About

I am a
Social Media innovator & implementer, photojournalist, bon viveur, stunt double, geek, Manchester City fan, husband and all round good guy. (I’m not sure on the ordering of those labels. I may possibly need to work on that a little.)

About Me
I have been publishing on the internet since 1996 and I specialise in dealing with difficult on-line communities opposing views and moderation. My work is showing people how to use the internet to help them get a voice on-line, whether this be for simply connecting with family & friends, building a community, dealing with an issue that affects them or helping them to engage with democracy. Democracy is the single most important thing in this country and the second most important thing is to engage with your MP & councillors or if you are one of the latter, your constituents.

I am one of the founders of Pits n Pots, the nationally acclaimed local political & news website, I am the chairman of Potteries Media Community Interest Company, which is the organisation behind the soon to launch 6 Towns Radio, a community radio station which will focus on Stoke-on-Trent and the ongoing regeneration. I also help organise the Stoke-on-Trent Social Media Surgeries, which happen around the city on a semi regular basis.

This is
where I live on-line. I write stuff on here from time to time, things that interest me or annoy me and things that I think may interest or annoy you. Some of it will be work related and some of it won’t. Regardless of the subject everything on here is my personal opinion. Twitter is the best place to follow what I am doing at any given moment, or FourSquare or Gowalla, by signing up to this concept and having this type of unhealthy interest in my life should be more worrying for you than it is for me.

For hire?
Social Media
I work at Talk About Local, if you want to hire me to do social media stuff, this should be your first point of call to see if what you want fits in with what we do. If what you want doesn’t fit in with what we do there, then feel free to contact me to discuss, I won’t do anything that compromises or conflicts with Talk About Local but I’m more than happy to point you in the right direction as long as what you are asking doesn’t conflict with my personal beliefs & morals.

Photography
If you want to hire me to do photography then for now use the contact form on this site. I am just finishing off my photographic site and will update this as soon as it is done.