From:
Jonathan Barrentine
Date:
Mar 19 22:13 UTC
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Hi, and if you are receiving this newsletter for the first time, welcome to St.
Paul Updates.
Our next workshop will be on the basics of recording, editing and posting video
online for free. Also, I encourage you to attend the Digital Inclusion
Roundtable tomorrow (Thursday) at SPNN (for more information about this
meeting, see the posting at
http://pages.e-democracy.org/March_20_Digital_Inclusion_Roundtable). Finally,
please fill out the Computer Technology Survey, if you haven't already. Keep
reading for more info on these topics, as well as a follow-up to last Monday's
"Building Your Own Website" workshop.
---NEXT WORKSHOP: Online Video and YouTube---
On Monday, March 24th, St. Paul E-Democracy will be hosting a workshop on
online video at the Rondo Library in St. Paul. The workshop will give
participants the opportunity to gain hands-on experience recording, editing and
uploading video, using Windows Movie Maker, iMovie and YouTube. Today it is
easier than ever to use video to make yourself heard online; come learn how.
Online Video and YouTube
FREE WORKSHOP
Date : Monday, March 24th
Time : 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Location : Rondo Community Outreach Library
461 North Dale
University & Dale, St. Paul
---DIGITAL INCLUSION ROUNDTABLES---
The City of St. Paul is moving forward with its Community Broadband initiative.
In order to ensure that citizens are part of this process, the City of St. Paul
and SPNN are hosting monthly Digital Inclusion Roundtables, at 11:30am on the
third Thursday of every month, at SPNN. The next meeting in this series will
be March 20. For more information, or for the minutes from the last meeting,
please contact me at <email obscured>
---TAKE OUR SURVEY---
If you haven't yet, please go to the St. Paul Public Library website
(http://www.sppl.org), scroll down to the "Community Computer Use Survey" and
select your preferred language. This survey is being administered by several
organizations that we partner with for our programming, and the information
gathered will be used to inform the discussion around community broadband in
St. Paul. Also, if you have taken the survey, please encourage others to do so
as well.
---LAST MONDAY'S WORKSHOP: BUILDING YOUR OWN WEBSITE---
First of all, I want to thank Marc for all his help on Monday. Thank you Marc!
For those of you that missed it, I gave a broad overview of website
construction followed by demonstrations of various software packages,
particularly Drupal and Joomla! (the "!" is part of the name, apparently). If
you missed it, if you want to review some of the websites we looked at, or if
you want to see the presentation I gave at the workshop, go to
<http://pages.e-democracy.org/Building_Your_Own_Website>. Also, because
someone asked, <http://pages.e-democracy.org/Outreach_tools> contains links to
several wiki sites about halfway down the page.
---LAST MONDAY'S SPED-OUTREACH MEETING---
St. Paul E-Democracy's Outreach committee (the fine people who bring you the
E-Democracy programming in Rondo Library) had our monthly planning meeting last
Monday. We discussed planned programming for the Saint Paul Public Library
Saint Paul-itics campaign, as well as our upcoming "23 things." I will try to
get the minutes online soon; if anyone wants them sooner, please email me at
<email obscured>
Thanks for reading.
-Jonathan
