About Pete Ashton

Pete
Photo by Stef Lewandowski

This is my business website. For the rest of my life and interests go to peteashton.com.

Pete Ashton is an online communications consultant specialising in social media and blogging. He offers consultancy and training under the ASH-10 banner to help businesses, organisations and individuals understand how people use the Internet in a conversational, one-to-one way. At this time he specialises in the Arts and hyperlocal blogging but can apply his knowledge to most areas.

Clients include Fierce Earth with whom he’s delivering a 6 months social media strategy course for Arts Council funded organisations, Shropshire Council, 4ip funded project Talk About Local, Rhubarb Rhubarb and Cadbury College. He is on the steering group for Capsule.

He has been involved in blogging and social media since 2000. Prior to this he was heavily involved in the DIY publishing scene.

In 2006 he nurtured the Birmingham Flickr Community with monthly meetups and photowalks. In 2007 he started Created in Birmingham with Stef Lewandowski which joint-won the Guardian Media Award for Independent Blog in 2008.

Pete is active in the Birmingham social media community and brings this shared knowledge and experience to his work.

Pete’s personal blogging occurs at peteashton.com from where you can find links to his other online presences.