{"id":163,"date":"2009-10-12T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-10-12T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T03:15:00","slug":"how-to-run-a-podcast-poetry-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/how-to-run-a-podcast-poetry-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to run a podcast poetry competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deborahfitchett\/4002917105\/\" title=\"Kris Wehipeihana - How to run a podcast poetry competition by Deborah Fitchett, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2564\/4002917105_26b06a06ff_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Kris Wehipeihana - How to run a podcast poetry competition\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>without an in-house IT infrastructure to support it<br \/><i>Rachel Fisher, Kris Wehipeihana<\/i><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lianza.org.nz\/events\/conference2009\/files\/02C.pdf\">abstract<\/a> (pdf)<\/p>\n<p>Covering podcasting; working outside IT infrastructure; social media.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodneylibraries.blogspot.com\/\">Blogger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.5ecvz7\/\">Google Calendar<\/a>.  But if your team isn&#8217;t keen it won&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Linking Montana Poetry Day activities to something that could be pushed out through to school activities.  Wrote it quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Clause 4 of terms and conditions &#8211; that poems are shared under <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/licenses\">Creative Commons<\/a> BY-NC-ND.  No questions or complaints from users.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t have any speaker\/microphone\/sound cards\/file space at all.  Most work done on Rachel&#8217;s own time and own computer.  Used free software.  Some shortcomings but advantages outweighed disadvantages.<\/p>\n<p>Blogger as easy to use.  Free templates can be customised but not easy if you&#8217;re not familiar with html.  However there&#8217;s lots of instructions available online especially as Blogger is so popular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/\">Audacity<\/a> &#8211; all you need to know is the location of record, stop, pause, play.  Advanced functionality available if you&#8217;re technically minded.  Save-to-mp3 is an extra file so awkward step for users.  Comes included in APNK package.<\/p>\n<p>File hosting &#8211; two downsides include:  sites require you to sign in regularly or you&#8217;ll lose your account.  Can also impose file storage and file size limits (but probably not a problem unless your competition is really popular).<\/p>\n<p>Stat counters (eg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statcounter.com\/blogger\">StatCounter<\/a>) lets you know how many people are visiting, whether they&#8217;re repeat visitors, where they come from again.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\">Google Analytics<\/a> is another one they use and will use in future.<\/p>\n<p>Last year people could only enter if they had their own equipment; now they have stuff through APNK it&#8217;s opened things up for everyone.  APNK should be self-managing but customers still ask librarians for help, so librarians require training.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney Libraries uses a yahoo email address because their staff email has size limits &#8211; it also ties in with their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rodneylibraries\">Flickr account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>File hosting sponsor this year is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liquidsilver.net.nz\/\">Liquid Silver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ideal set up would have dedicated website where customers can fill in mandatory information and upload files directly.  Computers would have all equipment and software preloaded; staff would be fully trained.  Significant relationships with local schools to combine curriculum areas (technology, english, etc).  One school in Rodney catchment area has more classes participating each year.<\/p>\n<p>Intends to maintain presence in web2 sites so as to be in a good position when demand for these services increases.<\/p>\n<p>First year had 32 entries; second year 56.  (50 entries in short story competition, for comparison.)<\/p>\n<p>Tim Spalding asked whether they&#8217;ve looked at sites where people can post poems and have them critiqued.<\/p>\n<p>Some difficulties in first year of competition re dialup &#8211; but it could be done, so don&#8217;t let dialup be your excuse not to do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>without an in-house IT infrastructure to support itRachel Fisher, Kris Wehipeihanaabstract (pdf) Covering podcasting; working outside IT infrastructure; social media. Using Blogger, Twitter, Google Calendar. But if your team isn&#8217;t keen it won&#8217;t happen. 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