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Blogging for Artists, a talk

September 10th, 2009 | One comment

Blogging for Artists on Vimeo.
I’m frequently asked to give talks to artists and creative practitioners about how they might use blogging and related social media tools to promote their work but until now I’d never recorded myself doing one. On Wednesday I did one for Shropshire Council’s Arts Network and popped the Flip video camera [...]

Category: ASH-10, Speaking |

Coworking and Internet Culture

July 5th, 2009 | Comments are closed

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 [...]

Category: Explanations, Speaking, Theorising | Tags: , |

Moseley Barcamp this Sunday

June 25th, 2009 | Comments are closed

Moseley Barcamp or MozCamp is this Sunday, the third such event from the WXWM stable. I’m going to be talking at this one. Looking at the schedule I guess I’ll be on around 4-4.30 ish so if you’re not going and for some reason want to catch me live then tune into the stream about [...]

Category: Events, Speaking | Tags: , , , |

Post Digital

May 12th, 2009 | Comments are closed

Things are still pretty busy at ASH-10 Towers and I’ve been saying no to a lot of stuff lately, which is a nice position to be in but does mean I’m not saying yes to the interesting things. One thing that slipped through the net is Toby Barnes’ Post Digital event which he’s holding to [...]

Category: Appearances, Events, Speaking | Tags: |

Topics for Public Speaking

December 21st, 2008 | 2 comments

The other day I was thinking I’d like to do more public speaking next year, and then I read Chris Brogan’s How to start speaking at events which pushed me into thinking I’m going to do more public speaking next year. I’ve done a fair bit in 2008 but it’s mainly been variations on a [...]

Category: Speaking |