Category Archives: blogging

WordcampUK comes to Birmingham

18th
Apr. × ’08
By stef

(Image with thanks from Antoine Mallet for the freeware map image)
Great news for Birmingham’s ever-growing blogging and social media scene!
Fans of the Wordpress blogging platform have been springing up left right and centre of late, and the icing on the cake is that a first-of-its-kind-in-the-UK event is now being planned for this summer to connect [...]

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Birmingham Bloggers Meetup 3 - Coworking and a Social Media Cafe

1st
Apr. × ’08
By stef

Last night was the third of the Birmingham Bloggers Meetups, and it was an even bigger affair than the last two probably put together.

April 1st comes early - “Nick Booth Gets Rickrolled”

About thirty of us turned up which made for a lovely crowd of people at Rooty’s in the Custard Factory. I was really pleased [...]

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SXSWi 2008 First Impressions

9th
Mar. × ’08
By stef

I’ve spent a lot of my time recording my conversations with people at SXSWi and I’ll be posting a few of them here (I can’t find anywhere that’s more appropriate - Viddler for audio anyone?)
To kick off, here are some first impressions from some of the other SXSWM types.

 
icon for podpress  Dom Murphy's First Impressions: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Pete Ashton's First Impressions: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Joanna Geary's First Impressions: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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The Art of Influence for the Arts Council

8th
Mar. × ’08
By stef

Pete and I presented at our first ‘double act’ speaking event today. We were invited down by Sarah Gee from Indigo to talk about blogging and how it can be used as a tool/platform/method for arts organisations to ‘reach new audiences and internal communication’.
Sarah neatly compacted our quite rambling response to the brief into a [...]

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