We had a great knowledge cafe last Thursday about storytelling. The magnificent personal impact coach and storyteller Tim Sheppard gave us a swift yet thorough overview, starting and finishing with a powerful tale about ‘Truth’ and ‘Story’ with plenty to think about in between. Storytelling and narrative analysis bounced ...

Do you or your organization have a question about how to use digital communication technologies that you would like a room full of experts to workshop for free? Are there people you feel you could engage with in new ways with these new technologies? A campaign you want to support? A service you wish to provide? [...]

Attached is the final report about the facilitation work done with iShed for the Media Sandbox 2008 development scheme. It covers all of our strategic planning, the tools we used, activities we pursued (and chose not to pursue), the lessons we learnt and the metrics we measured by. And there are some handy diagrams. Download the full [...]

This is a brief report about 4talent’s inspiration session about online communities held in Birmingham, 26/10/08. I gave a short presentation alongside Emma Monks (Sulake), Ally Branley (Channel 4) and Heather Champ (flickr). It was a great pleasure to meet them and see their presentations which were all very interesting indeed - there are ...

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the multi-disciplinary Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday 17 November, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt. Tim Sheppard, local storytelling group member, will be introducing the subject before we get down to the serious k-cafe business as usual. If you ...

This is a write up of a presentation I gave about networking at The Knowledge and Innovation Network’s gathering in March 2008. I am suddenly inspired to write this up after enjoying Ron Donaldson’s excellent ecological explanation of web2 and Dominic Campbell’s admirable work for Barnet Council at Unicom’s social tools ...

This is a brief personal reflection on igfest, the three day games festival which took place in Central Bristol from 19th to 21st September. I was a voluntary member on the organising team, mentored some of the games, ran a game on the day, and generally helped out. I was immediately drawn to igfest as it [...]

This is a little post about the good stuff you find on your own street, and the possibilities of bottom-up organisation in the wild. How many times have you said or heard ‘I don’t know my neighbours’, and felt that it just isn’t right? We organised a street party on Sunday 14th September. I highly recommend giving [...]

About 20 of us met up in the Pervasive Media Studio on the 11th September to discuss ‘Engagement’. Jack Martin Leith gave a highly thought provoking 15 minute presentation on the subject covering a range of angles as broad as the history of PR to inter-personal relationships, and how ‘Engagement’ covers so many ...

This sign is on the street down the road from where I live. It was put there by the amazingly admirable People’s Republic of Stoke’s Croft‘. The street is called Stoke’s Croft and is in the middle of a tug of war between a range of ‘redevelopment’ forces - council, property developers, bottom up community folk, ...