Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

Bristol’s local community festival (Ashton Court Festival) has a racey history from its pure free festival origins to today’s contextually pragmatic negotiations with the bank manager, council, police, etc. etc. etc. Hundreds of local bands get to play in front a big audience who pay a relatively small entrance fee (£8 – £10), and the [...]

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I’m doing a workshop with The Improvement and Development Agency soon about the gritty details of making stuff happen in communities (including some of the things I tried which didn’t make anything happen). I’m a firm believer in admitting and learning from mistakes, or ‘Knowledge Crisis Management’ as my friend Mark coined last night, because [...]

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Dan Dixon, senior lecturer at UWE and mastermind of the forthcoming ‘Web Design’ undergraduate course, is the next presenter for Bristol’s Skillswap. Here is what he had to say about it: Satre said, “Hell is other sites.” Or at least he would have if he worked in the web now. Find out where Information Architecture [...]

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Joe Leech’s skillswap about usability was a great success. He is a very personable presenter, had some great stories, and we laughed while we learned (a good combination). Well done Joe! His presentation and further links Video of the gig (thanks again to Oliver and the Watershed server)

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We have now got most of the Skillswap videos sorted and streaming from the Watershed’s servers. These include: Microformats Basic book-keeping Conversational interfaces Css workflows Copyright Basic networking Plone skinning Good work all! Thanks at large to Oliver Humpage for getting on top of it all, and The Watershed and its servers for hosting it. [...]

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Back at the desk after a wonderful holiday – daffodils blooming in the garden, Magnolia blossom down the street – it looks like winter is over. Hurray! In my absence, there has been some great conversation in the Gurteen Knowledge group, and our Skillswap usability session booked out so quickly that we have moved it [...]

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I might be thinking of you all, but I won’t be answering any emails. Have a good three weeks.

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Peter Anthony (member of the Gurteen google group and IT director for Richemont) wrote a review of the social tools debate at the knowledge cafe recently: On the whole, the majority agreed that the spread of Web 2.0 tools inside the organization was inevitable. It was only a matter of time. What was less clear [...]

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Joe Leech is going to give us the ‘howto’ of usability on March 29th. He promises it won’t be all about web standards, nor long videos of hapless punters in usability studios trying to work photocopiers with iPhones, in fact, it’s all getting rather groovy these days. Joe is going to talk about: “…things learnt [...]

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Here is what we will be discussing at the knowledge cafe on Wednesday 21 February after the first day of the Unicom conference: “Social Tools and Web 2.0 are a lot of hype and will have little impact within organizations”. Ooh ha. Interesting topic – and we get a debate as well as the ‘cafe’ [...]

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