Comments on: Neill Cameron – accidental social media WIN

By: Neill Cameron’s next project: Hashtag Funnies | The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:03:21 +0000

[...] his A-Z of Awesomeness, which recently featured on Pete Ashton’s blog as an example of social networking success, Neill Cameron has returned with another daily [...]

By: Carl Timms

Carl Timms — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:45:08 +0000

Great article Pete. Some timely exposure for Neill who is very unselfconsciously doing a lot of greta things in social media. I picked up on the A-Z around F after you posted a tweet about it and ended up contributing ideas on Facebook, buying the poster and following Neill’s tweets and RSS.

Enjoying the hashtag funnies too- the guy is seriously talented and deserves more exposure so well done for taking the time to write this well-observed post. You’ve managed to get a name check on his blog for it too so he’s paying attention :)

By: Garen

Garen — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:57:17 +0000

Ha – you’re absolutely right, Pete – when I saw how Neill took his A-Z that little bit further I immediately realised what the difference was. In purely numerical terms I attracted about 150 new people to my work (with about 230 or so signed up on Facebook). I stopped counting when I saw Neill’s shoot over 500. Brilliant (and I got a poster :-)). Excellent article, great food for thought.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:06:27 +0000

Ah yes, I meant to bring Richard Herring into this. Thanks for the reminder.

As for streaming actual warm-ups, maybe. I know the ones we’ve been doing for the Birmingham Opera chorus have been interesting, covering posture and breathing. Hmm.

By: rayclenshaw

rayclenshaw — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:01:36 +0000

Thanks for this Pete - not only an interesting post but you've introduced me to another cool artist!

The whole idea of sharing something that others might perceive as a by-product reminded me a bit of Richard Herring's 'Warming Up' pieces, which I'm a fan of: http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup.

It's also got me thinking about how I might be able to persuade the creative people I work with to share some of the activities and processes they regularly undertake but would never have considered interesting to anyone else.

Just off the top of my head, and thinking literally about warming up, I wonder how many fitness fans and wannabe dancers would enjoy watching, and joining in at home, with a professional dance company's pre-show, warm-up session, streamed live from a theatre's stage?