the 6 million who cannot afford internet access.
She hopes to achieve this [...]

Ofcom Poll: What do you think of blogs?

Ofcom are currently running a poll to capture your view on blogging. (What is blogging?)
The Poll Question: What do you think of blogs? Are they:

The way forward for journalism
Hit and miss – some are great, some less so
Self-opinionated, amateurish twaddle

To vote, you can find the poll on the lower right hand column of the Ofcom home [...]