@Dave: good work that man. Hope you didn’t find the role of ‘social editor’ too dull. I wonder if the next step is to involve the audience more in the reporting process – setting the expectation at the start of the day, if not before, that we’re all there to record and share our learnings, and that some output will be expected of everybody – even if it’s just a few comments?

This is still an area of experimentation and playing with stuff to see what works best. Am sure it will be a while before we get it right.

I was involved in this event with my Becta hat on and thought it worth responding to MJ Ray’s comment about Ning on mobile phones. You’re absolutely right – Ning isn’t great (yet) on mobile devices. I use both a blackberry and an iPhone. It’s wonderful on iPhone, but too clunky on blackberry. I think we need to be careful when using platforms, or in how we use them, to ensure users aren’t excluded. For example, I too love audioboo now but it currently is only good for iPhone users to really engage with.

Getting back to the point though, I was involved in setting up the Ning site for this event and I think it’s fair to say that that space really only works to hold the content together and provide ongoing reflection. The real value of social reporting is in it’s cross-platform nature. Social reporting when done well should never be just about one space. So, to some extent it doesn’t matter that Ning isn’t great on all mobiles, as the event was reported across twitter, audioboo and videoboo, and of course the power to grab RSS feeds also makes it more accessible. On the day, wi-fi issues meant I couldn’t access the ning site on my laptop easily, and mobile phone reception in the basement prevented the 3G card from working, but I still felt part of the online discussion through simply engaging through Twitter.