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This is the work blog of Pete Ashton in his capacity as an online communications consultant, though it's often about more than that. If it's to do with people talking online and it interests me it'll be covered here.

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So what do I do now?

Since I announced before Xmas I was jacking in the whole social media schtick and becoming an artist there’s been a bit of confusion as to what I do these days under the ASH-10 banner. Which is perfectly understandable.
After a fairly quiet January, spent mostly taking photos and figuring out ways to display and [...]

Money where my mouth is

For the last few years I’ve been telling artists they should start blogs to help them promote their work and connect with the customers and peers. It’s easy and, with certain caveats, it works, I would say. Look at this example or this example. Hell, look at me – I’m standing here getting paid to [...]

Death to Social Media

It’s been about 18 months since the term “Social Media” first nudged its way into being the answer to the question “what is it that I do?” It’s always been a marriage of convenience rather than one born of true love – I needed a label, something broader than “blogger” (I’ve always maintained that the [...]

The Arts Council West Midlands DCD fund – some notes

Today I had a meeting with Anna Douglas and Steve Manthorp at the Arts Council’s Birmingham offices to discussed the Digital Content Development (DCD) fund. This was announced in December 2008 and since then I’ve been increasingly asked by arts organisations for advice on formulating their applications. Since this has become a significant part of [...]

Back at work

Nice holiday, thanks for asking. Snapshots are here. But now it’s back to work. Not, hopefully, like this. (Contains rude words – best not watched in sensitive workplaces.)

Video comes via the mighty D’log.
Update
Another take on the Social Media Guru video: Enough With The Social Media Guru Attacks:
The truth is that every social media [...]