Monthly Archives: February 2008

Creative Republic Launch Party and Charter

(Photos by me and Isabel - thanks!)
Last night was the launch of Creative Republic and was a great evening. Well done to everyone who helped make it happen, and congratulations again to Pete on Created in Birmingham’s first birthday.It was nice to meet some new people, chat to those I already knew and make ‘real [...]

By stef | Posted February 22, 2008 in Birmingham, Blog, Events, birminghamuk, creative, creativerepublic, cultural, leadership, party | Comments (11)

Top 10 Usability Mistakes for Blogs - How Does Yours Rate?

The prolific usability guru Jacob Nielsen has a handy post called “Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes” and last night I thought I’d scope them out and see if I needed to make any changes to this site (thanks Joanna).
The summary is bang on: “Blogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability [...]

By stef | Posted February 21, 2008 in Blog, birminghamuk, upyerbrum, usability | Comments (6)

Birmingham Bloggers Meetup 2

The Birmingham Bloggers Meetup events look set for great things. Last night was really good fun spent chatting to likeminded blogging types about all manner of exciting ideas. And for once I totally failed to get any photos because I was just too busy chatting.
What a lovely evening!
Thanks again to Nick Booth for organising it [...]

By stef | Posted February 19, 2008 in birminghamuk, hellobirmingham, upyerbrum | Comments (2)

Hello new blogger!

Congratulations on starting a blog - nice to have you with us!
Just audio:

 
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Just an image:

(Voices: Pete Ashton, Jon Bounds, Julia Gilbert, Nick Booth (I think) and me - Stef Lewandowski. Who am I missing?)
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By stef | Posted February 19, 2008 in Birmingham, Blog, birminghamuk, hellonewblogger, podcast, upyerbrum | Comments (4)

A mixed bag week

I’m off to the Birmingham Bloggers Meetup, and aside from having ongoing internal discussions about whether there is any ‘possession’ implied between the words ‘bloggers’ and ‘meetup’ the last few days have been a mixed bag and I wanted to put something online about what I’ve been up to before I get all hyped up [...]

By stef | Posted February 18, 2008 in birminghamuk | Comments (1)