This live webinar on Saturday April 10th at 10am GMT will feature work from photographers living and working in South East Asia, who will discuss the challenges and benefits of working in the region.
The webinar will include
1, Jack Picone - Thailand 2, Justin Mott - Vietnam 3, Veejay Villafranca - Philippine 4, Rony Zakaria - Indonesia
Coordinator: Yumi Goto, Host: Paul Lowe, OPEN-I
OPEN-i uses Wimba Classroom to host its interactive webinars. Depending on the format of each webinar, there are options to interact with the presenters and other listeners by chat, voice, video, emoticons and voting.
If you can't make it, don't worry, all our webinars are archived in text, video and audio formats.
Please follow these instructions to join the webinar and ensure you have the best experience:
1. RSVP to the event to be updated of last minute changes and related postings. 2. Verify the start time. All our webinars are scheduled for the GMT timezone. Please check your timezone here. 3. Sign in early. We recommend you sign in to the webinar at least 15 minutes prior to the session to ensure everything is working. Ideally you should have a headset/mic combo to fully participate, but this is not essential. Each presentation will start with a quick guide on how the tools will be used for that webinar so try not to miss it. 4. Get help. If you have any trouble logging in or during the webinar:
* Check out the Wimba Classroom Help Guide. * Send a private chat to one of the organizers during the session. * Contact OPEN-i using the 'OPEN-i Chat' on the bottom right corner of this page. Or you can send us a message.
OPEN-i is a global online community of practice for the professional photojournalism industry. It uses web 2.0 social networking tools and live web conferencing to provide an arena to encourage serious debate about the direction of the profession in the age of social networking, bringing together professionals, stakeholders and interested parties ranging from individual photographers, photo agencies, large-scale news operations like the wire services, editors, consumers of images, galleries, academics and critics, educators and aspiring entrants to the profession in the form of postgraduate students and early career photographers.
OPEN-i is centred around a series of live webinars and discussion sessions presented by leading industry professionals. Debates will take place monthly starting in July 2009 over a one-year trial period, and will seek to ask challenging questions about the future development of the industry. Network members will be invited to attend, and all presentations will be archived and accessible online.