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Website Makeover with Talk About Local

At the Talk About Local Unconference earlier in the month there was a competition to win a “website makeover” which I was asked to hep out on as part of my work with Talk About Local, a 4ip-funded project to encourage and support hyperlocal blogging across the UK.
The makeover took place today and the [...]

Shift Time in Shrewsbury

In July Shift Time, a festival of ideas, is happening in Shrewsbury. It last for a week (3rd – 12th) and sees a host of things happening based around Charles Darwin’s bicentenial. The big event is Theo Jansen who will be building a new Stranbeest in the town. You might remember Jansen from his TED [...]

Obama’s People

About four weeks ago Rhonda WIlson from Rhubarb Rhurbarb, a photography agency based in Birmingham, asked me if I’d come over for a chat. She had a new project on the go and thought I might be interested in getting involved. It turned out to be Obama’s People, a series of 53 portraits of Barack [...]

Social Media Strategy course for Arts Organisations

This spring and summer I’m co-running a course for arts organisations in the West Midlands where they’ll devise and develop a bespoke social media strategy. The course is being run with Helga Henry from Fierce under their Metapod banner with support from Arts Council England. Fierce have a track record for delivering arts development courses [...]