Information as art? It can’t get more beautiful than this
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter, cool
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend Pilot Theatre’s Shift Happens conference in York which I also covered for the excellent CultureVulture blog. Now, I’m a pretty jaded conference goer and nowadays I like to think I’ve seen it all before. By the end of the conference’s second day I was [...]
Bradford’s first Social Media Surgery
Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter, cool
Next week sees Bradford become the latest town in the UK hold a Social Media Surgery. The informal gathering of people interested in either teaching or learning how to use the web will be held at The Gumption Centre on July 20th.pecifically aimed at community or voluntary groups, Social Media Surgeries provide free advice to organisations or people on how to set up their own websites, blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages or podcasts. As well as anything else digital that they may be interested in investigating.
Facebook: Snow White or Big Bad Wolf?
Posted on 16. Jun, 2010 by benmckenna in Advertising, All Posts, Technology
Facebook continues to be big news – and let’s face it, when is it not nowadays? – but the world’s biggest social network seems to be attracting more and more press of the wrong type in recent times.
Since last year’s change to the privacy terms and conditions, a move which in itself attracted enough [...]
The Semantic Web, beautifully explained
Posted on 14. May, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Film, Technology, cool
Long time no blog. Sorry about that but I’m sure you’ll manage. I’ve recently been doing a hell of a lot of production stuff for clients which has taken up a gigantic amount of time, on top of that I’ve been doing some very exciting work around education. More on those soon. Much, much more [...]
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day Four
Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology
Totaal’s rattle through the realms of visual information continues apace with this, the last post in the Infographics Week series. We’ve returned to script somewhat with Social Media one again the main focus, like it or lump it Social Media is a great focus for the infographicists of the world so hopefully after yesterday’s diversion [...]
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day Three
Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology
So the infographics train keeps a-rolling on, thanks to all the people who’ve given lovely feedback so far. Thanks especially to Ben and Tim who pointed me in the direction of Information is Beautiful which is a thing of beauty in itself. It has kind of messed with the order of play a bit but [...]
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day Two
Posted on 07. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology
The infographics mania continues with some more lovely information and design based goodness for you all again today. If there is a theme here it’s probably about interaction. Mostly it’s just infographics that I have found that I have liked or I thought brought something new to the party.
The Social Media Effect
A nice lo-fi graphic [...]
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day One
Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology
I love information and I also love design, when design meets information then it’s bound to be fun right? Exactly, that part of the VEN diagram has to be a fertile furrow to plough and I’ve developed a bit of a childish love for the infographic over the last few years. Also, it’s Easter Week [...]
Social Media Training, some reflections
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, PR, Policy, Technology, Twitter, cool
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering Totaal’s first large-scale Social Media Training session at Immage Studios in North East Lincolnshire. I have done many a one-on-one and small group session before but this one was a very different animal indeed.
All in all there were twelve different attendees and representatives from two different companies, [...]
Tithing, doing stuff for free and crowdsourcing an ethical policy
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Policy
I’ve been tossing a few ideas around in my head for a while, I started the business a few months ago and I’ve been very, very happy with how it’s been going. We’ve won a couple of great clients pretty quickly and all of the business plan projections, the ones which were drawn up on [...]