'Webscaping' the Projects - updated from ANHLC News April 2011

Thanks for all your enthusiasm and insights at the conference. I am compiling the information and have set up virtual upload places to log the evolution of the projects – showcasing different platforms for different purposes.

Over the next couple of ANHLC Newsletters I’ll expand on these tools. This month we detail Facebook and Twitter as tools for building the message and growing your community.

Please feel free to pick up some tools and let’s grow together.

Facebook

Estimated at 400 Million users worldwide.
ANHLC is new to Facebook, but we are having a ball discovering all the great NH&LC happenings already on there.

Our aim is to have a consolidation site that is a community building area linking all the houses and allowing the public (and your peak) to have a vibrant visual representation of the sector at work.

If you’ve set up a NH page you want to share, your site is a little lonely or you’ve never seen what Facebook can do for communities, head on over to http://www.facebook.com/ANHLCVic

There are at least  50 NH& LCs on Facebook, why not make your house no. 51?
 

Twitter
Twitter is called a micro blog, with 120 million individual users who can comment (called a 'tweet' in a maximum of 140 characters), be followed and follow others.

Twitter is versatile enough to hold masses of trivia and celebrity shenanigans (including Charlie Sheen in full flight) and be an effective organising tool at the very heart of people’s revolutions around the world (including Iran and Egypt).

I have set up a twitter account specifically for the ICT projects (the idea is to gather followers from web-gurus and online community developers, as well as not for profits using twitter).

Check out www.twitter.com/digiheartANHLC (so called because I thought it could be part of future campaigns and become the ‘digital heart of the community’).

ANHLC is an established tweeter and can be found at www.twitter.com/ANHLCVic

For more information on the usefulness of Twitter – see a factsheet I wrote in my former life as Network West Networker (a wee bit out of date now – but still sound) http://www.networkwest.net/e-sheet1twitterrss

Also...

Google Sites and Groups

I've created a google site for the project. The Site links to the google groups and creates quite a sophistocated do it yourself interactive website and email list.
go to: https://sites.google.com/site/ictcapacitybuilding/ to get the picture.

Posterous - a REALLY simple blog site

Posterous is dead easy to set up, maintain and subscribe to. you can even post a blog by email.

I've set this up to be like an electronic pin board, just brain storm and record. A list of links and interesting and possibly relevant material to the projects and NHs in general.

http://nhdigicommsproject.posterous.com

We can also use this blog area as a place to log questions and answers on all sorts of techy questions (especially until the ANHLC site is up and rolling).

Skype us

Search for username: Projects ANHLC
Or call Matilda on Skype no: 9016 9654
We are currently gathering Skype names to save $$ on phone calls

To get more involved and maybe even become an ICT Ambassador, email me: projects@anhlc.asn.au 

YouTube - Video sharing and the second largest search engineI’ve set up a sector YouTube channel and this is where I’ll be putting conference video. Right now there are links to some of the great documentaries on ICT and the social media revolutions.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ANHLCVic
Matilda, ICT Project Manager