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Surgery, BARG and Cafe

The next three days see three events in Birmingham with a social media angle to them. I plan to go to all of them.
First up on Wednesday evening is the third Social Media Surgery for Voluntary Groups organised by Nick Booth where folks who know something about this blogging lark are encouraged to give [...]

Don’t forget to share your story

Sharing. It’s the new rock and roll. Everyone’s doing it, giving away their knowledge and ideas left right and centre. Not a moment goes by without me coming across somebody who’s telling me to check out a cool link to a thing that will be really useful. The problem is it’s often like someone enthusiastically [...]

Tracking comments with Delicious.com

I’ve been using the social bookmarking service Delicious.com for more and more things recently, very few of them related to traditional bookmarking. I’m planning to write more about how I use it as I think it illustrates a lot of interesting things about the underlying technology of the social web, but for now he’s a [...]

Crowdsourcing SXSWi support

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I’ve decided not to accept any official funding to go to SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas this March. As the application processes went on it became apparent that what they wanted to fund and what I wanted to do were pretty incompatible and the requirements not worth my while. I’m definitely going to [...]

I’m back

As of today I’m back. The jetlag has pretty much cleared and I’m heading to the Custard Factory this afternoon so that makes it official.
The last few weeks have been very useful for me, giving me a bit of distance from everything that’s happening both in the social media world and in Birmingham and [...]