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Telling Your Story - Showing and Sharing Your Work
The document discusses the concept of 'working out loud' as a means to share one's creative process and foster community engagement through social media. It emphasizes the importance of transparency in the crafting process, building relationships, and learning from others by sharing stories, experiences, and asking for feedback. Practical tips are provided for initiating sharing on social media platforms, including discussing goals, challenges, and resources needed.
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- 1. Telling Your Story:Showing & Sharing Your “Work Out Loud” on Social Media Craft Victoria: September 2016 Helen Blunden @ActivateLearn www.activatelearning.com.au
- 2. Who was yourinspiration on your craft and how?
- 3. Who Am I? Frustratedcorporate cubicle worker who discovered that the secret of building network & community was within her social knitting groups. Her life has never been the same because they shared…the secret...
- 4. “A lot ofpeople are so used to just seeing the outcome of work. They never see the side of the work you go through to produce the outcome.” —Michael Jackson
- 5. Share our craft storiesto our networks & communities
- 6. How? By WorkingOut Loud • Make the process of your craft (& thinking) visible in such a way that it inspires and helps others… • Build relationships with others • Be generous with your experience, stories & knowledge but also accept generosity (ask questions/seek input/encourage ideas to be shared) • Make the process of your work & your thinking visible (ask questions; seek feedback; engage your community) • Discover new things that will help you & others (& openly share, like and respond) • Be actively learning, open and curious through your craft (what if/how so/why not?) Reference: John Stepper, Working Out Loud
- 7. Me myself andmy knitting….
- 8. Ref: Carla LinkousMax Gallery - https://picasaweb.google.com/117581955737217911092/TasmaHouseAndGardens?feat=flashalbum#5528200767389515842 How Did I Find the Secret?
- 9. Should I goin or not? Who ARE these people?
- 16. How can you makea start to share your work out loud?
- 17. On your selectedsocial media (wherever your community is): - Share what you want to create and why? What’s the problem you’re trying to solve? - Explain your thoughts, questions, issues, concerns, ideas, opportunities, excitement! - Explain what tools, equipment,resources, you may need - why, what, when, how? - Who can help you? - Share each step of the way: the good and the bad - The outcome & Reflection of Learning = Community Building
- 18. Snapchat OR InstagramSTORIES – anything really!
- 19.
Editor's Notes
- #2 Thank introducer and opportunity to speak at Craft Victoria on a topic I’m most passionate about and for an organisation that supports fellow crafters!
- #3 Who here was inspired by someone to get into their craft? Who is also on social media sharing their story?
- #4 Introduce myself. I call myself a social learning consultant – helping organisations to look at how to build collaborative learning opportunities into the work itself through the use of different social tools and platforms with the aim of getting people to talk to each other, be inspired with ideas from each other so they could be applied to work. I’m also a knitter – been knitting over 35 years and have a community of fellow knitters in groups and online communities and networks that I learn from.
- #5 In my work, which involves pretty much knowledge work – lots of my ideas are in my head.
- #6 However we now are in an extraordinary time where we can share our stories and our work through social media as well as create online communities of people who are the same or even different from us who love our work, are inspired by it – or even share their ideas.
- #7 I call it that we can now work out loud. Making the process of your craft (your thinking around it) visible that it helps and inspires others.
- #8 It took me my passionate and love for knitting to have the penny dropped as to how it could work for my own work – and it applies to pretty much any job, any field, craft or business.
- #9 Many years ago I was invited to a knit camp in Daylesford to spend a weekend knitting with strangers.
- #10 As I waited in the car, I figured, should I go in, who are these people? How can they help me?
- #11 When I entered the house, I saw this….
- #12 People sitting around talking about their work, their yarn, their patterns, their needles, their stories – collaborative and social learning at its best for the improvement of the craft and the community,
- #13 Knitters had social tools such as their ipads and also Instagrammers, Bloggers, Vloggers, YouTube channels and were using these tools for the purposes of teaching others.
- #14 They also have online communities such as Ravelry,
- #15 Knitters proud to show their work – imagine these beautiful pieces from the Bendigo Wool Show – if people explained what went into them,
- #16 Knitters follow patterns but the beauty of patterns is that this is a guide. You may look at a pattern and follow it to a tee – however, what happens is that you customise it to create your own creation. This knowledge as it is written by the person is set but we don’t know the background and the inspiration. Why did they choose that type of yarn? Examples of such knitting patterns shows us that we will all put our own spin on things and create things for ourselves.