Category Archives: Case Studies

Your Freedom

Posted on July 1, 2010

Much buzz today about the government’s Your Freedom website which has been taken offline due to high demand. On the one hand it’s nice to see some web-based consultation happening. On the other hand how they’re doing it is a … Continue reading →

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Plumbers are on Twitter, sort of.

Posted on December 22, 2009

Earlier in the year there was much talk in Birmingham about getting people outside of the usual suspects to use social media tools, the poster child being Twitter, mainly prompted by Dave Harte, then of Digital Birmingham, who was tasked … Continue reading →

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Puppies and the gatekeepers of misery

Posted on November 25, 2009

Show number 233 of This American Life has an interesting segment about Dan FitzSimmonds who tries to set up his own cable network. (You can listen to it from the site – it starts 7 minutes in and lasts for … Continue reading →

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Comments are not just for comments

Posted on October 16, 2009

Thinking the comments section of your website is just for comments about your website content is like thinking your corridors are just for getting from one room to another. They’re also spaces for ad-hoc coversations. When the Warwick Arts Centre … Continue reading →

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Sharing the booty

Posted on September 24, 2009

The discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo Saxon gold has understandably gotten a lot of coverage today with the news outlets doing a pretty good job (from my positional as a layman) of explaining the significance and importance of … Continue reading →

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