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Session One: (Present at the Creation) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel Paul Miller, School of Everything Harry Drnec, former CEO, Red Bull UK Dr James TerKeurst, The Institute of Digital Innovation Mike Southon, The Financial Times Live blog Session One: (Present at the Creation) Technorati Tags: north east england,gateshead,education,ideas,thinking digital,media,innovation

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Social Media at CONNECT North East

May 11, 2009

This post sets out the work I have been doing with CONNECT North East which, in its own words, is: ”the newest branch of the highly successful CONNECT network, which brokers introductions between young technology companies and investors. CONNECT North East’s role is to strengthen the links between the region’s young technology businesses and [...]

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Transatlantic Troubleshooting: Getting into Europe’s New Media Market

March 14, 2009

Live blogging session, flying the flag for the Brits (any other European peeps on the panel?) PRESENTERS Mike Butcher – TechCrunch Mike Teasdale – Chinwag/Harvest Digital Stewart Townsend – Sun Microsystems Aleks Krotoski – Chinwag/UKTI Nigel Eccles – Hubdub.com DESCRIPTION The European market with over 500 million citizens is an enormous single market, with the [...]

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SXSW preparations

March 8, 2009

A post reflecting pretty much what it says in the title - I’m trying to get my ducks in a row for SXSWi. Key things have been: Deciding what to pack Getting the logistics sorted Working out what I’ll be doing when I get there Doing my best to fit in with Digital Mission Sorting [...]

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Bigging up the Thinking Digital (#TDC) conference

January 27, 2009

I’ve been asked to act as an Ambassador for the 2009 Thinking Digital conference. What this means is that I get a Press Pass for helping promote Thinking Digital. I also intend to use Social Media as an experiment to cover my feedback, probably through CoveritLive via my blog, and Twitter etc.. “What is Thinking [...]

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Embedding video on this blog – experiment

December 8, 2008

Morning all! Rather than ask everyone what they think the best video site is, I thought I’d have a play myself. :-) I took the clip below with my Blackberry a couple of weeks back – just over 60 seconds of rough footage. The test has a number of different aspects: Will the sites accept [...]

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Miss Geeky at DigitalCity

November 5, 2008

Quick write-up of a star performance by Melinda Seckington at last night’s First Wednesday event, run by DigitalCity (part of Teesside Uni’s Institute of Digital Innovation). Melinda runs her own website, Miss Geeky, and has used many social media tools to help her form a new set of friends – having moved to London from [...]

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Thought Experiment: Tuttle for the North East

October 24, 2008

Hello folks If you’re a Social Media type, then you may have heard of Tuttle. Otherwise, check this out. So, my contention is that the North East of England could do with a focus for Social Media wannabes (and Pros, of course). The idea would be to extend the Tuttle coverage up to the North [...]

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