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Barcamp North East 2 feedback #bcne2

June 5, 2009

This post is about my experience at the Barcamp held immediately after Thinking Digital, at the Centurion Bar in central Newcastle upon Tyne. I didn’t know what to expect from the day, but I thought it would be interesting to go along and test-drive the whole experience. I had a nebulous idea that Barcamps were [...]

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Manifesto: UK Public Sector data should be set free

May 27, 2009

[UPDATE Jan 2010: Check out ‘Public Launch’ a post about the launch of data.gov.uk. Data sets & mashups ahoy – w00t!] This post is a synthesis of various ideas which have come together now that Data.gov is live. In turn, I would like to see data held by UK Public Sector organisations be freed up [...]

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My views & feedback on SXSW

April 14, 2009

This post sets out my observations of the South by South West (SXSW) interactive festival (http://sxsw.com/interactive), in March 2009. I attended as Ambassador to Thinking Digital (http://thinkingdigital.co.uk/). Reflections Overall, it was a fantastic experience, not overwhelming I don’t tend to overdo things, so didn’t "burn the candle at both ends" too much! I found it [...]

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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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SCL: Ready for business!

January 26, 2009

If you’re thinking of getting in contact with SCL, I thought it would be helpful to set out where Souter Consulting Limited has got to: SCL formally established on 16th December 2008 Public liability & personal insurance now in place Bank account etc. now set up and running Marketing Obviously, this website and the blog [...]

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SCL Business Plan progress

January 15, 2009

Photo credit to Raymond Yee Quick post regarding the business plan for Souter Consulting Limited: I put together a document with my thoughts about how to proceed, immediately on leaving Fujitsu Services Was advised to get in touch with Business Link by Matthew Rippon To get assistance with business start up To get funding for [...]

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Twitter & Social Media security issues

January 12, 2009

You may have seen the recent furore over Twyply, which seems to have turned out to be a simple way to harvest the Twitter usernames and passwords of the Great and the Good [sic]. The same Great and the Good then had to change their passwords, as this fly-by-night application was then sold on to [...]

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Please help me choose a business bank

December 8, 2008

Photo credit to Colin Brown I attended a rather good course on Friday, run by FinanceTree and called Managing Money – which was mainly about cashflow management. A chap from RBS / NatWest give the class an idea of how Banks view this area, and their attitude towards business banking right now. I need to [...]

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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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Tuttle North East – volunteers please

October 27, 2008

Right folks, I’ve done the ‘easy’ part – i.e. set up some supporting tools: http://tuttlenortheast.wordpress.com/ with theme to chime with the original Tuttle Club branding http://friendfeed.com/rooms/tuttle-north-east perhaps a useful place for discussion? I’ve set it up to import the Tuttle Club feed, and also the Tuttle North East one. Now I’m looking to draw together [...]

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