#EdTwestival: bringing it all together.
Yesterday was Twestival, in cities across the globe. I've written about my involvement in Edinburgh's Twestival before, so a quick follow up post is in order.First up, here's the event's site: http://edinburgh.twestival.com/The big numbers: over 3...
PhD proposal: Christmas 2010 edition.
I've deliberately held back from posting my full PhD proposal on the site, despite my open ethos. I've a variety of reasons for doing so, but at the same time I wanted to have a way of archiving it online: available if I want it. So, a private pos...
Open innovation.
Inspace, housed within the University of Edinburgh, has hosted a number of events that I've enjoyed over the past year ??? from mushroom-inspired improvised music to film screenings. On Wednesday 23 February I attended an 'openness' discussion: open...
#tramwaysummit_01
Tuesday morning: with barely minutes to go, as I sped through the central belt to Glasgow, my Twitter feed told me my meeting had been upgraded to a summit! This was fantastic news ??? really set the tone for a productive catch up with some other ev...
The Event Expo: Glasgow, 9 February 2011
The 'Event Expo' was a one day conference at The Garage in Glasgow: by event management students, for event management students. (Yes, it was in a night club. Got a problem with that?) Plenty of variety on the bill and an impressive line up of spe...
Late February round up of quick links, software and half-formed responses.
The limited nature of my engagement with Delicious is based on the idea that if I particularly like a website or want to keep a record of someone's blog post I'll note it on my own blog and add a little comment to remind myself what was so great a...
Travelogue 16: 'away and home 21.02.03'
I remember writing this post as it gook about two weeks to compile and twenty minutes to type up: a compilation of some standout memories from a year in Australia. I returned to the UK with little focus on what was to come next, although it didn't...
Current projects: Twestival and Breda.
I'm involved in two very interesting projects at the moment and this post is to introduce them both and record where we're up to just now with them.___First up is Edinburgh Twestival 2011. Every year cities around the world put together an event f...
The Guardian Hacks SXSW
via guardian.co.uk The Guardian has the best conference-festival-hack-day-event, it's due this time next week. The conference-festival is South by South West, the hack-day is a way to bring people together to make stuff for following SXSW, and the...
Blank canvas: crowdsourcing as curation. (Help needed.)
I want help decorating my flat: the dining/spare room has big empty walls that need filling and I'm looking for suggestions from the web. What do you recommend?This is the next step in transforming what was my tenants' room for my first couple of ...