i-create and online portfolios
Earlier today I went to MANCAT for a workshop on a new creative portfolio system called i-create. Unfortunately, I did not find the correct bus stop in town and my taxi took me to the wrong campus. Apparently the New Technology Institute is not the same place as the Moston campus. MANCAT have two campuses in Moston! So I called Abi and she drove me between the two campuses.
Everyone was introducing each other so I had missed nothing and more people turned up later anyway. The service is in the test phase at the moment and will become live between April and June. However they are short of creative people and online portfolios (the target is 700). The session went well and 'The Last Mile' (the organisers) presented the background and need for such an e-commerce service. We reviewed some profiles - I just had to stand up and express how cheesy and desperate the 'camera crew' were! Then we had an hour to put up our own portfolios (start to do this). However my image and audio files just would not upload onto the server (I found out later that there is a 10Mb limit per file).
The Website address is http://www.lastmile.tribalctad.co.uk/ and they are looking for more creative people to get involved and upload their work for potential employers. In terms of function the site lies between a jobsearch site where you can upload a demo and a personal Website where the artist has to create everything and hope that someone out there notices. It looks like a very useful resource and I will need to get some of my work onto it. I also wish them the best of luck.
Everyone was introducing each other so I had missed nothing and more people turned up later anyway. The service is in the test phase at the moment and will become live between April and June. However they are short of creative people and online portfolios (the target is 700). The session went well and 'The Last Mile' (the organisers) presented the background and need for such an e-commerce service. We reviewed some profiles - I just had to stand up and express how cheesy and desperate the 'camera crew' were! Then we had an hour to put up our own portfolios (start to do this). However my image and audio files just would not upload onto the server (I found out later that there is a 10Mb limit per file).
The Website address is http://www.lastmile.tribalctad.co.uk/ and they are looking for more creative people to get involved and upload their work for potential employers. In terms of function the site lies between a jobsearch site where you can upload a demo and a personal Website where the artist has to create everything and hope that someone out there notices. It looks like a very useful resource and I will need to get some of my work onto it. I also wish them the best of luck.
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