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Track 3: Broadcasting Your Information

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Now that you have all your files neatly organized and under control, you need to share these to the world and let others benefit from your own resources.

F/OSS content management systems, knowledge management tools, social networks, and mobile technologies make sharing easy and affordable. This track discussed how to maximize your reach on the Net.

The track "Broadcasting your information" had the following learning objectives:

- to know how to select appropriate FOSS tools to broadcast their information
- to have experience in using content management systems (Wordpress and Joomla)
- to know how to modify, create, edit multimedia content using FOSS tools
- to know how to promote their content through emails and RSS
- to build an 'offline' social network of the Track 3 participants

In addition, the track trained on the the following concrete Techical Skills:
- planning and blogging with Wordpress through the AS3 blog
- administration layer of Wordpress
- administration layer of Joomla
- editing photos with Gimp
- creating website headers with Gimp
- basic video editing with Kino
- basic audio editing with Audacity
- installing PhPList plug-ins for wordpress and Joomla
- setting up and aggregating RSS

All subjects discussed at the track as well as training material and related links are online at the collaborative wiki set up by and for track 3.

Information on all tracks and afternoon sessions can be found on the general wiki at http://www.iosnasean.net/as3/ .

The community of Asia Source 3 is online at http://www.as3community.iosnasean.net/.

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Asia Source 3 is jointly organized by UNDP's International Open Source Network (UNDP-IOSN) through its ASEAN+3 Centre of Excellence, InWEnt - Capacity Building International (Germany), Tactical Technology Collective (Netherlands), Aspiration (USA). The event is supported by The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), ASEAN Foundation and Open Society Institute”

07-12  NOVEMBER  2009
YEN CENTER, SILANG, CAVITE, PHILIPPINES