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Here’s a short film we made last week for Be Birmingham, the city’s recently revamped Local Strategic Partnership.
The film is a short piece which includes Dame Ellen MacArthur talking about the launch of the partnerships CO2 challenge for 2008 – that each of us [...]

This isn’t new – but I’ve just become aware of Google Analytics thanks to this tweet.

Very useful tool for telling us the age/gender and location of the people who are watching our Youtube films. You can find it by clicking on My Account once you’re logged into Youtube and scrolling down until [...]

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A Clare Edwards tweet alerted me to the video above which is promoting Soweto Kinch’s Flyover Show (May 31st underneath the Hockley Flyover in Birmingham (and its free). The fact that this is happening is proof of Soweto’s credentials as an active citizen [...]

 

 Soweto Kinch podcast on the Grassroots Chanel from October 2006 [11:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Students at Frankley High have returned to their experiment with podcasting which I was helping to support last year. It’s taken a while to get back but we’re hoping to create a learning group where those who worked with us last year begin to show the teachers how to use the kit.

We also went [...]

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This Youtube channel is my idea of good. A series of cleanly made but short (typically 3 mins) videos on personal experience of discrimination and reflections on human rights. The film above is from Michael Etkind, who survived a Nazi concentration camp. [...]

A month ago Eccentric City put up the offer of a £1 commission and I wrote this – saying I’d pay anyone who came up with something a tenner – really just meddling with being a patron of the arts…

Well Pete Ashton tells me that Simon Raven came up with this remarkable film:

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I like this Youtube video from Birmingham City University English department.

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If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do? Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Programme Reward Grant (NPRG) – a £10,000 pilot programme – to allow [...]

 

 Bordesley Green and the Birmingham NPRG Pilot - Margaret Bannon [10:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download