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…
We’re hiring. We’re getting busier. With I’m a Scientist now rolling out to up to 500 schools this year we need to take on some help. We’re looking for an Admin Assistant (although you’ll get to choose a much funkier job title if you like – I’m a Defender of Read more…
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…
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…
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…