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<b>Next Featured Topic: "our telecentre experiences"<br><br>
Calling all telecentre enthusiasts, managers and users -
telecentre.org wants to hear your telecentre stories!<br><br>
</b>Do any of these sound like you? <br><br>
<i>You manage, use, and dream about telecentres. <br>
You've seen a telecentre grow from a tiny initiative into a community
wonder.<br>
You re involved with a network of telecentres which is evolving
regionally or even nationally. <br>
You ve helped a telecentre through rough years of financial uncertainty.
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You ve learned how a network of telecentres can emerge and grow into
other places.<br>
You have so many fond and bitter memories of experiences working with
telecentre(s).</i> <br><br>
If so, we want you to share your stories! <br><br>
We know that your telecentre and telecentre network stories are so
captivating, valuable and empowering for others involved in the
telecentre movement to hear. This is why we want you to speak up and
share your experiences with the world! How? telecentre.org will be
featuring your stories in our next featured topic called My telecentre
experience. <br><br>
<b>To be included, please contribute your thoughts, experiences, stories
on your telecentre or telecentre network by the 8th of January,
2006</b>.<br><br>
How can you contribute?<br><br>
Well, there are three ways...<br>
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1. <b>You can write a blog</b> at
<a href="http://www.telecentre.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.telecentre.org</a>
Note, if you do not already have an account with us, you register at <a href="http://www.telecentre.org/user/register" eudora="autourl">http://www.telecentre.org/user/register</a> Once you have registered and are logged in, you can write your blog entry at: <a href="http://www.telecentre.org/node/add/blog" eudora="autourl">http://www.telecentre.org/node/add/blog</a> (Please note, you won't be able to write a blog entry unless you're registered and logged in). <br><br>
Writing a blog entry at telecentre.org site is very easy it's like writing an online journal. For more help with writing a blog entry, please visit our help document at: <a href="http://www.telecentre.org/support-pages/how-to-share-a-story" eudora="autourl">http://www.telecentre.org/support-pages/how-to-share-a-story</a> If you still have questions, please feel free to write to us at <i>kate@takingitglobal.org</i> or <i>psarker@idrc.ca</i> or <i>cbure@idrc.ca<br><br>
</i>2. <b>You can share a picture and a description of your telecentre</b> with us at:<br>
<a href="http://www.telecentre.org/node/add/image" eudora="autourl">http://www.telecentre.org/node/add/image<br><br>
</a>Please provide some information in the description box, such as, what this picture is about, approximate date of picture taken, location and a brief description of the telecentre etc.<br><br>
<b>You can even send a picture by email</b>! It s very simple. Just and attach your picture to an email message and put your photo s description as the email subject and send it to: theory65disk@photos.flickr.com We'll take care of the rest. <br><br>
Any problems? Please visit out HELP file 'how to add a picture' at" <a href="http://wsis.telecentre.org/how-to-add-a-picture" eudora="autourl">http://wsis.telecentre.org/how-to-add-a-picture</a> and you can get step by step instruction there. You still can write to us at <i>kate@takingitglobal.org</i> or <i>psarker@idrc.ca</i> or <i>cbure@idrc.ca</i>, if you have problems. <br>
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3. <b>You can literally speak up in your own voice and have that audio file podcasted at our site</b>. How? <br><br>
There are 2 simple ways.<br>
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A. <b>You can call our Yahoo or Skype ID</b>. If you're using <i>YAHOO MESSENGER</i> or <i>SKYPE</i>, please add our contact ID : <b>telecentres_hotline </b>at your list.<br><br>
Once you add this contact, you can double click the contact (even if this is offline) and can click to CALL. After 4-5 rings, you will be connected to our voice mail box, where you can leave your story for us. In Yahoo you will get 2 minutes and in Skype you will get 10 minutes to record your voices but if you think this time limit is not sufficient, then please feel free to leave another message. Obviously you'd need a microphone to record your voices. <br><br>
We'd strongly recommend that you give us a brief introduction of yourself, your location and the telecentre/network of telecentres that you'd be talking about. If you have problem, please write us at: <i>kate@takingitglobal.org</i> or <i>psarker@idrc.ca</i> or <i>cbure@idrc.ca<br><br>
</i>OR<br><br>
B. You can simply record your voice in any audio device and can send it to us. You can use a microphone or any other recording tool to record your voices, save it and send it to us. You probably would need a software to capture your voice. Usually Windows system come with SOUND RECORDER but you can use any other audio editing software for that. For instructions on how to record your voice, please visit these resources (these are not our resources) on the web: <br><br>
<a href="http://www.computerhope.com/software/soundrec.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.computerhope.com/software/soundrec.htm<br>
</a><a href="http://homerecording.about.com/od/basictechniques/" eudora="autourl">http://homerecording.about.com/od/basictechniques/<br>
</a><a href="http://www.aaevp.com/techniques/technique_evp10.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.aaevp.com/techniques/technique_evp10.htm<br><br>
</a>Best wishes and we look forward to hearing your interesting responses on your telecentre experiences!<br><br>
telecentre.org team<br>
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