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Supermondays data visualisation evening – May 28th

May 8, 2012

Introduction Taken shelter from the ‘data explosion’? Looking for the patterns which become information and better decision-making? Join us at Supermondays on Monday May 28th and hear from a varied line-up about data visualisation – how software tools can help us seeing further, and differently. Context Inspired by Jer Thorp’s talks at Thinking Digital and [...]

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Global Service Jam 2012: Newcastle {part 2}

March 23, 2012

Intro Second post, containing multimedia to give you a sense of the Newcastle part of the Global Service Jam event. Photos Friday Saturday Sunday Justin getting a signal Our output Sid’s day – script to go with video I’ve dug out this document, to give you an idea of how we thought our persona, ‘Sid’ [...]

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Global Service Jam 2012: Newcastle {part 1}

March 22, 2012

Intro A couple of posts describing what I was up to (with a whole load of others), on the weekend of the 24-26th February. This post gives background, the second one gives a flavour of what we got up to – in the form of photos, videos, and sound. Background I recently attended a Service [...]

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Podcasting discoveries

September 9, 2011

Introduction For those of you dedicated followers of this blog, you might recall my post Podcasts = genius. Over the summer I’ve been fine-tuning my podcast listening, and wanted to share what I’ve found. I’m come to think that that podcasts are a significant and pretty vibrant source of knowledge, insight and news. The best [...]

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Podcasts = genius

November 12, 2010

Intro I’ve recently installed this Car CD/MP3 Radio with Bluetooth from Aldi (along with having the winter tyres put back on). It’s got a USB port, and I’ve enlisted the NorthernNet memory stick to play (mainly) business podcasts in the car. It’s a work of genius! Journeys into Tyneside take around 40 minutes, and there’s [...]

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Discover what I read / have read

August 6, 2010

Intro Reading helps me keep up with the latest developments, learn about best practice, and stimulate new thinking. I’ve found myself recommending books to folk I meet, usually via an e-mail. To try and short-circuit this somewhat clunky approach (and make a trickle-feed of associate wonga), I’ve created this Amazon Associates store. If imitation is [...]

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I’m presenting at Nicola Cook’s “Business Building Bootcamp”

July 8, 2010

Introduction You may be aware that Nicola and I form a tremendous double-act, and deliver social media strategy workshops. Nicola has asked me to present to her upcoming business building bootcamp (more details below). Draft title is “Learning how to integrate Digital & Social Media into your lead generation strategy”. Flyer information “Do you need [...]

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Preso: The importance of cloud computing and related market opportunity

July 5, 2010

Introduction Last week I attended an internal workshop with Onyx Group, to help them discuss the next steps for their cloud offering. My slot was wedged between a fascinating talk about online backup from Alexander and Saaher from Securstore, and Steve Caughey of Arjuna Technologies Ltd (fyi this useful video re Arjuna’s Agility product). My [...]

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Presentation from Cloudcamp Gateshead with slides & video of my talk

June 2, 2010

Introduction A post covering my recent attendance at CloudCamp Gateshead on May 5, 2010. The organiser, Ross Cooney, asked me to give an introduction to Cloud Computing, and was kind enough to edit the footage taken by Northern Net. As of the time of writing this post (2nd June 2010), the slides have had 8847 [...]

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Meet my mentees – Asad and Emilie

May 19, 2010

Introduction I’ve been doing some informal mentoring with a couple of students at Newcastle University, so here’s a bit more information about them. The post is in the form of bullet points, as I’m rather rushed at the mo’. Asad Imam Asad is originally from India – more in fo about him on his LinkedIn [...]

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