Category: Events

Carrotmob Bristol an update

Well a lot has been happening and there are a couple of conversation threads so I thought I’d put up a quick ‘story so far…’ Craig Hellen (Pod Chains) brought up Carrotmob at the OpenCoffee meeting on 1 July. We were talking about Seedcamp and various ideas for supporting innovative new businesses across the South… Continue reading Carrotmob Bristol an update

Hidden Innovation in the Creative Industries

Uploaded on June 26, 2008 by Phil Hawksworth Yesterday was spent in Manchester at the NESTA launch of their latest report (pdf not live yet) into innovation in the Creative Industries. From a broad reading of the report, it seems to largely reflect last year’s report that much innovation in industry isn’t recorded in official… Continue reading Hidden Innovation in the Creative Industries

Learning un-learning

Uploaded on 12 May, 2006 by Marvin (PA) I hot-footed it from Cheltenham to the Pervasive Media Studio a couple nights back for a Gurteen Knowledge Cafe. The topic was ‘unlearning’ which is a sufficiently interesting topic for a Knowledge Transfer/Exchange professional to drag me out and through the wind and rain that Bristol chose… Continue reading Learning un-learning

What’s the BizIdea?

[Disclosure: I attended in my role as Flagship Initiative Adviser for Knowledge West, we have the Knowledge West Enterprise Awards, which brings together competitors from the 6 University Business Plan competitions in the area. However, I’m not on that judging panel, nor this one, and my views here are not those of Knowledge West.] After… Continue reading What’s the BizIdea?

OpenCoffee Bristol keeps growing

Uploaded on January 7, 2008 by wabberjocky Open Coffee continues to grow in Bristol with more new faces plus a good number of ‘regulars’. There was a definite mobile-video thing going on (at least around the conversations I heard). Matt Thurling from Science.TV (a video sharing community dedicated to science communication) was a new face… Continue reading OpenCoffee Bristol keeps growing

Open Coffee launch details

I mentioned earlier on Twitter that I was hoping to confirm some additional support for Open Coffee, well Starbucks are getting behind us and offering free coffee, free muffins and free WiFi to attendees of Open Coffee at 9am Tuesday, 6 May. We’ll be downstairs at the Starbucks on Park Street (map). Kick off will… Continue reading Open Coffee launch details

Conference

What should you expect when you attend an academic conference? I guess the first thing to say is that to date I have only been to one conference when I have not been presenting either a poster, or giving an oral address, and usually I am doing multiple things. So I have relatively high expectations… Continue reading Conference

Shifting sands of conversation

Normally I’d be sat here writing up tonight’s event in the Watershed featuring the Pervasive Media Sandbox mid-term report / presentation thing. But I’ve already done that on Twitter. In fact there were at least 2 others twittering (@iamdanw & @sammachin) and I suspect a few others as well. The inimitable Scoble has noted that… Continue reading Shifting sands of conversation