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[ September 28, 2011; 10:00 am to 5:30 pm. ] As part of Renaissance East Midlands training programme we are running our one day Podcasting workshop at the Phoenix square in Leicester. The workshop will show you how to collect stories, case studies, interviews and sound effects which you can use to create engaging podcasts to contribute to your collections. You will gain practical experience of audio editing, creating MP3 files and sharing your podcast online.

OneTwoEight is a small community centre in Myddleton Road, North London, which aims to create a space for the local community to come together for different groups and projects. sounddelivery was commissioned to produce an intergenerational project, titled “My Bowes Park”, to bring young and older people together from the local area and create a snapshot of what it’s like to live in the Bowes Park area.

After the success of our Web in Feb training month last year we’re running a Master the Web in Feb series again. The month will include training days, a networking event and a free social media surgery.

Better still, if you book 2 places for any of our courses we’ll offer you a third place half price.

We’re thrilled to have started 2011 will a flourish. sounddelivery has been commissioned by the charity Carers UK to produce a series of multi-media case studies using audio, video and photography. These stories will be hosted on a soon to-be-launched website as well as by other departments with the organisations.

[ October 6, 2011; 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. ] The one day Powerful Podcasting course will teach you how to carry out interviews and learn the skills you need to collect stories and case studies for your organisation. You’ll learn how to structure your interviews and podcasts, edit your material using Audacity, create an RSS feed to host your podcasts on iTunes and take advantage of audio sharing sites like AudioBoo and SoundCloud.

In our latest podcast for Society Guardian we get under skin of charity campaigns and campaigning – what are the best ways to engage supporters and trustees alike. We take a look back at the recent party conferences and look ahead to the impending Spending Review and examine how its likely to affect the sector. Featuring contributions from Tom McLaren-Webb, Head of Campaigns at Action for Children and social entrepreneur, Craig Dearden Phillips.

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The nominations are out for this year’s Sony Awards – the audio equivalent of the Oscars and its great to see UK charities up there with the likes of the BBC and commercial radio giants. Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Prison Radio Association have been listed for their community programming, and a sounddelivery favourite – the Hackney Podcast – has been nominated in the Best Internet Programme Category.

“Voluntary sector”, “charity”, “civil society”, “social action”, “social enterprise”. How should we best describe the third sector? This is the subject of the first of a series of podcasts about the challenges facing not-for-profit organisations, produced by sounddelivery for societyguardian.

sounddelivery was asked to attend One in Four’s Conference: Talking About Mental Health-Getting it Right. The half-day conference aimed to spark a debate about how to communicate sensitively and appropriately about mental health. Speakers included Tony Blair’s former Director of Communications, Alastair Campbell, and Jacqui Thornton, the former health editor of The Sun. Click below to listen to the podcast:

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sounddelivery has been invited to deliver a series of social media courses on behalf of MLA London. We’ll be delivering our social media knowhow, digital storytelling and podcasting courses to staff from Museums, Libraries and Archives based round the capital in October and November.