The link between connectivity of various sorts and social change is something that’s almost bound to interest me, given that I’ve spent over a decade of my life thinking about how the internet changes the way we communicate…
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Hacks/Hackers London: it's only going to get harder to get a ticket - and that's just how it should be
I’m not sure I’d have believed you if you’d told me five years ago that Hacks/Hackers London would become so popular that people are screaming and complaining at the organisers because they can’t get tickets…
Event organisers hijack attendees Twitter accounts
Mashable reports on a complete abuse of New York Comic Con attendees’ Twitter accounts: Fans, celebrities and press attending New York Comic Con on Thursday sent out laudatory tweets expressing excitement to be at the annual convention — or at least…
Three ways to improve your live-tweeting from events
In a few weeks, I’ll be up in front of a variety of journalism students, teaching them about live-tweeting events. Despite what some people have taken from my post on Social Media Week London, I think good event live-tweeting…
Event coverage on Flipboard
This is a neat idea: There’s a lot happening at Disrupt SF. So much so that it cannot be consumed on just one site. Produced daily at 6:00pm PDT (right after the last panel of the day) a…
Cool Content Coming Soon... to Cornwall
Cool Content Coming Soon, the rather splendid content-centric event I liveblogged last year, is coming back (soon), and this time to this part of the world: Yes, Cornwall. In fact, it’ll be at the Eden Project on March 22nd,…
What could be more Brighton than TEDx and cupcakes?
Friday, as anyone who follows me on Twitter will be aware, was TEDxBrighton. It’s my second TEDx event (the first was TEDxTuttle a few years back), and the only one I’ve been involved in organising – although just as…
Where Content Strategy and Brighton meet...
So, content strategy is the new hotness. Lots of people who were once web editors or content managers or even, heavens forbid, journalists, are now describing themselves as “content strategists”. But there’s a world of difference between just being…