Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

The next Brrism event looks interesting – a range of conversations from politics, time management and community.

Go direct to the Brrism site for more information and booking, meanwhile, here’s the blurb:

It’s a brand new year, a brand new decade and Brrism has a brand new format. Every Brrism meeting now consists of three topics and an icebreaker. For the first meeting of 2010 (which takes place on Wednesday 20th at the Pervasive Media Studio) the line up is as follows:

• The Digital Economy Bill with Paul Smith (twitter, blog). Paul is a PPC which I normally take to mean “Pay per Click” but Paul assures me that it means “Prospective Parliamentary Candidate” which gives him an added incentive to be interested in the Digital Economy Bill which is currently making its way through the House of Lords before progressing to the House of Commons and being made law. This is your chance to find out about the bill, discuss it with fellow Brrismers and decide what action to take (e.g. change ISP, write to your MP, etc etc). Pre-meeting discussion can take place here (registration required).
• Social Media versus Time Management with Lee Cottier (twitter). The first of January is the day that we traditionally make our New Year’s resolutions with the second of January being the day that we traditionally forget them. Lee will be telling us how we can rethink our habits around social media such we can work more effectively and not get sucked into the Twitter/Facebook/etc time-waste. Pre-meeting discussion can take place here (registration required).
• Social media tools for the Brrism Community with Colin Rainsforth (twitter, website). Brrism’s “pattern of use” so far has been a great deal of activity in the week of the meeting followed by 3 weeks of inactivity. It would be great if we could generate conversations that would transcend the meetings and allow us to act as an integrated community throughout the month. Colin has much experience with social media tools as well as being involved with online communities before the likes of Ecademy and Facebook made the term popular. Pre-meeting discussion can take place here (registration required).

Icebreaker: The 2009 Memory Game. 2009 was chock full of interesting news stories concerning social media and this game refreshes your memory, gets you talking to other people at the meeting and allows you to have a lot of fun.