July 9, 2009
In case you don’t know what I do for a living I’m a kind of champion for use of digital stuff by businesses in Birmingham. And the easiest, no-cost, digital stuff to get your head round is Social Media. I’m always hunting down examples. I love the fact that Herefordshire-based Wiggly Wigglers have blogged, podcasted [...]
March 31, 2009
There was an interesting clash of events today. Over at the Orange Studio was the Screen West Midlands/Creative Republic Crunch Time Event. Screen WM’s Sarah Arnesen has a useful report on it – sounds very positive and it certainly had an good choice of keynote in James Medway (update: Ruth Ward has put up the [...]
March 25, 2009
Just thought I’d get this down as it’s an issue raised in the meeting I’m sitting in as I type this now: “Are the city’s creative industries too far on the other side of the social media curve that they’ve forgotten how to engage with everybody else?” The meeting is generally made up of representatives [...]
February 5, 2009
I did a presentation at one of Aston Science Park’s ‘Seminars for Success’ this week – I don’t do many 7.30am starts so that’s almost worth a post in itself. All I want to do here is say thanks to those that sent me positive feedback afterwards and a general hello to some new followers [...]
December 15, 2008
I’ll avoid cross-posting in future but my first posting at the Digital Birmingham blog is about a useful example of how social media can be used by small businesses: I’m always looking for examples of how social media can support small businesses. I’ve raised the question before using the local builder as an example. Why [...]
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 [...]