As the FB invites and upcoming feeds will no doubt have informed you the December meet has a bit of a festive flavour — we’re going to go crazy on glühwein and sausages at Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market.
Meet under the singing moose at any time after 6pm - Tuesday 9th December, retire to a local [...]
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About: Jon Bounds
Website: http://www.jonbounds.co.uk
Profile: Jon founded Birmingham: it's Not Shit, a website that markets Brum without ever mentioning 'canalside living'. He's worked in publishing, music journalism, and in a venetian blind factory. Now, after several years at the BBC, Jon is a freelance social media consultant and producer, writer and blogger. His common theme – tech plus people equals great things.
Posts by Jon:
December Bloggers’ Meet - Winterval Special
Never miss a meet again, add to your calendar
Unless you want to (which is fine)…
Facebook is rubbish, you get so many notification emails that when something comes along you want to know about it slips through the net. No-one’s suggesting that there won’t be FB events for Brum Bloggers meets sent out, but the bestest way is to use upcoming.org and the Brum [...]
The future is a scary place…
Since we’ve always tried to keep the bloggers group fast moving and democratic, we never decide anything untill the last moment. That led to the meets gravitating to the end of the month - as no-one got round to oranising them.
Since the lovely, but sort of overlapping, Birmingham Social Media Cafe is meeting regularily in [...]
Blog Action Day - October 15th
Last year the organised of Blog Action Day invited people to add a post to their blog about the environment, it was a huge success in terms of numbers. Blog Action Day is:
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same [...]
Picking a date for October Bloggers’ Meet, with the power of the interwebs
Twitter, while lovely, doesn’t really work for picking dates for things that everyone can do. So, prompted by something Dave Briggs tweeted (ah see, it does work, if even by proxy) I’ve set up a poll on a site called Doodle that tries to do if for you:
Pop over and cast your vote.
August Meet-up
Shall we say Thurs 28th at a suitable location?
more…WordPress Midlands Group
After the heady excitement of WordCampUK, people have been forming localised WordPress groups. For us it would be WordPress Midlands.
more…Brum Bloggers meet-up, Evening of Wed 23rd July - The Malt House
After a few twitter soundings I’ve stuck a pin in the 23rd of July for a meet-up this here month. As last months “turn up when the hell you like” worked well I vote we stick to it (there was a good spread of people, some from around 6, the majority there at 8 or [...]
more…Wordcamp UK, Brum 19th & 20th July - Tickets now on sale
Tickets are now on sale (at £35 or £70 if you’re feeling philanthropic) for the two days of Wordpress geekery that will be WordCamp UK. It’s to be held at The Studio (formerly the Orange Studio) just off New St in Birmingham. Saturday and Sunday 19th & 20th of July
Here’s the event on upcoming.
I’m trying [...]
Paradise Circus Book Club
Quick idea I had when at a meeting with Stuart and Kevin about the North Birmingham Social Enterprise last night — you know that sometimes people write really interesting things on dead trees about the interweb, Clay Shirky, David Whatsisface and so on…
Well, they’re not exactly the sort of books that you turn to like [...]
