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Pervasive Media Studio open on Fridays

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Good news; the iShed team are opening the Pervasive Media Studio up on Fridays to anyone who wants to come and work there. It's a great place to work and there are lots of good people to boot. I'll be there. Here's the blurb: Open Studio Fridays iShed have recently taken over the ...

Interesting games lab

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Simon and the iglab collective in Bristol are running another night of games, gaming, game theory and other stuff like that down at the Pervasive Media lab on Tuesday 11 March. Anyone can come and all are welcome. : This time it's personal... thats not just hyperbole this month iglab has ...

KnowledgeBoard book three: call for chapters

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The Unbla team are getting another free Knowledge Management book off the ground in partnership with KnowledgeBoard, scene of many happy memories for me. Good for them. Good quality and free case studies are the source of much enlightenment if you ask me, and I'm a contributor and big fan ...

Small organisations big internet

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

I work at The Hub in Bristol. It's a community kind of place, and we regularly have 'hub lunches' where we gather round and share experiences about things we do. In one of my over-enthusiastic moods I offered to hold a hub lunch about some stuff I do, and here ...

Good work: Andy and Simon

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

A double thumbs-up to fellow Open Innovation-ers, Andy Parkhouse and Simon Berry for continuing to do good stuff for the employees and volunteers: Well done to Andy Parkhouse, boss at hyper creative local digital agency Team Rubber for starting a pledgebank pledge to create a new bank holiday: 'Bristol day'. Double ...

Game design Skillswap: video available

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Tomas' excellent Skillswap job on Game design is now available on video thanks to Oliver and the Watershed servers. Skillswap on game design: video I recommend you watch it. It was fascinating, and his passing comment about participation metrics for youtube and flickr got me all over excited and have kicked off ...

Rapid prototyping skillswap video online

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Thanks again to Ben and Andy from Delib for sharing their rapid prototyping thought and action (Bristol Skillswap in May). Video now online: For Real Player For others incl. Quicktime Good work all. Keep the spirit alive. Game design video incoming. Thanks due to Oliver for doing that video thing he does so well, ...

OK, I’ll give it a go: that public private balance

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

I've been bashing out my virtual thoughts and emotions elsewhere because, usually, I end up in a state somewhere, late at night, with the world's 'experiences' on my shoulders, and someone, somewhere takes offence at the thoughtlessness (read: unprofessionalism) of my words, and the permanence of their appearance on 't'internet'. Now ...

Good luck to the Innovation Exchangers

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Having been shortlisted for interview at The Cabinet Office next week, Simon, David, Ben and others are preparing by holding an open meeting of all collaborators at Warwick Business School today. This is likely to be the first time many of those people have met, and I am sorry not to ...

Rapid prototyping with Plone: Delib’s Skillswap report

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Andy and Ben from Team Rubber did a grand job of breaking down some barriers in our heads at last week's Skillswap; not only did they do a 'from the floor' live prototyping session with Plone (we co-designed a sheep farmers' community, us west country lot, honestly), but we got ...