It has been an action-packed few months in February and March. Including the start of the year's major awareness events with a combination and participation. Active IWD Expo I attended a face-to-face for International Women's Day for the first time. During the event, I was spreading the word about my awareness initiative "Plus Value Awareness". Attending different seminars and panellists including Women in the media, disability in the workplace and a special video presentation embracing women and dancing. Read by artlce on the highlights of attending this event. Find your Voice Workshop Attended a workshop to improve the know-how of video reels for social media. The workshop "Find your Voice", (hosted by musician and educator Nicole Justice) has enabled me and other attendees to develop video reels. To coincide with attending the workshop, I have trailed the development of a video reel including presenting on screen, filming and using editing software specifically for social media. My trail video reels for social media include presenting to the camera with sharing highlights and my experience of attending different events and workshops within a six day period. You can view this by selecting the link to the video reels on Instagram. Photography & Video Show I also attended the photography and video show discovering to embrace photography and video with special presentations on social media video trends. During the event, I met some inspiring people including Lattie Lovett-Dunn, Simone Stocks, and Gavin Howey with Chloe. Click here to view the highlights article Creative & Awareness As part of transforming my awareness website, two major developments were made. Redesigned and relaunching the awareness feature Unity Forward The recent developments Include revamping the feature Unity Forward the information and encouragement feature, originally developed during the pandemic. This includes new visual designs to present these features along with a new family of social media templates. Also a new family of visual art used for blog articles for supporting events. Visit the Plus Value Awareness to explore the "Unity Forward" feature Click on the project page on how this has been develope since 2020 New Neurodiversity mini-feature Also, a new special Neurodiversity index from the "Awareness focus" features making it easier for everyone to access customised projects and articles on Neurodiversity all year round. Visit this mini-feature via my awareness website Plus Value Awareness Specially created visual art for supporting awareness events In aupporting different events during march a family of visual art was developed with two was created for International Womens Day / Women's History Month, one was developed for International Day of Happiness and one was created for Neurodiversity Celebration Week Visit the project page illustrating awareness to see these and similar exampels Awareness March began a year of different awareness events happening in the same month. My awareness website presented online Special for the following events: International Women's Day, International Day of Happiness and Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Each online special contains new original articles for supporting each event, along with previous customised and recommended projects. Customised social media stories & post templates were made to support each event. Orginal awareness content for supporting events During this occasion, the online special for International Women's Day & Women's History Month was redesigned under the themed presentation "Equality+Value" You can access the developments during March by visiting the Events+ index of the plus value awareness website. Attending Awareness Events Dyslexia Show Just before Neurodiversity Celebration Week, I attended the annual Dyslexia Show the expo and conferences that showcase Dyslexia and Neurodiversity. University of Birmingham Workshop I took part in a special workshop at the University of Birmingham addressing how open spaces can be accommodating for a neurodiverse person, especially at education and places of work. The event was organised by the Neurodiversity Staff support group at the university. Naidex Also during the same week, I attended the accessibility and inclusion expo Naidex. As well as spreading awareness of my awareness initiative I have attended a variety of different seminars and panel discussions including a live interview with Broadcaster and campaigner Roman Kemp. To find out more about my experiences at Dyslexia Show, the workshop "In Spaces" and event Naidex by reading the blog of my highlights during Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Find out on my interactions to the key gueusts and presenter when attending the mention event by vsiting a special blog article Scroll up this article page under Creative & active for the redesign of the Unity Forward feature and a new mini-feature on Neurodiversity In progress Further developments are happening behind the scenes. This includes the continuation of the process of transforming two awareness features into one integrated feature on information, customised projects and statistics. Visit the Plus Value Awareness webpage for details. Also, preparation to redesign the special feature "Difference Originals" including a new information project coming in April called Challenging Attitudes. Watch out for all my developments here on this website & updates by following me on social media Notice to editors
