My 5 most Important Sources of Information
Blackberry This would be the portal to communicating with family, friends and
business in my world. Receiving e-mails from my sources for
potential bookings and confirmation of bookings. I travel extensively by
road to jobs so the application for travel updates is important to me. Primarily I prefer to make phone calls as
speaking and connecting with my customers, teachers and staff may bring me
additional information.
Google/Internet As an initial search, I will use Google as
the facilitator for basic
information on any new topic I'm researching. It could be for a dance
project, company business profiles, and contact details. Like most
people that use the Internet for searching, Google will link me to connect with
the basic information I am looking for. Liam Conman calls this service ‘invaluable’.
Well, I certainly rely on it and would find it most difficult to function
without it as it is valuable for me and my business.
Face Book Face Book
is important to me for calendar of events, dance workshops, classes, some
advertising of goods relevant to my business and finding new contacts for
networking. I am thinking about setting up a page for business although I
shall keep my current Face Book page for social chit chat.
Youtube
Has endless source of ideas after filtering. I can reacquaint myself with some original
dance moves or sequence and find new moves to add to my repertoire. I
find new inspirational pieces of music from around the world. Although
for some of my choreography I like to have ideas naturally and organically evolve
as I listen to the music. The ‘how to’ videos are great for the step
by step instructions, not just for technical help in loading new applications but for other details such as make up applications
for various looks and themes.
My Blog My blog page is
very important to me as I work through my BAPP course. I can connect,
learn, express my views and ask questions to the students across the three
modules as well as communication with my advisers. The tasks have been
painful at times to understand and digest but as Phil Carrol mentions about some of the Readers has been like
‘reading through treacle’. After reading some of the students blogs I begin to understand the fundamentals as their understanding is explained clearly. I found Alicia Beck to have this ability in her quality of writing. My blog has been revealing, inspiring and on occasions some weird theorising emerges that smacks you in the face when you experience, as Paula Nottingham once said to me, that ‘light
bulb moment’
I do have other sources of information that
could be on a par with the five above that are useful to me and they are; TV,
Radio, DVD’s but fundamentally and most importantly I like to speak and meet
with people.
