Yesterday I gave a talk at Birmingham City University’s Business School on the induction day for a new course - the MSc in Business Creation and Development. It was a really inspiring couple of hours and I got some good feedback, so I thought I’d just blog about the process I go through on putting [...]
Tonight was the unofficial preview night for particularly keen people to see what’s been going on at the new soon-to-be-opened Redpoint Climbing Centre in Birmingham’s Gun Quarter (that’s North East, near the Children’s Hospital).
As with any creative work deadlines can sometimes slip, so rather than it being the ‘grand opening night’ that was in my [...]
What a nice way to start the week - Created in Birmingham has picked up some national interest and gone and hit the big-time with a big ‘ol compliment from the Guardian in the shape of a MEGA award nomination for Best Independent Blog.
Although if you read Pete’s post about it it’s a ‘you’ve kinda [...]
Finding out where web traffic in a city is, which are the important sites, which ones have loads of users, which ones have none is a difficult task for anyone who’s interested. Sites tend to keep their visitor numbers to themselves unless they’re seeking advertising.
So six months ago I did a post where I examined [...]
Today is the launch of The Big Picture.
It’s a project aimed at making the biggest photot ‘album’ the West Midlands has ever seen, and if that brings together over 100,000 images then they will be made into a World Record-breaking photo montage.
It’s an Arts Council project being run by Audiences Central, with some big support [...]
