I’ve missed the last few Birmingham Social Media Cafes. This has been a mix of oversleeping (once) and being slightly put off by being cornered by estate agents wanting advice on using Twitter at past meetups.
This week, however, I decided to go along, get stuck in and learn the art of polite mingling!
It was a [...]
As a fan of the TV show I jumped at the chance to have a sneak preview around a new CSI Experience exhibition at Bullring Birmingham.
It’s taken over the old space left vacant by the departure of Borders Books, so there is certainly a lot of space!
To be honest, I was expecting a museum [...]
As part of the MA Online Journalism at Birmingham City University, we visited the BBC User Generated Content Hub.
They gather, process and distribute images video and audio sent into them from the general public.
Matthew Eltringham heads up the department.
Link to Breaking Waves: Birmingham Snow Wave
Breaking Waves A Google Waves Experiment
BACKGROUND OF GOOGLE WAVE
Google Wave was previewed to Google employees on May 27th 2009. Described as a “personal communication and collaboration tool” it was gradually rolled out from September 2009 via invitation. A combination of instant messenger and email, users could send messages to [...]
Well I’ve been busy all morning setting up various links and accounts for Birmingham Promoters, my MA Online Journalism Production project.
I am working as a consultant for the company, developing their blog and online content.
To Do List:
Set up RSS feed to Facebook
Set up Flickr account (need new Yahoo account to do this) and pass on [...]
Well, I’ve now started my second semester studying an MA Online Journalism. Part of this is a Production Lab module, which sees us venture into the workplace to work as a consultant to an external organization.
My interest is in music journalism, and whether it can be useful in promoting live music. I have already explored [...]
Bloggers are often considering to be inferior to “proper journalists”. Whether the argument is about training, or responsibility, impartiality or audience, they are often treated as second class citizens.
In reality, some hyperlocal sites are making excellent headway into their local council press offices, for example, to forge those links and get access to council meetings, [...]
Yes fitting in so damn well with my new discovery of all things rockabilly/psychobilly and general punk n roll goodness, here landed the Smoking Hearts … with free Mp3 of George Street Wrestling attached
So here it is – download, share, spread the love and enjoy
GET IT HERE
You want more? Ok .. here’s some nuggets of [...]
(live blog of event here)
Last night saw the first in a series of pre-Election Question Time specials, hosted by Total Politics magazine, and City Inn hotels, first in Birmingham then onto Manchester, Leeds and London for the next three consecutive Thursdays.
Chaired by Conservative activist and blogger, and founder of Total Politics magazine, Iain Dale (@iaindale) [...]
As part of a series of pre-election session around the UK, Birmingham will tonight host a Question Time special at the City Inn.
On the panel:
Andrew Mitchell – Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
Jacqui Smith – MP for Redditch and former Home Secretary
John Hemming – MP for Birmingham Yardley
Mark Reeves – Former Editor of the [...]