Bradford Social Media Surgery Needs Your Help

Posted on 15. Jul, 2011 by in Blog, Community, Policy, Technology

Recently a group of interested parties met up in a Bier Café in Bradford to discuss how we re-boot the Bradford Social Media Surgery. Yes, there were some cold beverages taken but the main topic of discussion of how we make the BDSMS more relevant and tailored to the people of the district. The concept of [...]

Tithing, an update and some perspectives on ‘doing good stuff’

Posted on 30. Sep, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Technology

Back in March I wrote a short blog post about the direction I was looking to take Totaal in as a company. In it I spoke about crowd-sourcing an ethical policy and the concept I called “tithing” where I give 10% of my time, roughly equating to half a day a week, to doing things [...]

Bradford’s first Social Media Surgery

Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Technology, Twitter

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.

The Semantic Web, beautifully explained

Posted on 14. May, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Film, Technology

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 Two

Posted on 07. Apr, 2010 by in Blog, 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 [...]

Social Media Training, some reflections

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Policy, PR, Technology, Twitter

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 [...]