Monthly Archives: March 2009

Surgery for Voluntary Groups this Wednesday

Sorry for the late notice on this one but Nick Booth is marshaling the bloggers and social media types in Birmingham to provide another Social Media Surgery for voluntary / community groups and charities this Wednesday, March 25th. Drop in … Continue reading

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Barcamps are (probably) easy

I experienced a couple of related things today at SXSW. At 1.30pm I connected back home using Skype to WXWM where 30 Brummies were running their own mini SouthBy in the upstairs room of the Kitchen Garden Cafe in Kings … Continue reading

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SXSWi bound

As you probably have gathered by now I’m off to Austin tomorrow for the South by Southwest Interactive festival, or SXSWi. I went last year and, without exaggeration, it pretty much changed my life, contextualising everything I’d been thinking about … Continue reading

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Social Media Strategy course for Arts Organisations

This spring and summer I’m co-running a course for arts organisations in the West Midlands where they’ll devise and develop a bespoke social media strategy. The course is being run with Helga Henry from Fierce under their Metapod banner with … Continue reading

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Hacking the Government

I and others will talk a lot about “setting data free” so it can be used in ways the original owners hadn’t thought of or simply weren’t able to do, usually to the benefit of said owners. Often this can … Continue reading

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