Tag Archives: Digbeth is Good

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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myvillage.com

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Getgood

Today I picked up on the above post from 853 blog’s manager Darryl, apologising to his readers for altering his RSS feed and blaming ‘thieving myvillage idiots’: …unfortunately I?ve had to bring this into place because of abuse of the … Continue reading →

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That was the week that was

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Getgood

Last week was one of a few milestones for me.  Here they are then: We Share Stuff became a limited company.  Congratulations! Digbeth is Good turned 1 year old – Pete Ashton’s response when I told him this was, “Christ, … Continue reading →

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Post to calendar

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Getgood

I asked this question on Twitter a little while back but got no response, so I’ll ask it again with feeling in more than 140 characters. Digbeth is Good has a Calendar page which is basically an embedded public Google … Continue reading →

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WxWM: An overdue retrospective

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Getgood

Nicky Getgood on Digbeth and local blogging at WxWM from Jon Bounds on Vimeo. It?s time for my very long overdue post about WxWM, brainchild Shona McQuillan?s local alternative to SxSWi. What was most amazing about it was that, within … Continue reading →

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If only I’d known

Posted on October 25, 2008 by Getgood

Finally, after weeks of nagging poor Pete Ashton like a fishwife for FTP access to the Digbeth is Good blog, he’s on it. So whilst I wait for every ISP in the world to change, and relish the prospect of … Continue reading →

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FLIPing rubbish

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Getgood

On Digbeth is Good I recently write a post about Lizzy Piffany’s song I Hate Men after seeing her play it the Sunday Xpress in the Adam and Eve. I had tried to film it, but my crappy camera could … Continue reading →

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Digbeth Is Good

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Getgood

I should know, I live here. Luckily that’s what Pete Ashton thinks so, after creating the new blog site Digbeth Is Good, he decided to let me blog on it. Which is what I’ve been doing for the past week … Continue reading →

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