The Case for Manchester Open Data City and the Joys of Courting Corporate Philanthropy

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies

Social Media Cafe Manchester, February 2010, in progress

Here come my notes from Tuesday’s Social Media Cafe Manchester event at the BBC’s offices on Oxford Road.

I’ve been a big fan of Social Media Cafe Manchester since being invited to be on the ‘panel of bloggers’ at the very first event in November 2008.  Whenever I can I try to blog about each ‘#smc_mcr’ I attend, after the event.

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Sheffield Melts Creativity – Melt 2008 Inspiration Session – Part 2

Posted on 07. Sep, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Multi-Platform Content

Melt BlowtorchThis is a brief write-up of my notes from the rather inspiring Melt 2008 Inspiration Session, Part 2.  Here’s Part 1.

Here I serve up scribbles from Paula Le Dieu, director of Magic Lantern’s talk.  Like Adam Gee, Paula has been on the Melt panel for a period of time, two years to be precise.

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