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The Big Debate – Creative Workers Unite and Take Over

November 2, 2009

Here’s my post in relation to The Big Debate event in Birmingham (2nd Nov). I was supposed to write this over on the Birmingham Post blog but I didn’t get round to starting it until the weekend before and then I discovered I lost the log-in to the Post’s blog. Ah well, here goes anyway: [...]

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Making my job more difficult

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 [...]

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Birmingham Post column – sporting data

July 8, 2009

Sometimes the column I write for the Birmingham Post materialises online – other times it doesn’t. When it doesn’t (not sure why it doesn’t) I’ll reproduce here (although newspaper columns are such a different tone to posts on blogs). This one was a version of the presentation I gave at wxwm2 the other week: Running [...]

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West Midlands Media Top 100

November 7, 2008

This was going to be quietly shuffled off to my delicious links but I thought it worth a few extra words. The North West has a Top 100 people in the Media in the North West list. It comes out of a site that was new to me called How-do (sub-headed: News, opinion and resources [...]

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Social Media’s hidden legacy

June 9, 2008

This is a cross-post from my blog at the Birmingham Post Two things trouble me about social media. The first is that everyone I read or connect to via Twitter or Facebook or whatever, seems to be having a much more exciting life than me. It’s a world of gallery openings, launches, great nights out [...]

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