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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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Movember: please help raise money to combat men’s cancers

November 4, 2011

Intro [this is crossed-posted from my personal blog] Pretty much a ‘Ronseal‘ post – does what it says in the title! This post gives you some of the background to Movember, explains how things work (and my twist on the theme), and then encourages you to donate your hard-earned cash to a very worthy cause. [...]

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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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Introducing Pinevio

May 19, 2011

Introduction This post is about a new internet start-up business, and my role in coaching and mentoring the team since July 2010. Originally called themselves TerraPi, the three original entrepreneurs have been joined by a fourth. This is their story. [cue drum roll and dramatic title sequence…!] Background Daumantas, Justinas, & Mindaugas are three Lithuanian [...]

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Quick write up of ‘Data Reveals Stories’

June 17, 2010

Introduction Yesterday I attended ‘Data Reveals Stories’: Hoult Session # 2 with mySociety – with the blurb describing it as: Northern Film & Media host mySociety for our second Hoult Session: a one-day seminar in Newcastle on June 16 about how Britain’s new wealth of open data can be harnessed to reveal hidden stories, tell [...]

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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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SCL’s new branding

April 1, 2010

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Re-boot

Introduction As I mentioned in my opening post of this series, Gino at Fat Frog has done a great job with the new look for Souter Consulting. Process It’s been an interactive exercise, and I believe we’ve both enjoyed the experience, and I feel it’s delivered the goods Gino has a passion for typefaces – [...]

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Testimonials

February 17, 2010

Intro A post about recent work that Souter Consulting carried out on behalf of two North East England customers: Digital Transport event at Newcastle University CONNECT North East Please read on for more details. Digital Transport Souter Consulting Limited was approached by Hannah Bryan, at the time working as part of the Newcastle University School [...]

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Byte Night 09 – the sleepover @ The BALTIC

October 6, 2009

A write-up of the combined exploits of Byte Night 09 North East. At last it has arrived! I have to admit to being a bit apprehensive before the event. I had done some prep – as documented here and here. But I was a bit in the dark about what was happen, so really wanted [...]

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