A couple of weeks ago I went along to Local Gov Camp in Birmingham. As ever there are, unfortunately, some people who can’t get to these events but who still want to take part, so most of the Social Media savvy people at the event do what they can to Tweet Twitpic and AudioBoo the [...]
….. What would @JackBauer do? You hear the word Twitterthon and you almost want Noel Edmonds, Dave Lee (Hairy Cornflake) Travis et-al to come bounding out in Christmas jumpers, with comedy mobile phones for 24 hours of furious tweeting induced RSI. But alas no, today it is @tamesidecouncil who are tweeting about the calls they [...]
I’m just back from speaking at the Polis Journalism Conference in London yesterday. I sat on a panel talking about DIY Media Democracy, which is one of the areas I specialise in and I strongly believe that more people need to engage with the democratic processes at a local level. While we were sitting in LSE [...]
Tomorrow morning, at some ungodly hour I’m heading down to London School of Economics & Political Science for the POLIS Journalism Conference 11. The overview of the days panels & discussions taken from the POLIS website is As well as WikiLeaks and the Middle East Uprisings, we shall be looking at issues closer to home: are [...]
A week on Monday (16 May) sees the return of the Social Media Surgeries in North Staffordshire. We have decided to team up with Jamie from Stone & Phil from Stafford and run a combined SMS every month in either Stoke-on-Trent, Stone or Stafford. This new plan will allow us to cover more ground and [...]
Take a village in rural Lancaster, a village that happens to have a 30mbps symmetrical broadband connection, a village cricket match & throw in the micro blogging, social networking site (or whatever the media call it this week) Twitter and you get #Twicket. The idea was simple, get a group of people together to show [...]