SMWGla Legacy
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Social Media Week Glasgow linked up with Creative Scotland to produce some legacy items that would demonstrate the power of the online world to promote creativity and provide a mechanism for people to re-imagine themselves as creatives.
These were:
- SpokenHerd, A Crowdsourced Audiobook
- Very Short Stories (VSS) Book
- Social Media and Mobile Communication Seminars
- A Crowdsourced Tartan
twintangibles teamed up with Cargo Publishingand Inner Ear to produce a most unique audiobook of some of the best poems and essays from Classic and Contemporary Scottish Literature. SpokenHerd is a crowdsourced audiobook: it has been co-created by a group of people who gathered together on the web. The audiobook has been released on Burns Night 2012.
The recorded pieces can he listened to and downloaded on the soundcloud site for Spokenherd found here: http://soundcloud.com/spokenherd.
The collection is as follows:
- One Year The Door Will Open’ by Ryan Van Winkle narrated by Craig Lawrie
- The Six O’Clock News’ by Tom Leonard narrated by Fiona Karen Alexander
- To A Mouse’ by Robert Burns narrated by Fiona Karen Alexander
- The Tay Bridge Disaster’ by William McGonagall narrated by Kenny Gregory
- Mrs Darwin’ by Carol Ann Duffy narrated by Mairi Campbell-Jack
- A Scotsman’s Return From Abroad’ by RL Stevenson narrated by Robert Kirkwood
- Hamnavoe’ by George Mackay Brown narrated by Rosemary Cunningham
- Ode To A Haggis’ by Robert Burns narrated by Sarah Morrison
- Braw Lads O Galla Water’ by Robert Burns narrated by Colin Irons
- Invitation’ by Marion Angus narrated by Juliette Llewellyn
- ‘A Man’s a Man’ by Robert Burns narrated line by line by assorted voices
Working with Cargo Publishing, a Glasgow based publisher, and the design team at Branding Boutique, twintangibles launched a project whereby anyone could tweet a 140 character story about any of the cities participating in Social Media Week alongside Glasgow.
We had a terrific response and the top 30 stories were selected by Simon Sylvester, author of the book of Twitter poetry “140 Characters”, and bound into a book which we have been handing out to an appreciative public ever since.
With the numbers of hard copy running out now, and to bring it to an international audience we decided to make a PDF version available here: Very Short Stories [*.pdf]
Social Media and Mobile Communication Seminar for Creative Scotland
The following seminars have been produced by twintangibles and Inner Ear as part of an agreement with Creative Scotland to deliver 10 seminars on different topics related to Social Media and Mobile Communication and they are available as a legacy item on Social Media Week Glasgow YouTube Channel.
- Digital Audience Development – by Anny Deery, Inner Ear
- How to make friends and retweet people: an introduction to Social Media for the 3rd Sector – by Sara Thomas
- Social Media and SEO – by Martin Jordan, Equator
- Meeting Users halfway with Responsive Design – by Jamie Boyd, Equator
- Measuring Social Media ROI – by Emma Ramsay, Equator
- Social Media and IP – by Dougal Perman, Inner Ear and Murray Buchanan, MBM Commercial LLP
- Social Media Campaign Planning – by Dougal Perman and Andy McColgan, Inner Ear
- Podcasting for Beginners – by Cameron King, University of the West of Scotland
- Business Blogging for Beginners – by Ryan Wenstrup-Moore, Social Chemistry
- Crowdfunding Seminar – by Tim Wright, twintangibles
A Crowdsourced Tartan
Tartan, internationally recognised as an icon of Scotland, is as alive today as it has always been, and new tartans are commissioned and created to act as brands and identifiers for families, businesses and institutions. Social Media Week Glasgow continued that tradition, by having its own official tartan, crowdsourced through a Tartan Design competition. People were invited to create their tartan design and submit it to us. The designs were considered for a short list of designs by a jury including Alan Shaw of the Glasgow School of Art Centre for Advanced Textiles ; Gillian Kyle, the renowned Scottish designer; Laurent Chatelet, a designer from our city sponsors equator; and Brian Wilton, Director of the Scottish Tartan Authority. The finalists were then announced to the world for an open vote. The winner of the competition, announced on the 19th of September 2011, was Duncan McDougal.
The project was made possible by Creative Scotland, in association with the Glasgow School of Art, the Scottish Tartan Authority, twintangibles, New Media Corp, and Equator.
