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Metapod Connect Intro to Social Media Concepts – the slides

Above are the slides for the talk I gave last Friday to launch the 6 month Metapod Connect course I’m running with Helga Henry at Fierce Earth. Unfortunately (and somewhat ironically) I’ve been too busy planning and delivering the course to blog about it at length but it’s all going rather well and I’m learning [...]

Post Digital

Things are still pretty busy at ASH-10 Towers and I’ve been saying no to a lot of stuff lately, which is a nice position to be in but does mean I’m not saying yes to the interesting things. One thing that slipped through the net is Toby Barnes’ Post Digital event which he’s holding to [...]

Shift Time in Shrewsbury

In July Shift Time, a festival of ideas, is happening in Shrewsbury. It last for a week (3rd – 12th) and sees a host of things happening based around Charles Darwin’s bicentenial. The big event is Theo Jansen who will be building a new Stranbeest in the town. You might remember Jansen from his TED [...]

A quick idea for Twitter use in large orgs

Twitter, as you’ll no doubt be bored to tears of hearing, can be used in as many ways are there are people using Twitter. But that doesn’t help you figure out how you might use Twitter. Catherine Bray just asked this:

I think unless you’re using it as a pure info feed (and there’s nothing necessarily [...]