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Make it easy for them

I’m in the process of developing my website so people can buy stuff from it. I’m using a combination of a blog platform (Wordpress) and PayPal.
Just now I went to another website running on Wordpress with the intention of buying four items from it. The seller had given each item a Buy Now button [...]

Plumbers are on Twitter, sort of.

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 with getting more businesses to use digital stuff to do their business better. The example [...]

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 [...]

Twitter at Supersonic – Final Report

When I outlined my plans for “doing Twitter” at the Supersonic Festival I obviously didn’t know exactly how it would pan out. Here’s how it panned out.
Preparation
First the practical stuff. With about 36 hours to prepare and zero budget a DIY approach was needed. I had available to me a 9 year old G4 [...]

Coworking and Internet Culture

At Moseley Barcamp last week I did a short talk about the Coworking movement, specifically looking at how it differs from similar notions of collective activity by being informed my Internet culture. My aim was to take a snapshot of a larger thing I’ve been thinking about – how the supercharged networked nature of online [...]