Charles Frith (one of my fave twitter buddies btw) writes about two types of people Cold War survivors who see the world as black and white, good and evil and behave guardedly online with spy-like pseudonyms and ‘Post-Coldies” who are more comfortable with a zillion shades of grey and who let it all hang out….
Lloyd’s of London – someone pointed out to me the interestingness of someone with my name thinking about opening a coffee shop in this town. (groan) What it’s not – Some folk have zoomed in on co-working, shared workspaces for freelancers, hotdesking etc. Others have latched onto the club angle. Neither are wholly what I’m…
I just want first to distinguish this from the events that Chris has facilitated through Social Media Club. I am involved with Social Media Club in London, and what I’m talking about might well be a place to host Social Media Club (or even Social Media Cafés!) and I love both concepts – but neither…
Mike Butcher put a note out this week (after, as he said, Helen Keegan told him to stop talking about it, and just do something) inviting folk to Brunch Bites (yet another extension of the Xbites brand) at the Breakfast Club Soho and about 10 of us turned up. It was another pleasant way of…
I made a set of pictures I took at the second Hallam Foe screening. Observations: 1. Looking at Jamie & Sophia in these pictures really shows you how much they were acting their socks off. Just at a physical level, for example, in the film, it is quite clear that she’s an older woman, but…
I’ve so many posts that haven’t even made draft yet, just bubbling away in my head. Maybe listing them here will halp. At least it’s got me away from Pinkerton my Facebook pet Greybit. He’s less than an hour old, but at level 6 and loves fighting level 7 spiders and mantises and stuff. Anyway,…
I enjoyed helping out again at VNU’s second Blogs & Social Media Forum on Tuesday. I decided to twitter rather than live-blog here today. You’ll find the first one here in my twitter archive and it goes through to here 48 tweets later I ran a (rather frenetic and noisy) speed networking session so everyone…
At the end of the Skill Share last week, I asked three participants to reflect on what they’d got out of the day. Here’s the video: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=dPVbqFfA7ok] I shot lots more footage in the sessions – that’s still coming through the sausage machine 🙂
David Dixon is founder of The Phone Room, a call and contact centre specialising in telephone fundraising for not-for-profits and ticketing for arts organisations. I’ve been talking to David for a while about blogging and social media in this context and he invited me along to help record a “Skill Share” day last week where…
Do you know any PR people who know that social media is important and want to get up to speed, but don’t quite know where to start? I went to the last Chinwag Live called PR Unspun (podcast here) and could see an opportunity for talking in more detail to PR folk about how to…