Digital by Default

Category: events

  • Book for Be Bettr

    So slightly earlier than I planned I have opened up Be Bettr for registration. The first 20 tickets are £10 each (well £10.90 due to the Eventbrite fee). I might expand the number of ‘early bird’ tickets depending on the demand as I am only looking to cover the cost of the venue and would…

  • Lanyrd Launches

    Lanyrd is a new ‘social conference directory’ that was released out into the wild this morning and has already been a big hit on Twitter – which to be fair is very much the target market for the site. Lanyrd first and foremost is an events calendar that offers one place to find out what…

  • Mozilla Drumbeat Learning, Freedom and the Web Festival

    So the Drumbeat Festival opened for booking this week. I have booked my flights to Barcelona and I think I have decided on a hostel/hotel – the Gat Xino – apparently it is in a slightly sketchy area but it doesn’t sound too bad (but what the hell do I know – I’ve never been…

  • Explaining Eventstreams

    As I have mentioned a couple of times recently Stefan and I have embarked on a pretty ambitious side project based on a number of ideas I have had over the last couple of years about using the web to support events and conferences. As you would expect the roles have split pretty cleanly down…

  • Bringing Bettr Back

    So I’ve been thinking about trying to do another event focused on the ideas of education and learning focused start-ups and just generally the way the web is effecting education.  Having recently read DIY-U and met some of the people referenced in it as well as revisiting some of the posts about the Hacking Education…