Just a quick post to let you know about a great group I volunteered with in Alexandria, VA. Computer CORE teaches computer skills to low-income adults and prepares them to get new jobs. After they complete the program, graduates are given refurbished computers to continue their skill development at home and with their families.
But at the moment, they NEED 57 FLASH DRIVES! Here’s more: CORE is in need of flash drives for our current students! Would you consider donating three flash drives today?
We need 57 flash drives to distribute to this session!!!
Donations of flash drives can be dropped off at the CORE offices between the following hours: Mon. – Thurs., 9:30am -2:30 pm AND 5:30 -6:30 pm.
Call Jumoke (703.931.7346 x101) to let us know how many you are able to give and this will help us keep track of how many flash drives we have en route!
Please forward this message to anyone who may be able to help. Many thanks for your continued support!
All the best,
Jumoke Adebimpe,
Community Outreach Manager
Computer C.O.R.E.
Wow, summer has been AMAZING! I’m working on the website for my business, and going in depth about the services I’m to provide both immediately and in the long term. For now, I’m able to provide Social Media and Video/Photo consulting services to small businesses. In the near future, I’ll add Training/Seminars around Multimedia to these same clients.
If you’ve been watching the blog (on the right-hand side), I’ve been twittering my little behind off about, well, everything. Of course, I love sharing anything I’ve learned as it could be useful to my community. Feel free to follow me!
So, along with the Tech Ministry at my church this past saturday, I had a chance to talk to some teens about Social Media and Social Networking. I honestly had no clue what to talk about since I wasn’t sure how they used (or wanted to use) technology in their everyday lives.
They were a great group though – most of them use Myspace and they have some really awesome career aspirations (Event Coordinator, Inventor, Shoe/Apparel Designer, Architect, Accountant, Graphics/Software Designer, etc). I wanted to show them that social networking is kind of like a playground and social media is what you create in order to share. Also, I included some interaction pieces in there to get them involved and to find out more about what they wanted to do with technology and what interested them, so most of the slides were for discussion.
The kids were really eager to talk and we got useful feedback – they wanted more hands-on stuff and also, pizza was the food of choice rather than subs!
After seeing posts from Tracy Boyer & Megan Taylor’s blogs on their own speaking engagements, I’m really excited to share more information with my network/community of techies, designers, writers and filmmakers (young and old alike).
In fact, I’d love to find speakers/attendee’s for a MultimediaCamp in the DC area this summer. I feel it would be a great chance for those that don’t traditionally work in creative technology to learn to bring their craft or story to a “global platform” (as Brian Storm put it) with multimedia. If you’re interested in speaking or attending, please let me know by filling out the interest form.
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