Learning with the Fang

UPDATE:

• Official recording now available on thinkers.sa website
• A story within a story (Oli’s view of twitter chatter during the evening)
• A FaceBook group has emerged
• So far there have been 50 flickr photos, 7 technorati hits, 10 blogsearch.google hits of contributions tagged with sastories .

South Australia’s most recent thinker in residence, Dr Genevieve Bell wants to collect ‘one million’ stories to find out what makes South Australia tick. In her inaugural public lecture, Dr Bell threw out a challenge to the audience that I would like to extend to you, dear reader – to find ways of getting people involved.

Members of the audience were handed a postage paid postcard bearing an invitation to ‘Tell us about your technology’ – How do you stay connected? The internet? A mobile phone? On the grapevine? Tell us your stories, so we can see what makes SA tick!

While the official campaign to collect stories kicks off next year, eager beavers can get involved by:

• mailing one of the official postcards to Department of Premier & Cabinet
• visit sastories.com and follow instructions there
• TAG stuff online with sastories – flickr pic with long comment = excellent, blog post = cool (best with picture), del.icio.us for anything else U can think of…

Oh, and while you are at it – would be cool to know roughly what part of South Oz you are from (there will be a list of ‘regions’ to choose from on the website, but if you ain’t shy why not geotag yr stuff).

I tried to publish a semi-official podcast of the lecture from the Griffin’s head hotel (nearest spot with wifi) but my olde laptoppe ran out of batteries while I was chatting with some of my twitter buddies over a beer – hey there’s as story and it happened in Adelaide.

Lots more to say about that – and I see Dave (LifeKludger) Wallace has been assembling a story of his view of the event from afar… and Oli, assembled this view of the event from within, via twitter!

Fang – Mike Seyfang