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Opera

I’m currently taking part in Birmingham Opera’s production of Othello as part of the volunteer singing chorus and offered them an hour or so of my time to run through some things they could do with their Internet presence. So I was rather surprised to see my name appear twice in the program – once [...]

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 [...]

Social Media Surgery at Hello Digital

Yesterday was Hello Digital, Birmingham’s digital event run by the city council and various related bodies. The emphasis was on how local businesses could benefit from adopting digital tools and approaches and part of this was a social media surgery sponsored by Business Link and delivered by Nick Booth at Podnosh. Nick’s been doing social [...]

Sharing the booty

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 the find. But I just discovered something interesting from a social media perspective – their [...]

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 [...]