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 [...]

The web in 2010, an edited highlights package

Posted on 30. Dec, 2010 by in Advertising, Apps, Blog, News, Technology, Twitter

The past year has been a bit of a strange one in the tech world. In many ways this should have been the year that web technology “broke”, this was true in more than one sense with Facebook becoming the subject of a Hollywood blockbuster and Apple – generally thought of as invincibly slick – [...]

These views are my own

Posted on 26. Aug, 2010 by in Blog, Policy, Technology, Twitter

The title to this blog appears, in one way or another, in the bio section of an alarming amount of profiles across the social web. You may have hardly noticed it or possibly just taken it for granted but it’s very illustrative of the current state of play in the relationship between society, work and [...]

Information as art? It can't get more beautiful than this

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Technology, Twitter

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 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.

Facebook: Snow White or Big Bad Wolf?

Posted on 16. Jun, 2010 by in Advertising, Blog, 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 [...]

Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day Four

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

Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day One

Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by in Blog, 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 [...]

Totaal's Infographics Week: Day One

Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by in Blog, 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 [...]