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Pete and Katharine’s Wedding

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Last weekend Emily and I were multi-tasking at her sister’s wedding. Emily was wedding photographer, bridesmaid and looking after Imogen, and I was assisting and being dad too.
The results are really great and Emily has just put all the images on a DVD slideshow to send to the happy couple for them to choose their [...]

May 8, 2008 ♦ 2 Comments

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We Won a Webby Award!

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Well what d’you know? The First Light Movies website that we built at 3form has only gone and won a Webby Award!
A great big thank you to everyone who worked on the project!
So I’ll be jetting out to New York for Internet Week in June to pick up one of these spirally babies:

And in a [...]

May 6, 2008 ♦ 8 Comments

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Connect or Protect? How can we open up our ideas and keep them safe at the same time?

Video, creative commons, entrepreneurship, ideas, ip, non-disclosure agreements, startup

In this episode:

My new company is registered!
Creative Commons non-disclosure agreements?
Protecting the idea in early start-up mode
Connecting with people around you is important to influence your early ideas on your project

April 23, 2008 ♦ 5 Comments

Common Purpose - The Entrepreneur’s Game

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Yesterday I was playing a ‘dragon in the den’ at a Common Purpose event as part of their Navigator Programme on leadership development.
The format wasn’t too far removed from the BBC ‘Dragon’s Den’ pitch-to-the-investors model, but with a few differences.
Also on the panel with me (all men - which I pointed out) were:

Damien Glover, Relationship [...]

April 23, 2008 ♦ 3 Comments

Let’s take the ideas in the Big City Plan and run with them

Big City Plan, Birmingham, Video, birminghamuk, ideas, serendipity, upyerbrum

In the first of my video blog posts I was pretty amazed by one of the comments in particular that came back and it looks like we’ve spawned a project if I can find some people to collaborate with to make it happen (open invite).
So how about we apply some of that ‘Local Ideas Bank’ [...]

April 21, 2008 ♦ 2 Comments

What is accelerated serendipity for?

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What is accelerated serendipity for? from aeioux on Vimeo.
In an attempt to break some of the backblog and to get me publishing more regularly, how about video for the format, and to start with how do you think we can make serendipity have real outcomes rather than just ‘nice ideas’ being generated?

April 19, 2008 ♦ 8 Comments

WordcampUK comes to Birmingham

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(Image with thanks from Antoine Mallet for the freeware map image)
Great news for Birmingham’s ever-growing blogging and social media scene!
Fans of the Wordpress blogging platform have been springing up left right and centre of late, and the icing on the cake is that a first-of-its-kind-in-the-UK event is now being planned for this summer to connect [...]

April 18, 2008 ♦ 4 Comments

10 things to ask yourself about your new web site home page layout

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I’ve just been chatting to a friend of mine, Chris Garrett, about a new home page layout for his new venture - a video production company operating in the UK with international clients, using social media tools and platforms to good effect.
He asked me my opinion on what he’d put together, and I came up [...]

April 15, 2008 ♦ 3 Comments

Snowladen Branches

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I’ve been getting slow on processing my images - getting them off the camera and onto the internet. To be honest I’ve even started to question why I care if other people see my photos!
Anyway - here’s a nice image from the sudden snow we had over the weekend.

April 10, 2008 ♦ 2 Comments

A Webby Triple - One Nomination and Two Honorees

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The announcement of this year’s tranch of Webby winners is getting ever closer, and this year I’m feeling pretty great about having a triple decker trifle of awards cake.
First Light Movies is in the final five Nominations for the Student Film category

This means it’s also in the running for the People’s Choice Award and if [...]

April 8, 2008 ♦ 4 Comments

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  • Anthony Herron: Great pic Stef
  • emily: Thanks for assisting! What a team ;-)
  • stef: Thanks everyone! And to celebrate I had a bit of a spruce up around here…
  • Nick Booth: triple woo….
  • Nick Booth: Andre - it allows more open and honest conversations to happen so that people can learn faster, grow...

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Hi, I'm Stef Lewandowski. This is my personal blog about creativity and ideas.