Archive for September, 2007

The Peril of Perfectionism explained by the News Diamond.

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 | No Comments »

We all know how perfectionism can paralyse. I suspect it can be more damaging for large voluntary organisations than smaller ones. David Brazeal writes about this as it relates to organisations and social media:
When you’re printing 5,000 slick handouts, it makes sense to write, and share with colleagues, and rewrite, and proofread, and rewrite [...]

Clean Medina - the Jihad on Litter in Brum. New podcast.

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Does it seem extreme to declare a Jihad on litter?

Not to a group in Small Heath in Birmingham. Clean Medina says that Muslim neighbourhoods in the city are far too messy and they want to change that. So they’ve launched a “struggle’ against rubbish and waste, and whilst they’re [...]

 
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Birmingham Cafes and Free Wifi.

Saturday, September 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Like Pete I firmly believe that free wifi is a key factor in giving a cafe my custom. So I’ve just set up a flickr group for Brum hostelries with free wifi. Please add you pics and use the location tags (make sure they are set to public) so we can all find and encourage [...]

Pangea - Global competition/carnival for citizen storytellers.

Friday, September 14th, 2007 | No Comments »

Wonderful new by-product of TED

Pangeaday is a non-profit project to get people telling stories on film and sharing them.  In 241 days the most compelling films will be showcased at events in major cities across the globe.

B29 Blog. (Selly Oak to you and me)

Friday, September 14th, 2007 | No Comments »

This I like. Very Local. Very Neighbourhood, including a flickr group:
maybe, just maybe, there’ll be a few more postcode districts across the UK (there are 2,900 of them apparently) that’ll decide to follow suit, and then things really could get interesting!

Blogging Brummie Bus Driver

Friday, September 14th, 2007 | No Comments »

Here.  Thanks.

Birmingham it’s not shit is even less shit.

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | No Comments »

Nice site revamp Jon. Web 1.5 to 2.0

Facebook and Boredom

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Lloyd Davis (on facebook) pointed me to this headline   FACEBOOK DISTRACTING WORKERS FROM UNDERPAID, SOUL-DESTROYING TEDIUM, SAYS CBI   which is the point we were trying to make here.