community

DigitalSurrey January 2012

On the 25th January, DigitalSurrey will welcome Surrey's Chief Superintendent for Neighbourhoods, Gavin Stephens, who will be discussing Surrey Police's use of digital.

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Date: 25 January 2012
Location: University Of Surrey, UK

Community Cove Unconference

At giffgaff, we want to change the way communities are run for the better. To kick off our monthly community cove events, we wanted to have a day unconference/ barcamp/ community camp so you can meet other people interested in making communities the best they can be.

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Date: 19 February 2010
Location: Centre for Creative Collaboration, UK

Building internal and external communities from scratch

Come join community cove, hosted by giffgaff and Albion to look at how to build internal and external communities for startups and other businesses. This event will be applicable to any company or individual wanting to have the right team in the office and out there in the community.

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Date: 10 November 2010
Location: Albion Agency, UK

Sheffield Doc/Fest - Involving Communities: Thinking Beyond Broadcast

Sheffield Doc/Fest - Involving Communities: Thinking Beyond Broadcast is a series of panels that look at innovative ways of involving communities in film and digital media. As a specially focused strand, there’s a collection of panels, keynote speeches, roundtable talks and networking opportunities.

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Date: 5 November 2010
Location: Various venues, UK

London Net Tuesday - Community Problem Solving

Come discuss a new toolset geared at helping local communities surface issues, find the resources and strategies to address them, and then make change!

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Date: 2 February 2010
Location: Curzon Cinema, UK

Straight Line Thinking Stops Here

This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film) The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures (watch the video) last year and is culminating in a course, book and research project.

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Date: 16 March 2010
Location: Austin Convention Centtre, US

NextGen 09

NextGen 09 is a one and a half day conference and exhibition with on day 1 the option of 2 specific workshops: Fibrecamp Britain and Digital Region hands-on.

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Date: 16 November 2009
Location: Royal Armouries, UK

The London Community Drinkup

The inuagural London Community Drinkup where we'll talk about communities and stuff (maybe someone will help us write engaging copy for communities and stuff).

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Date: 27 August 2009
Location: TBC, UK

Gnomedex 9.0

The ninth Gnomedex conference is generating a fair amount of buzz in the blogosphere, which underscores our reason to produce it. Indeed, we will once again become the crossroads between producers and observers, between users and developers.

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Date: 20 August 2009
Location: Bell Harbor Conference Center, US

Open Tech 2009

Open Tech 2009 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, democracy and community. This year's theme is "Working on Stuff that Matters" guarantees a day of thoughtful talks and conversations with friends.

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Date: 4 July 2009
Location: University of London Union, UK

Online Community Unconference: East

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Date: 11 February 2009
Location: Baruch College Conference Center, UK

AOP Forum: Developing Communities around Content

How do publishers and media owners benefit from the social networking explosion and tie that in with their existing content and communities? This forum aims to advise and showcase examples of new communities and skill sets which can enhance the content, conversation and commercialisation of your user base.

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Date: 11 December 2008
Location: Blue Fin Building, UK

Digg – the prototype for the future web

While having a browse online I came across this little belter - A Beginner's Guide To Digg on the Pronet Advertising blog. It’s two years old but hey it’s still pretty good.

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SXSW Interactive 08 panel - The 10 Commandments of Nice

On 9th March I swung by the session hosted by the Preloaded guys. Ten Commandments? The sheer (tongue-in) cheek of it intrigued me...

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Chinwag Groups on Facebook and now LinkedIn

In a fit of configuration and setting this up, we've created a new group for Chinwaggers on LinkedIn. This comes hot on the heels of the Facebook group, which has been a handy way of keeping people in touch with the latest happenings at Chinwag Towers.

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