1. An experiment with social media and my local environment

    I’m soliciting open and public responses about my local bus service, and using Get Satisfaction this took me all of about 15 minutes to do.

    I’m interested to see whether they will discover that they’re on the site without being prompted, and that people are trying to communicate with them there. Whether it will make any difference at all is of course the big question. It might not get used or it might just fill up with complaints and suggestions that go unheard.

    Here are your action points:

    1. if you live in Brighton and/or Hove go and read the comments or maybe even leave a suggestion or complaint
    2. add your local public services to Get Satisfaction, or maybe your whole council or local authority and all it’s various parts, and open up discussion in a public space

    Maybe we’ll turn alpha citizens into alpha geeks!

    Posted August 28, 2008 in the Services category, with the tags: , , , , and no comments yet

  2. You’re invited to predict the next 100 years

    Up to the challenge?

    Brian Suda and I (and many others!) seem to continually discuss what may be.

    We’re geeks, obviously, but as Chris Messina quoted while at Reboot, “Alpha-geeks are becoming alpha-citizens.“, and thus we discuss all manner of subjects:

    • technology
    • sociology
    • ecology
    • business
    • ethics
    • psychology

    The list goes on. But all these conversations eventually evaluate the past, and then try to work out how things may change. Sometimes for the worse, but hopefully for the better!

    Finding inspiration from an article written 100 years ago in The Ladies Home Journal, predicting the year 2000, we decided to try and do what they did and predict the future, 1 year from now, then 10, and then 100 years to the year 2100!

    You’re now invited to join us in these predictions, firstly online, and then at a short meet up just before the dConstruct conference in Brighton. When we meet, we’ll also discuss the predictions submitted online.

    So go submit your predictions, and then join us on the day!

    http://predictions.sudabot.com/ < -- This is the important bit!

    We’ll meet on September the 4th in Brighton at 5.30pm (upcoming), location TBD.

    P.s. don’t feel any pressure to be 100% accurate, this is supposed to be fun too :)

    Posted August 19, 2008 in the History category, with the tags: , , , , , , and no comments yet

  3. Mobile Industry Review, my podcast debut!

    On Friday I had the honor of being the special guest on episode 17 of the Mobile Industry Review podcast.


    Mobile Industry Review Video 17 from Ewan MacLeod on Vimeo.

    It was great fun, we spent a few hours in Covent Garden putting it together, and generally being geeks in public. Which in this case was great fun :)

    I got to talk about the start of the upcoming Brighton Tuttle Club (Social Media Cafe), and a little about the future of tracking offline to mobile conversions and location specific behavioral patterns. Something that I’m really interested in at the moment, and will happily talk about, come find me at the weekly Tuttle!

    Mobile Industry Review podcast shoot

    Posted August 11, 2008 in the Mobile category, with the tags: , , , , , , , and no comments yet

  4. The Brighton Social Media Cafe

    Since I attended the my first London Social Media Cafe (also referred to as the Tuttle club after Harry Tuttle) I wanted to recreate the atmosphere and environment at an event here in Brighton.

    Tuttle, from Sizemore photo by Sizemore

    The room, while small, was crowded with people. Some old friends, and many that hadn’t attended before. All caught up in the excitement of being around people with genuinely interesting backgrounds and experiences. The conversation was loud and enthusiastic, if you know me then you’ll know that I thrive in that :)

    So now I’m ready to announce that the Brighton branch will be starting on Saturday the 16th of August, at 11am, upstairs at the Quadrant.

    What is it?
    The Social Media Cafe, or Tuttle Club, is a place for people interested in social media to gather, get acquainted, and to plot, scheme, and share.. emphasis on open and interesting conversating!

    Who should come?
    If you’re interested in the future of media, how we organise, share, produce and enjoy it, then come along. If you’re an artist, film maker, geek, musician, designer, writer, photographer, or anything close or related, then come along. If you want to meet like minds, come along.

    With the help of sponsors (which we welcome more of!) the coffee is free, and there should be some breakfast snacks to get us going. There’s free wifi, so bring your laptops if you need to get some work done or want to show off what you’ve been to..

    I’m really looking forward to seeing you there!

    Update: We have our first sponsor, local social media agency Nixon McInnes. Cheers guys!

    Posted August 5, 2008 in the events category, with the tags: , , , , , , , , and 1 comment