NOISE Lab – Manchester’s Audacious Pop Up Store For Creative City Centre Urbanites
Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired
T-shirt: Mark Wigan creation on sale at NOISE Lab
I really enjoyed last Thursday’s launch of the NOISE Lab, a ‘guerilla arts pop up store’ nestled opposite the Orange Shop and next to Boots the Chemists right on the Great Manchester High Street aka Market Street.
Situated in the former Shelly’s footwear outlet, next to Schuh and in prime shopping centre real estate, this incredibly bold 6 month long ‘experiment’ is born out of the national NOISEFestival.com project, an online community where young creatives in film, music, visual arts and many other creative disciplines develop and showcase their (first, in many cases) online portfolio.
WordCamp UK 2010 is happening in Manchester… woot!!
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Announcements, Inspired
You have to wait 10 weeks for a blog post and then two tumble out in two days!
As I shared in the last post, I’ve been pushing hard on a number of fronts over the last few weeks but this is one result I’m really pleased about.
I found out over the weekend that the bid I entered for Manchester to host WordCamp UK 2010 has been accepted, beating Portsmouth’s strong offer.
This can only mean one thing:
WordCamp UK 2010 is happening in Manchester!
Fundraising using Social Media: Mashable’s Summer of Social Good Case Study
Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Social Media Strategies
Another momentous month has flown by.
Amongst a raft of new project developments for Real Fresh TV (more on this on the soon-to-be unveiled new website!), a number of significant developments have taken place in the burgeoning social media industry relating to charity fundraising I feel I most post about.
The Case for Open Source in Enterprise aka What I Learnt at WordCamp UK 2009
Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired
Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder & Chi-chi, WordCamp UK 2009
After two frenetic days at Arts Council England’s Art of Digital London event in Sadler’s Wells which I liveblogged as part of the AmbITion content team, I was in welcoming Wales for WordCamp UK 2009.
Skillset North Launch and a Quick Update on 7 Wonders in 7 Days
Posted on 05. Jul, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired
I’m finally blogging my notes from a couple of key industry events I attended in the last month. This post is about the launch of Skillset North. I will blog about developments at MediaCity:UK in a follow up post.
7 Wonders In 7 Days – my Social Media for Social Change project
Posted on 15. May, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Social Media Strategies
Some of you may be aware that I have recently launched an epic yet exciting project called 7 Wonders In 7 Days.
Instigated by a number of things including Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire TV programme, I’ve set out to visit all new 7 wonders of the world in 7 days, setting off on 9th September 2009 -9/09/09- with the goal of raising £777,000 for 7 worthy charities.
Free Ticket Giveaway: WordCamp UK, 18-19 July, 2009
Posted on 12. May, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Your Opinion, Please
I’m giving away a free ticket to attend WordCamp UK 2009, the WordPress UK Conference in July. Read on to find out why!
It’s been an absolute pleasure to be involved in the planning for the second ever WordCamp UK conference.
Using Twitter to Raise Money for Charity AKA Social Media For Social Good – #smc_mcr
Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Social Media Strategies
Last night’s Social Media Cafe Manchester, the 6 month anniversary of the events was a fantastic reminder of just how quickly social media has gripped the imagination of the British public.
Make that how quickly Twitter has gripped the imagination of the British public.
I attended the Twitter Titters session at yesterday’s unconference-style face-to-face social networking event(!). There’s more details on the other session by Futuresonic founder Drew Hemment here.
Hosted by Louise Bolotin and Christina McDermott, two thirds of the team behind the Twitter Titters book put together to raise money for Comic Relief through Twitter, it was a fascinating insight into how to use Twitter to raise money for charity and promote a book on the web. You can follow Louise Bolotin and Christina McDermott on Twitter.
Already, there are some great write ups about the session on the interwebs. Jon Clements of the PR Media blog posts his take here and here’s Democracy PR’s Jennifer O’Grady’s helpful overview.
What follows are my notes from the event:
Mobile Twitter Guide – How To Use Twitter From Your Mobile Phone
Posted on 02. Mar, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Social Media Strategies
What can I say, I leave the country for a couple of weeks to attend my gran’s funeral in Nigeria and I return to find the UK taken over by tweetfiends Twitterholics!
Only kidding of course.
On a more serious note, Twitter is weaving its way into the US Congress, much like it is making its mark on UK parliament.
Lots to say and report on as far as Real Fresh social media projects is concerned but in the mean time, here’s a post I sent to Chinwag’s incredibly active WebTV list on how to set up your mobile phone to use Twitter a while back.
It appears quite a few (non-techie) people are flummoxed about how to set up mobile phones to enable Twittering on the go.
All this talk of helping online journalism students learn Twitter using the (nifty) #twask hashtag inspired me to dig this out from my inbox and post it on the web.
Hope it helps someone. If you found it useful please tell me why in the comments!
Landmine Charity MAG Kicks Off Ambitious Poetry Prize Using Social Media
Posted on 16. Dec, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Social Media Strategies
It’s not often I get the opportunity to combine social media with a worthy cause and so I was rather excited to hear that one of the last attendees on the Social Media Starter Course has joined forces with MAG (Mines Advisory Group), the Manchester landline charity, to kick off an ambitious online poetry competition using social media.
Peter Hartey is behind Poetic Republic, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the poetic arts and humanitarian causes. Poetic Republic was born out of Poetica, a completely open writing forum based in Central Library, Manchester.
