Digital by Default

Category: events

  • Drumbeat 2011 – Media, Freedom and the Web

    Alongside landing my job with the MRC probably my best experience last year (at least relevant to this blog) was my involvement as a blogger and conference attendee at the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona. I met a whole heap of interesting people and had a great time exploring Barcelona for the first time as…

  • #quangocamp – a govcamp for the rest of us?

    So despite my promise to myself not to get involved in any more events at least during the first half of 2011 I was struck by an idea while attending #ukgc11. Well to be honest it was the bubbling up of an old idea and an evolution of something I’ve spoken to a few people…

  • Thoughts on #ukgc11

    Yesterday I finally attended my first UKGovCamp. I’ve intended to attend all the previous incarnations of this event but each time things came up that forced me to give up my tickets. Though at the first event my drunken adventures on a stag-do in Poland did feature quite heavily on the Twitter backchannel due to…

  • Eventstreams Evolution

    Confession time – I have been useless recently regarding Eventstreams (Es). The latter months of 2010 ended up being dominated by the change of jobs, my work for Drumbeat and then the stress-fest that was Be Bettr. This meant I had very little head space left for anything else – even something as deserving and…

  • Bye to #bebettr

    After several months of mild stress, occasional panic and large doses of doubt #bebettr is now done and dusted. So how did it go? Well all in all I think it was a (qualified) success. On the down side I think the format was wrong – it needed to be more collaborative and less traditional…