I’m buzzing. I’ve been buzzing for 9 days now. Why am I buzzing? I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here! is on. I’ve been running this type of online engagement event for 8 years now. You’d have thought I’d be used to it by now, but almost everytime the Read more
Today we are excited to announce the winners of the Healthcare Engagement Strategy Awards 2010. “Parature is extremely excited to announce this Parature for Facebook application,” stated Parature CEO, Tim Davenport. “Today I am very excited to announce yet another step along our data portability journey.” Don’t get me wrong. Read more
Update: Dr Goldacre has taken exception to this interpretation of his remarks in the I, Science interview. We would like to make absolutely clear that Dr Goldacre does not advocate the sacking of all science writers. However, I genuinely did read his remarks to mean that he believed we should Read more
Several years ago I spoke at a conference where Stephen Coleman gave the keynote speech. My presentation (on I'm a Councillor) included what I thought was a very graceful compliment to his paper A Tale of Two Houses, on Big Brother and politics. Unfortunately Professor Coleman felt somebody else's session Read more
There was quite a gathering of new media luminaries in London in early March. Joe Rospars, Mike Slaby, Sam Graham-Felsen, Jared Cohen, Scott Heiferman from Meet-up, & Ramya Raghaven from YouTube amongst many others. The Alliance of Youth Movements had invited them to talk about how young people are and can Read more
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
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
I was putting my feet up the week before Christmas. We’d had a hard, but good year in 2009. 2010 was going to be a tough start so having a couple of days off before the festivities seemed like a good idea. There wasn’t going to be much free time Read more
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