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Hopefully everyone reading this has had a chance to visit the Social Media Cafe in London, every Friday at the Coach and Horses, if not I highly recommend it.
Brighton branch? Josh Russell (my partner in many-a-crime) is organising the Brighton Social Media Cafe, 11am every Saturday upstairs at the Quadrant. Unfortunately doesn’t look like I’ll be able to make the first, but I recommend you do.
At dConstruct for the last few years I organized ‘pre-dConstruct pre-party Burgers’ (still time to signup for this years), for some it’s almost tradition now… I thought, “let’s do the same for Flash On The Beach“:
Add yourself to the Upcoming.org event so I can warn GBK in advance.
Last night I spoke at the £5 App event about Pistach.io. Ribot sponsored the event by providing beer with smart design process packaging & also Qiking the event. Here’s my slides via my Slideshare.
dConstruct is happening again soon & tickets go on sale on Tuesday. Historically it has been the best web conference in the UK and this year I’d imagine will be no different.
If dConstruct is on, that’ll mean dConstruct pre-party, if the dConstruct pre-party is on that’ll mean ‘pre-dConstruct pre-party Burgers’, it’s almost tradition now for some… one of GBK’s finest burger’s with great webby folks before a slow-burger-walk to the official dConstruct pre-party for fun & games.
Add yourself to the Upcoming.org event so I can warn GBK in advance.
Congratulations to Gra & Libby, two friends of mine for launching Nodestone. Nodestone is their new Brighton based consultancy focused on helping & educating those who want to “do good stuff in the world”, using social media.
Today they announced their learning package for charities, non-profits, social enterprises, community and volunteer sector. If you know of anyone who’ll benefit from this package, or more generally: reflective; practical support, with a social & eco twist pass it on!
My good friend Ben told me about his workshop for non-geeks on Friday while at the weekly coworking. I think it is a fantastic idea, and if you know someone in the area that would benefit from an introduction to any of the following, let them know:
I’ve worked with Ben in the past, and known him for nearly 10 years (… really that long already Ben?). I’ve been following him on Seesmic recently, much to my enjoyment, because he’s a thinker, and in-turn continually makes me think. I’m sure he can get your non-geeky friends thinking about what social media can do for them.
Sign up over at the Upcoming event, or check out Sussex Digital for more Brighton events.
In two Wednesdays time (13th of February) WiredSussex are putting on Brighton Digital Media Job Fair at the Jury’s Inn. They’ve got four main sessions; The Lunchtime Session, Freelancers Session, Brighton Internship Programme Event, & Informal networking drinks so plenty of networking! Brighton’s home to some really cool companies, a number which have stands at the job fair:
Sign up over at the Upcoming event, or check out Sussex Digital for more Brighton events.
This post is in response to dConstructing The Brighton(cisco) Scene, but for some reason I couldn’t post these comments, but could others (?). No idea what’s happening, but I lost my comment twice. The second time I copied it first, so here are my thoughts.
I’d like to point out that I’m not just involved with Joard, I’m also involved with Sussex Digital, which Josh Russell and I started.
“Ivan hosts a OpenCoffee morning meeting every Wednesday at 10am at the new Costa Coffee on London Rd.”, I didn’t know, anymore information? I know of the Thursday OpenCoffee at the Sussex Innovation Center.
I’d also like to point out that there’s an active community of Flash/Flex/Adobe people down here making it a great place for what I believe is the largest Flash conference in Europe, also later this year, Flash on the Beach.
This will be the third year of dConstruct in Brighton, I missed out on the first year as I was moving house (to Brighton none the less). Last year was a fantastic conference about API’s, and this years theme is user experience.
Tomorrow, at 11am, tickets officially go on sale. Here is your reminder, visit http://2007.dconstruct.org to get yours!
If your coming, find me at the pre and/or post party and introduce yourself… and if the parties are anything like last years you’re in for a treat. Veeliam snapped me throughout the evening, starting with respectable and just about respectable, then ending on a little drunk and attacking designers (so there is no confusion, I wasn’t really attacking Mr. Hicks), luckily I didn’t end up naked, wet, and exchausted after a dip in the sea.
See you there!
J.K. blogged it, Jane blogged it, Will blogged it, there’s been conversations about it, what is it? Sussex Digital.
Myself and Josh a week or two back launched Sussex Digital. We’re planning on releasing a new feature every week (and have a few more to come yet) and we’re hoping to built a useful hub for the community of media, digital, and web types in Brighton, and surrounding areas. We want your feedback. We want to put the focus on Sussex. We want to put the focus on the community we’ve got here, and the people in it. We know it’s here, after all, we’re part of it, let’s give everyone outside a chance to see what we’re all doing down here!
It’s no coincidence that 3 of the 4 freelance developers listed at Google.com when searching for freelance developer are from Brighton (the other 6 are firms or resources)!
About two months ago Martin threw the best web related event I’ve been to, TechTalk in Menorca. The event was great, the speakers were great, being outside for an event was great, and Loic threw videos on his own vpod channel for all to see. While there Martin gave out a free ‘La Fonera’ promocode, so I took him up on his offer.
We’ve joined (as a linus) the other ten or so fon hotspots in Brighton. (for free wifi in Brighton we also have Loose Connection, and Pier to Pier)
I might be preaching to the converted here, but the experience of setting up La Fonera, and managing it makes it so attractive to recommend it to my mom/grandmom/etc. I’ve long had a theory (and many others have I’m sure) that security issues should not at any point be handled by non-geeks.
fon is perfect! Yes, you have to trust fon as they handle security for you, and as Stefans Datenbruch and Michael Kebe pointed out by hacking La Fonera: there is potential for risk. They clarify “[it] wasn’t our intention to harm users or FON in any way”. I don’t think they did, hopefully they made fon stronger as it’s another security issue which hopefully end users won’t have to worry about, the experts at fon can.
P.S. you just got to watch their video: Matador El Café.