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thinking digital

Raising your Whuffie

June 12, 2009

This post looks at the importance of Social Capital online. For those of you who attended Thinking Digital recently, we were treated to Tara Hunt tour-de-force which, unfortunately, was too quick & snappy for me to live blog :-(. I’m therefore embedding the presentation so you can see for yourself. :-) Happiness as Your Business [...]

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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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Thinking Digital feedback #tdc

May 28, 2009

A quick post re my thoughts about Thinking Digital. I’ve just filled out the feedback survey, and that is probably the better way to feed back… Overall, I thought Herb & the Team did an amazing job. I met loads of great people and learned some fascinating new things. I loved the mixture of sessions, [...]

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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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Thinking Digital live blogs posts #tdc

May 19, 2009

Hello! Thanks for stopping by and thanks to Herb for the shout and link to my live-blogs of Thinking Digital. :-D For your convenience, this is the list of posts which have embedded Cover it Live sessions: Social Media Masterclass hosted by Stowe Boyd #TDC Session One: (Present at the Creation) #TDC Session Two: (Disturbing [...]

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Session Six: (Content and it’s Discontents) #TDC

May 15, 2009

Panel Oonagh Cassidy, singer Erik Huggers, BBC Matt Mason, author of The Pirates Dilemma Russell Davies & Ben Terrett UPDATE: it was actually Kerstin Mogull who delivered the BBC slot. Live blog Session Six: (Content and it’s Discontents)

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Session Five: (Unconventional Wisdom) #TDC

May 15, 2009

Panel Rob Colling Matt Ridley, author of Genome Bob Baskin, Spotlight Analysis Hans Rosling via videolink from Stockholm Tom Scott, York University Live blog Session Five: (Unconventional Wisdom)

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Session Four: (Stop Making Sense) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel Michael Shermer, Scientific American Chandler Burr, The New York Times Caleb Chung, Toymaker & Creator of the Furby & Pleo Live blog Session Four: (Stop Making Sense)

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