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Obama’s People

April 19th, 2009 | 2 comments

About four weeks ago Rhonda WIlson from Rhubarb Rhurbarb, a photography agency based in Birmingham, asked me if I’d come over for a chat. She had a new project on the go and thought I might be interested in getting involved. It turned out to be Obama’s People, a series of 53 portraits of Barack [...]

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Brumbloggers meet next Tuesday

April 7th, 2009 | Comments are closed

It’s funny how quickly this stuff moves on. When the first of these took place 15 months ago it made perfect sense to call it a meeting of Birmingham Bloggers. Now it seems a little out of date, at least to me anyway. It’s more Birmingham Bloggers And Related Persons Of That Ilk, I guess. [...]

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Black Country Social Media Cafe

April 6th, 2009 | Comments are closed

Tomorrow afternoon I’m speaking at the inaugural Black Country Social Media Cafe in Wolverhampton. It starts at 2.30pm at Alchemy Bar on North Street and I understand it’ll relocate each month to other cities and towns in the region.
I’ll be talking alongside Chris Unitt and we’ve been asked to recount our experiences at SXSW [...]

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Off-peak space in Broad Street

April 3rd, 2009 | One comment

Photo by Francescerous
Today I was at the Aquila offices on Birmingham’s Broad Street to chat with Julia about this and that. During my visit we we joined by Caroline Ashton (no relation I’m aware of) from the Broad Street Business Improvement District which brings together the businesses in the area to work together to pool [...]

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Creative Republic looking for events committee

April 2nd, 2009 | Comments are closed

Creative Republic is a lobbying and networking organisation run by and for the creative industries in the West Midlands. They’re forming an events committee to develop their 2009 program of industry workshops, panel sessions and networking evenings amongst other things.
What I find interesting about this is the scope for running events is pretty wide. [...]

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