quicklink | cleantech 1st event signup
i managed to catchup quickly with nick gostick from the new cleantech centre near the jubilee campus today and the home of fibrecamp II. we got our paperwork so we are all set!
if your interested in coming tomorrow, still some places at £50 a head for half a day, should be an interesting group of people - small, but perfectly formed for a first event.
morning.
it's 11:11 on the saturday morning as per usual - i'm reflecting on a january that seems to have just raced by, at this pace we will be rocking up to december again! :)
i'm heading over to get ella this morning as my usual saturday morning trip over to burton, it's actually the only time i actually wanna visit the place.
i guess you just get used to a place, in some ways nottingham has that effect on me sometimes. i've been spoilt from some of the places i've travelled across the globe and i've still got places to see.
still not got transport and that's one of the most important things that is playing on my mind at the moment but the calendar is certainly filling up for the months of feb and march for work which is a 'good' thing.
january is full of reviewing and testing and speaking. i'm going to be reviewing the first year students work so far on prototypes of the nomad jacket on the 26th at the nottingham ntu and then on the 29th i'm doing a lecture to the 3rd year multimedia students about social media as they are heading out to the 'real world' to show their stuff.
some reality shocks planned there to be honest. early feb sees me doing a speaking session at the new base of fibrecamp two the cleantech building near the jubilee campus in the ng7 district regarding community building using social media.
i really need to come up with a plan for flight casing equipment, would be easy to drop in for a few days a week instead of having kit there permanent - i guess we could leave some lights there.
had a good meeting (lunch) with celialacy from lincuplive which is a 100+ person conference at the end of february in lincoln. i'll be helping manage the student social media team of 12.
getting them into position and coming up with a plan to cover the venue as much as possible for a remote audience. i guess i'll have to hire a suit for that then if we are getting the five star usual lincuplive treatment.
quite excited about that job actually. i've been busy trying to re-work some of my presentations for the 29th/2nd using a new presentation style using impress.js (it runs in the browser - certain browsers that is) which uses css3 transforms to move things around a canvas - it's a bit of learning curve and could really do with a builder but once i have my structure it should be easy to duplicate that style for all my presentations.
i just need to see if it can handle pictures and videos like i want else i have to go back to keynote. i quite like not having to have plugins and such like and i've been thinking i can make some interesting infographic style videos with music and voiceovers - something i could spread on wistia, vimeo and youtube with transcripts too.
we had a meeting the other week about co-tender as well. an idea about working together on projects and stops the 'kicking off tyres' from people wanting web projects but have no idea what they should be asking for.
it's a really useful (basic) service that will email all potential workers on the project regarding elements they can do on that project. i've yet to send out the first newsletter because i'm waiting on the lab-media guys to get back to me regarding the grid/widget - we will probably use that as the infrastructure of getting information back regarding a person.
i'm really behind on newsletters. i'm not really feeling the mailchimp template system i'm using at the moment, the campaign monitor one looks better to build templates with but then the features and layout are not as good as mailchimp. torn.
i really need to start bringing in additional advocacy work over these next few months to speed up the development of the 3x3/widget grid.
i really want it to be supporting about six api's and maybe have something that natively works as a plugin for wordpress as well - to do this i really need to up the monthly payments to labmedia and at the moment on the income i have (which is not a lot believe it or not because of the way i live right now) it's hard to get much done each month.
lastly talking about wordpress i have a stack of sites for the nottingham area that need themes but i'm not in the position to get them started by getting some decent woothemes stuck on them until they can start to bring their own cash in, as some one said the other week 'until they start to wash their own face' - i love that expression.
i'll get a license for some themes over the coming weeks and start to plug them into buysellads and start to flyer nottingham to get the students blogging.
i have a plan. i have many plans ;)
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it's taken five years to get to this point.
by that i mean it feels that it's taken me five years to be ready from a digital footprint space to be a brand advocate for technology and brands that i enjoy.
the .tv advocacy has been an amazing validation of blogging and being a videoblogger. more and more companies are realising that they need advocates out in the digital frontier and ontheground at events fighting their corner for actual real life usage.
every manufacturer is tightening up on r&d and development these days and companies/brands can be made or broken based on quality products and the background ethics of the business via social media channels in a moment.
we live in a realtime, on demand world with a customer, consumer base of people globally that demand devices, technology and elements that help us live our lives. the true power of social media elements to the engagement of people in all chains of a business are here. it's allowing anyone to connect with a brand and visa versa.
my advocacy is quite simple. and that's why it works well for me. it's a paid blogger position that requires me to produce video media, blog posts or social network support as a remote advocate (read: almost a virtual worker invested in the companies projects and products) basically doing the things i'm already doing with fibrecamp but as part of a team of already well respected social media people who have been building up their own personal brands for the last few years.
i'm very keen to show some of the more dynamic cleantech, greentech companies in nottingham how to do the things i do across a variety of services so they can get their message out about the products they are working on.
it's a really exciting arena - fusing together new technology, new ethical ways of working with technology that invests much needed thought about the ramifications of the devices they are making and how we use them.
this makes for really interesting video content for the realtime web and opens up a new fibrecamp space that we are very keen to move into and document -- i'm hoping we can use our .tv advocacy to launch a cleantech .tv channel for the east midlands and nottingham area.
i think all companies that do business over the internet should have brand advocates even if just internal workers who have a clear outline of what they can do and say via social networks within the business all over the world in a digitally connected sense.
it's daytime somewhere in the world and people want information about your brand, do you have the right operatives in the right location?
