Author: Matt Jukes

  • Death to Death by Powerpoint

    Introduction to Innovative Presentation Styles The second part of my presentation around events 2.0 was about Innovative Presentation Styles – its pretty thin and could do with being revisited in the future but was essentially filler on this occasion between the unconference stuff I wanted to talk about and the backchannel/amplified conference stuff thats close…

  • Introduction to user generated events

    I’m giving a presentation at work this week about the events 2.0 stuff I have written about on this blog in the past.  For the most part its a pretty high level introduction and doesn’t really go into much detail (its only a 10 minute slot) but I thought I would reproduce it here.  The…

  • Fall of a HERO

    So it seems as if hero.ac.uk – a website that was once a shining beacon of higher education collaboration, and one that still generates enviable traffic and Google rankings – is being allowed to quietly wither and die.  As far as I know there has been no announcement but a quick look at the staff…

  • A summer of conferences..

    Looks like conference season is fast approaching for me so I thought I would just quickly run through three events I’m very much looking forward to.  Yep I’m aware that a normal person would be looking forward to music festivals or a decent vacation in the summer not geeky conferences! The Social Technology Summit in…

  • Big Brizzle Barcamp?

    We love a festival in Bristol – whether its a Festival of Ideas, a Harbour Festival, a Film festival, Music festival…heck we even have an Interesting Games festival and on one of my looooooong bus rides home from work recently I wondered what what a mix that love of festivals and a barcamp might look…