Last chance to NENgage

The final NENgage social media session takes place at Stockbridge Library tomorrow evening from 5.45pm. This week’s topic is ‘The Joy of Stats’, and among the organisations signed up are Pilmeny Development Project, Royal Botanic Garden, Inverleith Youth Forum and Edinburgh Womens Aid.

The session is free, but you do have to register. A handful of places are still available, but these are going fast so register NOW!

To register, and for full details of tomorrow’s programme, go to

http://nengage4.eventbrite.co.uk/

Final NENgage session this Thursday

The Joy of Stats!
In the final of our series of NENgage sessions we’ll be delving into the world of online data -looking at free tools and resources that community groups and local citizens can use to gather and present data in interesting ways. We’ll be showing you;
  1. How to create a simple online poll in WordPress or using Easy Poll.
  2. How to do a more detailed survey of opinions and feedback using Survey Monkey
  3. How to make an FOI request using the What Do They Know website
  4. How to present data online using free tools like Infogram or Many Eyes.
We’ll also have some great speakers, including journalistMichael MacLeod (former Guardian journalist, STV online reporter) and James Baster, a digital programmer with an interest in innovative community projects. James will be telling us about an exciting new open data project involving the city’s greenspaces.
We’ll also have a brainstorming sessionwhere you’ll have the chance to tell us about the kind of work you do, and we’ll come up with ideas for ways that you could use these tools to good effect for your projects.
As always, tickets are free, but you’ll need to reserve a place on our Eventbrite page. The session will start at 5:45 and runs until 7:30, with drinks in the Antiquary Bar afterwards.
Hope to see you there!

Sign up for NENgage this Thursday

Tom Allan and Emily Dodd will be hosting the third NENgage social media workshop in Stockbridge Library on Thursday from 5.45 – 7.30pm. The theme of this week’s session is video-blogging – and there are still a few places available.

As ever, the session is free but you so need to register. To do so, or to find out more, go to:

http://nengage3.eventbrite.co.uk/

Last week’s session was a lot of fun, with a mixed group of Inverleith bloggers old and new taking part. Such was the participants’ enthusiasm – maybe some bloggers don’t get out much! – that the session overran, and was continued in The Antiquary (thanks for that splendid buffet, incidentally!)

We’re hoping to post some of the articles written by our ‘NENgagers’ on the blog soon, but meantime you can get involved – sign up for NENgage this Thursday!

NENgaging tonight?

Just a reminder that NENgage – the NEN’s programme of fun, informal Social Media workshops – continues in Stockbridge Library tonight at 5.45pm.

This is our second workshop, but you don’t have to have attended the first one as each session is independent of the others. There are a very limited number of places left for tonight’s session – An Introduction to Blogging – but you need to register if you plan to attend! Please go to:

http://nengage2.eventbrite.co.uk/

Tom, Lucy and I look forward to meeting you all tonight, and thanks again to Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership for supporting this initiative.

Share your story – join NEN’s social media workshops

Would you like to use social media like Facebook, Twitter and blogging but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you know a little but would like to know more? Wahtever your level of knowledge, help is at hand – starting later this month, NEN is running a series of five informal social media workshops at Stockbridge Library. The sessions are informal, fun and they’re FREE!

Funded by Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership’s Community Grants Fund and hosted by the NEN, new media experts Tom Allan and Emily Dodd will lead the workshops and help you find your way through the multimedia maze at your own pace.

It’s an exciting new initiative for NEN, offering local people the opportunity to learn new ways to communicate and how to share their stories with the wider community.

The first workshop, ‘Share Your Story – an introduction to Blogging’, takes place on Thursday 30 August from 5.45 – 7.30pm and subsequent sessions will focus on topics like safety and security, video blogging, the joy of stats and how to build an online community.

Interested? To find out more or to sign up visit http://nengage1.eventbrite.co.uk/

All sessions are free, but register early to avoid disappointment!

 

 

Share your story – join NEN's social media workshops

Would you like to use social media like Facebook, Twitter and blogging but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you know a little but would like to know more? Wahtever your level of knowledge, help is at hand – starting later this month, NEN is running a series of five informal social media workshops at Stockbridge Library. The sessions are informal, fun and they’re FREE!

Funded by Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership’s Community Grants Fund and hosted by the NEN, new media experts Tom Allan and Emily Dodd will lead the workshops and help you find your way through the multimedia maze at your own pace.

It’s an exciting new initiative for NEN, offering local people the opportunity to learn new ways to communicate and how to share their stories with the wider community.

The first workshop, ‘Share Your Story – an introduction to Blogging’, takes place on Thursday 30 August from 5.45 – 7.30pm and subsequent sessions will focus on topics like safety and security, video blogging, the joy of stats and how to build an online community.

Interested? To find out more or to sign up visit http://nengage1.eventbrite.co.uk/

All sessions are free, but register early to avoid disappointment!