Haven’t really got my head on straight since #ukgc13 on Saturday, so many lovely people, so much happened, moved forward, settled into a comfortable space. So here’s my list of blurbages: 0. I miss posterous because it really made it easy to getting people blogging after an event – the follow-up posts have been fewer…
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been at #commscamp13 and #ukgc13 – at each there where plenty of people at the event and away from it who were tweeting using the hashtags – this sort of backchannel has become an important part of the event experience since the early days when people started appearing…
The only people who can possibly not have seen or heard about Amanda Palmer‘s TED Talk from last week yet are those who resist words of wisdom on principle, or perhaps those poor bastards who restrict their internet time to “serious stuff”. If you’re in one of those categories and you read this blog, a)…
Andy Mabbett pointed this out this morning. My resemblance to the late Roger Delgado seems to get creepier as I get older. I’d love to go to this but it’s up in Birmingham and I’m in London. Does anybody have a lloyd-shaped hole in what they’re doing around the weekend of 30th that would…
Sitting in groups of traditional marketers or comms people I often groan. The most likely trigger is hearing words like: “Social media is just another channel” Yes, you can see social media as a channel, but if you treat it like the other “channels” that you’ve had in the past (TV, radio, press) you’re missing…
I’m going to ask you to contribute to a crowdfunding campaign, but this time it’s not one of mine. Having spent some time at a couple of unconferences this week, both of which focused in on the experiences of professionals working in public service (Commscamp for Communications folk, LibCampLdn for library peeps) and preparing (mentally)…
This has been annoying me for a little while, but just below the level of making me do something about it. Sometime in 2010 I subscribed to e-mail notifications from the Transmedia Artists Guild blog – it looked interesting, it probably helped me to hook up with Transmedia-interested people at SXSWi 2011 while I was…
On emerging from our meditation this morning… She: “I think you should come with me to yoga now” I: “For the sake of the group’s serenity, I don’t think I should attend until I am able to bend more than 30 degrees at the waist without shrieking “I’m going to die! I’m going to die”…
One of Harrison Owen’s principles for Open Space (on which most unconferences are based) is “Whoever comes is the right people”. It’s there to remind us that we don’t need the boss or experts to have a useful conversation, we just need people who care enough to show up. I’ve found that one of my…
I’m grateful to have been asked to facilitate CommsCamp13 which was organised by @annkempster @danslee and @darrencaveney in Birmingham the other day. These are some the things that are rolling round in my head as a result. Not all of them come directly from experiences at CommsCamp13, they may be things I’ve wanted to rant…