October 26, 2010
I thought it worth putting up the few slides I created for the session I was part of at the recent Hello Business event. The discussion involved myself, Steve Harding from Birmingham City University (chairing), entrepreneur Michel Mol from Amsterdam and Jane Holmes from Advantage West Midlands (she does the inward investment stuff) I’m not [...]
October 21, 2010
During the summer the Business Cluster Opportunity Group that represents the Digital Media industry in the West Midlands asked me to produce a kind of positioning paper whilst the discussions were ongoing about the formation of Local Economic Partnerships (LEP). The group was formed in 2003 so the paper is kind of saying: ‘don’t dump [...]
October 15, 2010
Some links for you: My paper to ECREA conference – further reading – theplan – Noted, useful list of Social Media or related academic papers National Police Web Managers Group: Communication Teams and the Public – "Having taken part in a session entitled 'Press Office vs Bloggers' at the recent #HyperWM event at Walsall College, [...]
October 9, 2010
Some links for you: The iterative development of 4ip | Screen WM – A look back on 4iP by Screen West Midlands as it gets subsumed into C4's general online commissioning structures. A Postmortem Look at Citywide WiFi by Eric Fraser – Why city wi-fi failed. Interesting glimpse also into how US telecommunications law helped [...]
October 1, 2010
Some links for you: Creating a cost benefit equation for social media – Kathryn Ashcroft – Paper written by marketeer/PhD student on the back of the event we held at Birmingham City University in July 2010 (tho paper say July 2009) Data mash-ups and the future of mapping – JISC (PDF) – "Data mash-ups in [...]