quicklink | gerrys posterous

after dropping ella back to sam yesterday i headed up to the heart of the national forest at conkers to meet up with gerry obrian, the ranger at conkers to discuss some locations of the potential ark project - http://helpbuildtheark.com (we still need your donations - and if your a business please ask us for our media pack) within the grounds as part of a year long project about technology, energy creation and consumption.

originally we had planned to put the ark at the university of nottingham which would have been fantastic for the internet streaming and give us great bandwidth but after multiple times of having that 'gut instict' feeling and general feedback from others (including the pr staff of the university indirectly) it made me realise that the eco credentials that a project like this deserves means that i need to concentrate on the actual context of the content output.  the ark and experience should be primary to everything, the streaming and tech side should come afterwards.

having to be creative in terms of getting internet (we have some wifi at the site) is actually quite a challenge and we went up onto the roof to have a look at line of sight and potential bouncing locations for firing a chunkier internet connection via radio or even laser alignment and bouncing that again from a higher structure into the ark. we had a really productive and planning afternoon.

i also totally forgot how awesome the carvery is at the waterside part of conkers.  honestly, if you fancy a walk in the countryside with a nice coffee and a lovely sunday dinner you should really go and check it out.   having this onsite is one of the many plus points to a location in or nearby the national forest.

i'm currently putting together a proper business case study and altering the media pack before getting together for a meeting and presentation at conkers about my social media journey and how the project could potentially bring in worldwide attention to the centre of the national forest.

she loves ice cream.  what can i say.

Social Media in Action! :)

quicklink | Swadlincote YMCA on Posterous

i recently bought a great sofa and a table from the happy homes in swad. I wanted to do something for them as they were really friendly and hoped me out a lot, both on price and well, you know just because they are really nice people!

I decided that i was going to take my camera to the happy homes in swadlincote and take photos of pretty much everything that they had in the store. Descriptions and updating any problems could be done in the comments and it should be easy for them to put things as SOLD or make things PRIVATE when things have gone. I've used a basic posterous account and theme but i have some wizard ideas using tags about grouping them all together. i'm just doing the data load at the moment.

If they like it and i can roll this out in the burton branch as well i might even give them a bit of training how to post picture themselves! - i left my video camera at the place so i should get that back friday afternoon - will upload that content over the weekend.

Check it out - http://ymcaswad.posterous.com - i'll probably put them all under a custom domain if they like it!

i went out this morning looking to see what furniture the local ymca had for the house as i'm redressing each of the rooms in the view to selling/renting so want something of a reasonable price that i use for a while and eventually leave 'furnished' in the house.  putting up the house for sale is top priority now.

I ended up with the following. ..

a contact for a roofer (yay!) - i need the chimney flashing.
a potential joiner to put the livingark together when i do get one (nice)
notification when a settee, studded chairs & farmhouse tables comes in.
got called an 'eco warrior' AGAIN
found a wood supplier for the logburner at house/livingark 

I like mornings like that.  time to fly out on the bike again.  

P.S - my iphone gps is broken.  gutted.

saw an absolutely mint condition minor 1000 yesterday. we had a brief chat - trust me, he has this insured for a lot of money and it took him 18 months to bring back to this condition.