Common Purpose - The Entrepreneur’s Game

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 [...]

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

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’ [...]

WordcampUK comes to Birmingham

(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 [...]

A Webby Triple - One Nomination and Two Honorees

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 [...]

Birmingham Bloggers Meetup 3 - Coworking and a Social Media Cafe

Last night was the third of the Birmingham Bloggers Meetups, and it was an even bigger affair than the last two probably put together.

April 1st comes early - “Nick Booth Gets Rickrolled”

About thirty of us turned up which made for a lovely crowd of people at Rooty’s in the Custard Factory. I was really pleased [...]