Forget Glastonbury, come to Geeknbury!
Rachel Clarke introduced me to Christian Payne who had the idea of hosting the first Geek festival. I have been running the Vann Summer Fest in a field behind my mum's house for the past 7 years with Grant Craies, William Heath, Ruth Kennedy, Al Kennedy and Aliya Saleem. We have agreed to bolt Geeknbury [...]
By rebecca Monday June 30, 2008
When language fails you
Everyone’s heard of Management Consultant Bingo – but since it’s Friday, have some fun and make up new corporate-talk phrases yourself with the “Web Economy Bullshit Generator “. just type in some phrase from your latest strategy review document like ‘extend scalable supply-chains’ and hit the Make Bullshit button! again and again…it keeps finding new [...]
By rebecca Friday June 27, 2008
Enterprise 2.0 for agencies
I received a quesiton from a Business development Director of a well-known identity and branding agency who works with social enterprise and government organisations. We don’t use outside consultants, but the ‘Enterprise 2.0’ is an area of interest. Most agencies seem to be setting up blogs as a way of presenting the agency culture and [...]
By rebecca Thursday June 26, 2008
Videos from event, “Should Brands be Broadcasters?”
Many thanks to Mireira Fontbernat from Qik who has uploaded video of the three speakers this morning (and a little bit of me doing introductions). Bloggers reactions: FreshNetworks' Helen Trim Charlie Robertson of Red Spider Quentin Boyes of Honeycomb Software Sadly the one of Andrew Howells of Zype didn't come out…. darn phone reception. Bookmark [...]
By rebecca Wednesday June 18, 2008