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Professional IdentityUsing the Digital Environment.

• This unit draws together your experience of MP02 and collaborative

photography

• Sets out to develop your use of the web as an integral part of your practice and be ready to use the online environment to gain opportunities whilst on the course and going forward.

• Key to this is to be well informed and research where you intend to go post course and which practioners and organisations you need to work with in order to create opportunity.

• Online platforms present the opportunity to create a network or association of practitioners who are interested in similar idea subjects

• And place a creative and professional emphasis is placed on collaborative practice

• Blogs are immediate, easy to use and update, quickly posting comments, images and research, we start with that

• ProfiD

• Flakphoto

• oftheafternoon

• Blogspaces,

• sites posted by individuals or small groups that establish links between a

wide variety of source material, artists and information

• http://www.americansuburbx.com/

• Lensculture

• Iris

• Tent

• SeeSaw Magazine

• Using the previous links make an exploration of the possibilities of using

networks and blogs. Move on from observing or gathering info from isolated

content, and interact with networks and blogs, in doing this you are

creating new connections, possibilities and in turn, content by your

interaction.

• The final outcome is the blog but also your website, as we expereinecd in

MP02, you tend to work things out on the blog and then, move ‘finished

content’ towards the website, which you must all have, and it must be fit

for purpose:

• http://jmcolberg.com

• http://www.aaronschuman.com

• Also looking at other forms of professional profiling and social media

• Alex Keep

• Intern magazine

• Jonathan Shaw

• Storify