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.

Tithing, doing stuff for free and crowdsourcing an ethical policy

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by in Blog, 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 [...]