I had a wonderful time at #brumsanta this evening. It was very simple idea: a Christmas get-together with some people from Birmingham who are on Twitter, with a (somewhat) secret Santa element to it – but the twist being that the maximum spend on gifts was £0. About 35 people came along – lots of [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Christmas, Hare and Hounds, Twitter
Some friends in New Zealand are involved in a massive 700-strong Twitter secret Santa. I think it’s a great idea, and thought it was the kind of thing the people I know from around here might be interested in doing. Reluctant as I am to organise anything (and as much as I should not ever [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Christmas, Hare and Hounds, Santa, Twitter
Photo by estoril This started out as a discussion on Twitter, but it got a bit out of hand and I had lots of questions thrown my way as a result, so I thought I’d capture and clarify it all in a quick blog post. I kicked it all off by saying this: And then [...]
Categories: Technology
I’ve been having conversations over the past 24 hours about the ‘value’ of social media. The social transparency and personal profile that this kind of medium affords is one of those things that crops up from time to time in articles such as this one in Techcrunch and this one in Music Think Tank – [...]
Categories: culture,Family,Music,Technology
Photo by DoktorSpinn I saw an article being linked to from Twitter this morning. It was entitled 10 Reasons PR Should Embrace Twitter. I thought I should go check it out, partly because I regularly guest lecture about the internet on a PR module at Birmingham City University, and partly because I had a feeling [...]
Categories: Business,culture,Technology
Photo by Kristina B This week (give or take a day or two) marks both my 8-year blogging anniversary (8th April, 2002) and my 3-year Twitter anniversary (31st March, 2007) . That all seems like quite a long time. And in that time, I’ve changed the ways in which I do all this stuff quite [...]
Categories: culture,Technology
There are people I know who would be horrified at this ratio I don’t know if you use Twitter, but it’s really quite remarkably useful. More so back when it did the updates to your mobile phone, before they stopped all that here in the UK – but even so, still a really cool bit [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Hamburg, Internet, Seminar, Shambala, Social media, Twitter
