October 30, 2008
(pic Dr Craig) This is part crowdsourcing, part just setting my stall out. One of the aspects of my new job that I’m wrestling with is the notion that no matter what kind of business you are you need to have an online presence. In Digital Birmingham we have a target for increasing the amount of businesses [...]
October 27, 2008
Some links for you: Who Needs The Sea? – Powered by 4iP and Supported by Screen West Midlands – And this is it isn’t it? The social network for West Midlands’ Digital media folks. Built using Ning by C4 themselves. Hello Digital Festival – Birmingham Mail – Digital Family – The ‘Digital Family’ go to [...]
One of the things to emerge from last Friday’s launch of 4IP here in the West Midlands is that Channel 4 & Screen West Midlands intend to launch a social media network for those interested in applying to the fund. During the announcement of this I put out a tweet asking why we needed one imposed; [...]
October 26, 2008
So that was the first ever Birmingham Half Marathon. All told it was pretty good. Here’s a brief report on the day: It was of course a horrible night weather-wise (not as bad as up in the Lake District of course but thank goodness all the runners there are safe). By the time a group [...]
October 25, 2008
Just to remind you that it’s a big running weekend in Birmingham. Tomorrow of course is the inaugural Birmingham Half Marathon. 9000 runners taking in Perry Barr, Newtown, City Centre, Edgbaston, Bearwood (presumably right up to the Sandwell border) and then back to Centenary Square. Given it’s a ‘Race Against Climate Change’ there could have [...]
October 23, 2008
This is in direct response to a couple of blog posts (Bounder & star-one) about today’s launch of b-scape by the Digital Birmingham partnership, for which I now work. In fact, as from next week I’m tasked with taking forward the stuff we’ve done on Second Life to the next stage so I’m just [...]
October 22, 2008
Some links for you: What's the nuts and bolts of 4iP? – 38minutes – This is where the real chat about 4ip is happening, not on the 'official' 4ip site but on a social networking site for Northern Irish and Scottish creatives. Comments on this particular post from top C4 people. Where's the West Midlands [...]
October 20, 2008
Some links for you: Uncertainty over the future of regional cultural research « Observations – Culture West Midlands is on the way out in case you didn't realise and it looks like there's nothing in place that would give us the kind of rich regional research in Culture that we've had up til now. Office [...]