event

Entries Tagged as 'event'

NEF’s bigger picture event: little write up

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Events

The New Economics Foundation held a ‘Bigger Picture‘ Festival on Saturday 24th October. It was a good gig. Just like salesmen who like being sold to, as an event designer, I love going to a good gig.
The range of workshops, debates, discussions, talks was excellent; it was solid with attendees full of interesting ideas in [...]

Knowledge Cafe Report: Reslience

September 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation

This is a brief report on our Bristol Knowledge Cafe on ‘Reslience’, kindly introduced by Phillipa Bayley, keenly discussed by about 30 of us, space kindly lent by the ever effervescent Pervasive Media Studio.
Ciaran, Tim, Michael and Philippa kindly wrote up some of their reflections which I include along with my own.
Phillipa gave an excellent [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Resilience: dealing with an uncertain future

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the uber-resilient Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday September 17th, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt as usual.
Our introductory speaker is Philipa Bayley, acting head of the Centre for Public Engagement, Bristol University (and full on neuro-science doctor geek [...]

Running local Transition events: some suggestions and questions

July 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation

We’re getting our local Transition initiative, Transition Montpelier, off the ground (have a look at the Transition Towns website or Rob Hopkins blog for an idea about the movement).
We have had two open meetings to date, several small projects under our belts, a range of new ideas and related groups emerging; it’s all good. We [...]

BBC Learning Unplugged: event report

July 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Technology

This is a report on the BBC Learning Unplugged event in Bristol, 26 June 2009.
James Richards (BBC Learning Development) and Myles Runham (BBC Learning) co-hosted the event with Clare Reddington (Ished); I designed and facilitated it with help from Jack Martin Leith. There were approximately 65 attendees, made up of 15 BBC folk and 50 [...]

Transition Montpelier presence at Bristol Art Fringe

April 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Events, Facilitation

Transition Montpelier is a new-ish Transition initiative in my neighbourhood. I am involved and excited.
These things are challenging to get off the ground, but Dan Weisselberg and the other early members are putting a lot of effort and inspiration into it, having already organised a neighbourhood clean up (particularly fine thank you poster), found some [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: The purpose and limits of KM

April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the ever-purposeful Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday June 11th, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt.
Local wise guy, innovation catalyst, and font of much knowledge Chris Dean has kindly agreed to share his thoughts on ‘The Purpose and limits [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe Bristol: Generosity: 4 February

January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Events

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the ever-generous Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Wednesday 4th February, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt.
Steve Bridger, local k-cafe member and ‘Chief Generosity Officer’ (with almost 20 years of work within and consulting to the charity sector) will be [...]

The Five Golden Rules for multi-platform development

December 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Facilitation

On Monday 15/12 we had the ideas lab launch event for Media Sandbox 2009. I designed and facilitated the event partnered with Victoria Tillotson of iShed overseen by Clare Reddington of iShed.
It was fun. We worked hard and focused and produced some interesting stuff. David Wilcox did some fantastic social reporting, the attendees captured their [...]

Wanted: real questions for digital communications innovation lab

November 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Technology

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? [...]

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation.