AYM Biog

My attempt to post a Biog for AYM got lost in the ether. Here’s what should be in the Biog for me, Shane McCracken.  Professional:  At Gallomanor we’ve been working for over 8 years getting thousands of young people and their democratic representatives talking through online events such as I’m Read more…

Preview of what’s coming

It's busy.  Very, very busy at the moment. We're in the finishing straight for the phase I redevelopment of the I'm a Scientist website. You can see how it looks at www.imascientist.org.uk.  There are still some rough edges but I hope you'll be blown away by what the team have Read more…

work@gallomanor – thank you

We've had over 70 applications for the Office Admin job we advertised. Sophia spoke to about potential candidates over this week and we've now shortlisted 5 candidates who we are interviewing on Monday.  The smart ones will be subscribed to this blog and will read this post. That means they'll Read more…

LocalGovCamp London

Thursday February 25th 2010 in London. Themes will be relevant to anyone working with local government in the social media/digital engagement space. We are aiming to create spaces for discussion and engagement, the sharing of experiences and creation of new ideas. Conversations are encouraged. We will have lots of parallel Read more…

Stop blogging

At least let’s stop using the word blog. I was in Diss, Norfolk last night as part of our www.norfolkhomepage.org.uk project.  We had invited various community organisations to the library to learn about how they could get involved in the project.  Primarily we showed people like Trevor that he could Read more…

PAF – Initial Postcomm response

A month ago I wrote to Ken Clarke and John Thurso asking them to add their support to Tom Watson's correspondence with the Royal Mail over the Postcode Address File and providing access at a reasonable cost.  Ken Clarke passed me on to Jonathan Djanogly, Shadow Spokesperson on the Post Read more…

My Mum is cool!

I’ve got an incredibly annoying friend called Geoff. If I am chatting to a new acqaintance at a party, he’ll come up behind me and say, “Soph’s Mum is the Sheriff of Nottingham, you know. If you’re not careful she’ll set her henchmen on you”. He, inexplicably, thinks this is Read more…