LinkedIn as Video at #LikeMinds Exeter

Notes for post on LinkedIn maybe next week. I did  a few posts but not in a regular enough way to build an audience. Last week at the Print Show I discovered LinkedIn may hide posts that do not not get massive hits in the first few hours. Maybe this is why there is so much stuff, often not that new in content. This blog only happens when there is something going on.

Anyway the good news is that I can now upload video to LinkedIn from desktop. Even though i have less than 500 followers. So I think I will check out what I have on YouTube and do a retro reboot on a planned release schedule. Not sure, will ask at Like Minds, event in Exeter this Thursday and Friday.

When Radio 1 were in Exeter for Big weekend they told us about "visual radio" , the Live Lounge and soforth. Might as well make video as just radio. Sadly the lighting in Phonic FM studio is a bit of a problem for video but it turns out recent phones can compensate. Tests possible.

Meanwhile will try for sound relating to LikeMinds. @wenotno today 10 - 12. Wild Show tomorrow, search on Facebook. also 10 - 12 , will try to phone in around coffee time. 10 - 10.45

The event will be live streamed and video available later. Possibly the radio shows will make more sense later as well. Is there a model for making content available online? Is it viable for a conference /  music project?

There will be a workshop at the Phoenix about LinkedIn over lunch both Thur and Fri. I will probably be in Cafe 55 some of lunchtime to meet presenters from Wild Show. Can meet around this time, even if you are not part of the event. Not checking mobile phone though.

One question, will LinkedIn accept lower production standards if the content is interesting? YouTube has gone way up the production values scale. Can you just talk to your phone?

Also, at the Print Show it was fairly clear that LinkedIn can be about sales and a lot of talk about filters / selection. Suggestion to think about 100 or 150 people that could be met face to face.  So maybe my stats on YouTube are ok as they are.

Print / social media in Exeter , week of Like Minds

Next week on Thursday and Friday the Like Minds conference will be in Exeter. They did move away a couple of times but there is a continuing contact with this take on social media. Emphasis on business and advertising but music and events usually included.

I will try to find out more on how to mix print and social media around music / sound. Recently the Exeter Street Arts Festival included a #tag on print posters to link to Twitter and a Spotify playlist. Also a QR code for the playlist. Some posters do not include any #tags or codes so this is still something to discuss. I will try to find example content for some actual events.

Can try things out with the Lost Playlist. the Lost Weekend is definitely lost for this year so the playlist is imagined. Tech for the platform is not specified. Content still unknown. So should be easy to discuss.

I will get some content together for shows on Phonic FM. Tuesday 12 -2 in morning , Wed 10 -12 , maybe some of Thur 10-12. Not sure how this will work out. Please send links to sound clips.

Print Show 20018 definitely fits with Social Media

Just notes here, plan a longer post next week.

The Print Show at the NEC last week definitely showed print and social media together. The seminars included two on LinkedIn. I did some video and will upload soon. Print sales start with LinkedIn so no objections to social media as might have been at previous events.

There was some classic letterpress but almost no litho. Digital is mainstream. Now that IPEX has gone the Print Show can be an annual event for digital developments. There is still drupa for larger litho and some digital. so hard to work out what is happening with UK industry altogether. Probably still lots of litho but for the show a digital discussion is now possible.

Looped Stories around trades shows, for example IPEX and Print Show next week

I have done a blog post about "cross media" for the Print Show at the NEC next week. Relates back to IPEX shows now ended. Could indicate a trend to digital but maybe litho continues. Could be endless blog posts on such a question. at any time including previous century.

So starting to think about looping stories around tradeshows. Apple take on learning at time of BETT even though they stopped attending. LinkedIn recruitment and micro credentials at Learning Technologies. New one this, at least in the words used. Still mostly about the MOOC and online compared to established unis.

Maybe radio / whatever else there is with digital / social media around Like Minds in Exeter. My chat bits on Phonic FM continue round the year so Exeter is a place to oberve these trends in detail.

More later. On holiday this week but will update after the Print Show next week.

Looped Story #2 -Special Needs / Arts in STEAM / Apple at BETT

Following on from last year at BETT. Visited with Chris Norton and Jon Mahy from shows on Phonic FM. We looked for the Special Needs Area and then the Arts in the STEAM area. So two phone calls set up to the studio both with nothing to say except what we expected was not there.

Since then many reports of falling budgets for UK schools. So not surprising there are fewer Special Needs stands and / or Arts in the STEAM area. I have heard more about STEM at a Tech Exeter meeting but their scope again ignores Arts.

Probably much the same at BETT 2019 but still a story. Also Apple probably not there, apart from many fans and supporters. Could do a story around Apple as disability features built in, especially around voice. Possible at any time maybe? Check out aspects at actual BETT event.

The voice tech such as Alexa and Siri etc probably not much in schools. If phones are banished, what else? Still worth asking the question.

Adobe are now back at BETT. So nothing is impossible.

Base Words

Trying to sort out patterns in my tweets etc, looking at next year or so. Maybe a couple. Have tried a Google doc, screen shot below.

Maybe open this up later when more is on it.

Fairly vague but may work as Twitter style. "Trump / Brexit" fits many things together, news may make more links.

In UK, most newspapers pro Brexit. Complicated as in USA some anti Trump but in both situations social media allow public engagement. There is now paid for content as in newspapers but still a possibility for opinion such as support for Corbyn. TV and radio in there also. So far not reporting newspapers as a story but this may change. UK circulation trends indicates possible crunch event 3-5 years, maybe sooner.

Education scene still stays much the same but online learning has a base.

Print also continues but new investment may be in digital rather than litho.

News events around trade shows.