Create something day 2: Get your people to blog my people

It looks like my rhythm is going to be - come up with an idea, develop it, then get up at 6.30 and finish it off and upload it, so everything’s shifted by a few hours.

Anyway, I’ve had this tshirt idea at the back of my mind for some time, so I thought I’d get it down in pixels.

Funnily enough, it ties in with some of the things that Pete Ashton and I have been talking about - getting Birmingham creative and cultural organisations and people to upload their content and start dialogs with eachother with blogs/vlogs/flickr/tumblr/etc.

Pete’s thinking we should start organising some events where we get a number of people who know how things work in the internet(s?) to help people understand how they can use this new stuff to their advantage. Great idea - and I’ve been thinking the same for a while now.

Obvious contenders to speak to would be Audiences Central and Digital Birmingham…

Tuesday on the whole was relatively uncreative on a personal level.

UCE have taken all of their websites in-house, so as of the end of this year I’ll be taking Birmingham School of Acting and UCE Birmingham Business School off my client list for web work, which is a real shame given the hard work we put in building a very robust bespoke content management system for each.

Apparently, Sharepoint is the order of the day. Erm… I wish you well!

Other than that, it was some further development on the Jamie Oliver project and on the Marketing Birmingham Arts project which are coming along nicely, but yep - nothing to show on the blog yet.

And the presentation to AWM went well - we had the Chief Executive John Edwards, the Chairman Nick Paul, the Corporate Director Economic Regeneration Mark Pearce and Enterprise Board Chair John Crabtree round a table, with Mark Ball, Stuart Griffiths and Anita Bhalla from the BBC (and me - the youngest of the group).

Quote of the night - “We take you seriously - otherwise we wouldn’t be here.” Some positive discussions followed, some criticisms and we were given some challenges that we’re going to respond to.

A busy day, a late night - but I’m glad I managed to get this idea complete. Maybe that’s what I’ll aim for - nuggety pieces of digital content. So far so good.