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quicklink | the nottingham cleantech centre launches!
The GreenTech Business Network would like to announce the launch of the Nottingham CleanTech Centre (NCTC), the first incubator in the region dedicated to accommodating and supporting start-ups and small companies involved in clean technologies.
exciting!
something very close to my heart is the merging together of social media, ethics, technology and enviromental issues. we have the ability to make our voices heard, the ability to do the right thing by the products and services we offer and the technology processes advancing and superlative speeds that we can make subtle changes to the way we engage with our enviroment.
my whole ark project is focused around what a single person can do not only to live more sustainable but redefine what a new fresh life looks like whilst still utilizing technology to improve the relations and contacts around us to be able to live in a digitally connected world with those assets around us with the internet doing the heavy lifting between it.
indeed the ark will use a lot of technology but in an optimized way, it will look at power and need over want, utilizing elements of the cloud to interact with at a glance without too much thought of taking time out to focus on the creation of the content but more of a virtual intergrated element of my day to day life -- taking social media and using it as a barometer or social ping to the people that lie between the studio and the off the grid enviroment.
so it fills me with great pleasure to be in a potential hub of startups who are using clean, green technology focus to build out products, systems and ideas. for me, it feels like a bit of a nirvana space and makes the last year of rounding out ideas with fibrecamp one the catalyst leading up to this new space.
what makes 2012 more exciting is the possibility quite quickly of fibrecamp III located in ghent in belgium as a european headquarters and makes spreading the idea of hyperlocal media based studios servicing the five or six blocks around it's area a real interesting hot pot of digital outreach with the businesses being more than just a partner graphic on a website.
it sparks regular interaction bringing down the potential 'head down desk' mode i see from so many companies when it comes to building out services. sharing, in the business space is as much a requirement as it is for the social realtime world we live in.
i have a really good feeling about the cleantech centre in nottingham, we are going in at ground level, at the rebirth of a space and a refresh for a building that is already bought, it's owned -- it's not rented or has potential of being problematic -- it's a blank canvas of sorts with the potential to foster some fantastic green tech stars of nottingham and the midland arena.
best of all we get to help them understand the world of social media and create media around some of the exciting concepts and processes these green tech companies have which will obviously feed a foundation of topics for the ark project in 2012.
it's a perfect fit. we can't wait to get started! :)
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so for this blog post i thought i'd test out blogsy.
gotta be honest i'm a bit freaked out that i have to be online to get to my camera roll? - that's just weird and the actual swapping between writing and rich text side is strange as well. i'd prefer to see a better version of the image instead of the thumbnail mode that i currently have.
anyway, back to the point - goodies! really chuffed this week to receive a number of things including my swagger from watch dot tv which is this amazing quality bag with the .tv logo stiched on the front. great bag, beats carting around using the picnic bag that i had to resort to after the kata bag zips had failed me.
in fact i'm still waiting on a replacement. what started out as a really flawless customer service experience via email has dragged on a while now and i would have expected to have seen the replacement bag by now. i love that bag. it would complement this one actually.
also provided was a kodak playtouch .tv branded camera and a bunch of tshirts for the advocacy. it felt good to receive a bunch of 'advocate' empowering elements in the post i have to say, especially as i was expecting it too be the mbr1400 cradlepoint router, so a nice surprise.
i'll be talking about the router in another post probably after this, i cannot really go into too much detail about the admin and setup yet however as i'm waiting on a power supply to be sent out to get it going -- came with a stateside one.
it's been a busy month and i'm still not finished with the digital advent calendar, i've got a bunch of blog posts to write on my trip down to exeter today and i'm hoping that four hour window will provide me with the headspace to write them.
i'm started blogging so that's a good thing, currently speeding towards birmingham new street to swap over trains to catch the 13:12 to plymouth. hope your enjoying the digital advent calendar, i know some of the posts have been a little bit weak but trying to get the blog posts done, the twitter posting scheduled and actually recording the videos between getting prepared for christmas and new year (especially after not getting vlomo november finished) is a bit of a challenge, some of the ones after christmas day thou are pretty good and i'll be putting some effort into the installing a blogging platform for your .tv domain.
thanks go out to jane and her team for being so efficient and a pleasure to work with on this brand advocacy -- i'm really excited to see what 2012 can bring with this project and is a good base to get out what it is that the fibrecamp studio spaces can do for popup, dropin and run and gun web video media making as part of a busy working weekday.
watch out for some exciting news tomorrow about the second fibrecamp base in nottingham that is popping up near the university -- it's a perfect fit with the ark/greentech projects we want to be engaged with next year.
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phil campbell, one of many around the world
a digital semi settled life ninja using web tools,
and making media to re-engage and enable.
super confident and hyper sensitive at times.
street-geek aware, connector and disruptor.
i use twitter like a post it note
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