Spotlight on…. University of the Arts London October 13, 2009
Posted by Jacquie Kelly in : Collaborative Tools, Trials, BCE , trackbackUniversity of the Arts London
The University of the Arts London have been developing their project titled: OPEN-i: Developing an Online Community of Practice for Photojournalists and they have achieved much since the projects inception in March 2009. One of the first tasks was to recruit a Project Administrator and set up and initial editorial board for the project. The OPEN-i community website launched on the Ning platform at the end of June 2009 and had been a great success. As of 11 October 2009 membership stood at 409 with a variety of members from academic, industry, practitioner and student levels. They have now held 2 very successful webinars with 100 attendees in total plus a substantial number of people who have viewed them in the archive, 15 other events and 29 discussions.
Another of their activities was the setting up of project management wiki, which has proved to be a very powerful tool for running the project and communicating/collaborating between the project team who are not based at the same location. The project director has attended major industry events and conferences to help disseminate concept of OPEN-I and gather assets for the network such as video interviews. This has been instrumental in raising the profile of the project.
Over the next six months the project will continue to develop and maintain the network allowing for membership to determine the agenda and direction as well as holding regular webinars and attend industry events and conferences to promote network and gather more assets for it.
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