Digital Drop-in Mount Gambier

Facebook, Twitter, smartphones, tablets, wifi, wearables—The digital environment has a lot to offer artists and arts organisations, but knowing where to start or what you should be focusing your attention on can be confusing. Sometimes help pages and Google searches just don’t cut it, you really just need to ask someone.

RAA’s Digital Drop-in is your chance to ask your digital questions to digital experts from your community. There are no stupid questions and no technology off limits. So pour yourself a cuppa, pull up a chair and get the advice you need.

Joel Panther, IT specialist and Fee Plumley, nomadic geek artist and technoevangelist will be available to answer your questions.

HOW IT WORKS

A Digital Drop-in is a casual, collective chat. It’s all about questions and answers: attendees can ask anything they like, and the digital expert will give them a considered answer. If you can’t get there at the start, that’s ok, attendees are welcome to drop in and out of the session at any time.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Anyone can attend, but artists and musicians, staff of arts organisations and staff of local government authorities are encouraged to attend.

TOPICS

There are no set topics for each session, but topics might include: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, or other social media platforms; websites, mobile sites, responsive web design and smartphone apps; smartphones and tablets; databases, customer relationship management (CRM) systems and electronic direct mail (EDM) systems; content management systems (CMS), content production and management, copyright and rights management; or anything else you want to ask about.

Interested in having your questions answered? Be sure to register your attendance by visiting the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digital-drop-in-mount-gambier-tickets-12994931189

MORE INFORMATION

This Digital Drop-in event is co-hosted by RAA and Country Arts SA. It is part of SBAF14 (Screen Based Activity Fun) event. For more information about the Digital Drop-in events, or to contact RAA’s Digital Producer about hosting a Drop-in or registering as a digital expert, please see RAA’s webpage about the Program, http://regionalarts.com.au/digital-drop-in-events.

THE DIGITAL TALENT

Joel Panther has been working in Information Technology for the last 6 years, primarily contracted as a Computer Systems Manager for the Department of Education and Child Development. His roles have varied from basic IT support, through to server environments. Originally from Mount Gambier, he now resides in Adelaide where he is attending Flinders University to further his skills.

In 2011 Fee Plumley gave up her increasingly respectable career as a creative digital consultant in order to take up a new life as a bus-loving nomadic geek artist. In a reaction against the shift in global politics, she set out to discover how someone could disconnect as much as possible from a broken socio-political system while maintaining meaningful connection to the people and places which enable her own vision of home and self.

Image by Jeremy Keith, http://flic.kr/adactio/6153481666. Available for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.