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The Talk About Local annual unconference happened this weekend in Cardiff. It’s a place where journalists and bloggers who provide news, views and information for a particular street, postcode, neighbourhood or area get together to discuss the what, why and wherefore of doing hyperlocal. I have a dual interest: as part of industry engagement on skills needed . . . → Read More: Talk About Local 2011: ‘doing’ local news from the ground up A round up of the Publishing session at Skillset Cymru’s networking careers day at The Millenium Centre in Cardiff. Includes useful links and resources mentioned during the session. . . . → Read More: Skillset Cymru networking and careers day: Publishing session useful links Skillset’s Publishing Sector Coordinator, Louise Franklin, reports on an initiative we are supporting this year. She writes: “We’re delighted to be supporting the Shine School Media Awards, which have been set up by The Stationers’ Foundation in association with leading media trade bodies and employers. They build on the success of the Scottish School Magazine Competition, launched . . . → Read More: Shine 2011 School Media Awards Over the last few years the acronym STEM has increasingly entered debates within the collective creative industries, and also at Skillset. Maybe now is the time to be promoting STEAM with the powerful addition of Art, and the way it harnesses multidisciplinary innovation and what’s more, adds huge economic value. Will our future students make the right choices in the new education marketplace presaged by Lord Browne? . . . → Read More: Why we need to be STEAM driven Live and direct from Norwich… not Sale of the Century, but #1000flowers – a conference/unconference talking about local TV. (Hat tip to the twitterati for the Nicholas Parsons gag). Organised by Rick Waghorn, journalists, entrepreneur and owner of Addiply, an online ad solution for websites, this is a brief summary of lunchtime’s opening session including Rick and . . . → Read More: #1000Flowers – Local TV discussed in Norwich
You may have heard that Skillset is running a skills and training needs survey for people working in the creative media industries. Common knowledge for many of you I know, but this is the first time Publishing has been included in Skillset’s formal research programme. As the Publishing Sector Manager (and being a bit of a swot) I’m keen . . . → Read More: Publishers: play your part in shaping future skills When times are tough, some actors have to swallow their pride, close their eyes and take the cheque. Never work with animals? Depends if the price (artistic or remunerative) is right. James Stewart co-starred with Lassie in The Magic of Lassie (1978) whereas Clyde the orangutan took the cheque and decided to team up with Clint Eastwood . . . → Read More: Greenscreen with Envy |
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