Keith Mckenzie Keith is an awareness campaigner, a creative designer (Graphic design and digital art) and a salsa dancing participant With a background in Art & Design (including Graphic Design & Digital art) and a participant in music-related film documentaries, events & record label project King Of the Beats including filming and behind the scene preparations. Keith was educated at Hereford College of the Arts, the University of Northampton, Birmingham City University and Google's Digital Garage. Since 2000, he has developed over twenty years in providing awareness projects, campaigns and activities with the Awareness brand Plus Value Awareness along with Differences Originals. Also are involved with salsa classes in the local community as an assistant. Also have participated in major dancing conventions twice a year at Birmingham's NEC for Birmingham Latinmotion and London's ManboCity. In 2022, Keith become a featured community participant for Birmingham who became part of special projects and campaigns to promote a positive legacy beyond hosting the commonwealth games
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The online feature I developed back in 2020 which originally provided encouragement and information during the pandemic is now relaunched with a new look As part of transforming my awareness website "Plus Value Awareness", the "Unity Forward" feature is revamped with updated information with appropriate information and short messages beyond the pandemic The online feature will continue to include the elements: Morale & Accomplishment Consideration & Sense of Belonging Mindset and Allowances Well-being and stability The Unity Forward feature will also provide links to the information and helplines for those who might need it. This particular information is presented on the page “In-touch” As part of the changes, the overall look is completely redesigned with new style visual designs. This is presented with the removal of colour coding to distinguish each element. The information presented on this feature is to be updated and modified over a period of time. A new updated version of the "Unity Forward" insight document is to be developed and will be available to download after the new updated documents are complete. Visit the combined project page on the development of this project since 2020 Notice to editors:
Keith is an awareness campaigner, a creative designer (Graphic design and digital art) and a salsa dancing participant With a background in Art & Design (including Graphic Design & Digital art) and a participant in music-related film documentaries, events & record label project King Of the Beats including filming and behind the scene preparations. Keith was educated at Hereford College of the Arts, the University of Northampton, Birmingham City University and Google's Digital Garage. Since 2000, he has developed over twenty years in providing awareness projects, campaigns and activities with the Awareness brand Plus Value Awareness along with Differences Originals. Also am involved with salsa classes in the local community as an assistant. Also have participated in major dancing conventions at Birmingham's NEC including Motion City (created by Birmingham Latinmotion and London's ManboCity) during the summer and Latinmotion's NYE Fest during the New Year public holiday. In 2022, Keith became a featured community participant for Birmingham who became part of special projects and campaigns to promote a positive legacy beyond hosting the Commonwealth Games A new permanent mini-online feature on Neurodiversity is now available for the first time. As part of the transformation of my awareness website "Plus Value Awareness", the new focus neurodiversity index is part of the rolling out revamping of the online feature “Awareness Focus” Previously, all neurodiversity content was limited to the support page of the celebration week in the spring months. For the first time, all neurodiversity content and information is now available to access all year round online. The new mini-features will include Neurodiversity related blog articles and focused projects along with direct links to special developments by the project director. As my awarerness website covers selected areas of Neurodiversity it is important to remind the bigger picture of all types of neurodivergent regardless of difficulties. This feature will expand further with the information and statistics. The new Neurodiversity edition of the Awareness Focus is now available via the Plus Value Awareness Website. Notice to editors: Keith is an awareness campaigner, a creative designer (Graphic design and digital art) and a salsa dancing participant With a background in Art & Design (including Graphic Design & Digital art) and a participant in music-related film documentaries, events & record label project King Of the Beats including filming and behind the scene preparations. Keith was educated at Hereford College of the Arts, the University of Northampton, Birmingham City University and Google's Digital Garage. Since 2000, he has developed over twenty years in providing awareness projects, campaigns and activities with the Awareness brand Plus Value Awareness along with Differences Originals. Also am involved with salsa classes in the local community as an assistant. Also have participated in major dancing conventions at Birmingham's NEC including Motion City (created by Birmingham Latinmotion and London's ManboCity) during the summer and Latinmotion's NYE Fest during the New Year public holiday. In 2022, Keith became a featured community participant for Birmingham who became part of special projects and campaigns to promote a positive legacy beyond hosting the Commonwealth Games |
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