Category Archives: Doing my thing

Conway Road Memories… and a big future happening

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Getgood

In last month’s Long time, no blog post I alluded to a ‘big personal project’ on the horizon – all is revealed in the above film! This film is my first stab at creating a digital story, the result of … Continue reading →

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Jenny and Mary out to play

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Getgood

Another rough and ready bit of creative writing – the result of a second ‘story circle’ exercise we were set during the digital storytelling course I attended over over Easter. We had to very quickly create a story from a photograph … Continue reading →

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Grandmother takes the tube

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Getgood

One of ‘story circle’ exercises we were set during the digital storytelling course I attended over over Easter was to very quickly create a story from a series of random words we’d all come up with. Above is the picture … Continue reading →

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Long time, no blog

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Getgood

Well, it’s that time when I take a look at the blog and realised it hasn’t been updated for two months. So it made me think on what the hell I’ve been doing for the last couple of months and … Continue reading →

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101 ways to communicate with your council

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Getgood

At the beginning of the month Simon Whitehouse asked me lead a session at the last Birmingham Brewcamp, where people ‘drink tea, eat cake, learn stuff’, by outlining what I’d like from Birmingham City Council that I felt was currently lacking. … Continue reading →

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StoryCamp is happening!

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Getgood

I’ve been very vocal about this on twitter, so it will be news to no-one. From initial  StoryCamp musings came a twitter conversation, some further discussion on a specially created Posterous Group (which is a darned good tool that’s worth … Continue reading →

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Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys! comes to Birmingham

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Getgood

I love it when a plan comes together!

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Thoughts of a possible #StoryCamp

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Getgood

Digital storytellers, meet hyperlocalists on Prezi The day before I went to LocalGovCamp in Birmingham last Saturday, I was at the DS6 Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth, where digital storytelling practitioners from the likes of Digital Storytelling Asia, Patient Voices … Continue reading →

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Free the archives!

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Getgood

March 31st saw Hyperlocal Bloggers meet the BBC in the West Midlands, a much-needed event organised by Nick Booth.  At the start Nick asked people present to say the issues they’d like to be discussed so I took the opportunity to … Continue reading →

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Link: A long way back | Film | The Guardian

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Getgood

A long way back | Film | The Guardian – ‘They left Ireland for England as young men… and never returned. As a film documents their homecoming 40 years later, Jon McGregor meets the exiles.’ An amazing article around the … Continue reading →

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