I’ve been in Melbourne the last couple of weeks, scoping out the tech/startup scene down under and when I return back to the hustle and bustle of London Town I wanted to ”pass the baton” to another young video blogger to keep the Techfluff.tv spirit well and truly alive!
I found Leila Bagundol, a RMIT media student, via Twitter (actually via Ross Hill tweeting to her), and a combination of looking at her media studies blog and tweets, led me to an interview with the social media enthusiast in Fed Sq last week.
I studied Media and Communications at University, and Hermione Way set up Techfluff.tv’s sister Internet video production company Newspepper.com, during her Journalism degree. She was being taught newspaper journalism only, at a time when newspapers are in decline (and in most cases still are). She wanted to be taught about video journalism and writing for the Internet and knew that even at local newspaper level journalists are having to video blog and learn a range of other skills to adapt to a profession that is rapidly changing.
After chatting with Leila, it seems that RMIT – one of Australia’s leading technology educators – have stepped up their game and have restructured their course to include more practical skills especially within the online sector. A great example is her group project titled Facebook as a Successful Business Tool.
Leila is graduating at the end of this year, and as part of her course, she is looking for an Internship – within an Australian-run company. Although Techfluff.tv beams straight from London and beyond, we’d like to welcome her to the Techfluff.tv family and have her video blog about the tech scene down in Melbourne. But if you are looking for an enthusiastic intern, I’d snap Leila right up!
If you want to get Leila to blog at you event get in contact with her via her twitter
lilleilalee
You can meet Leila during my interview here:
This was a post by @thatgirl_chloe I write about social media, tech news and random brits & pieces 
This was shot on a Kodak Zi8.
