As of 1st May I’m taking up the role of Director of Communications and Audience Services at one of our most vibrant regional theatres, the Mercury Theatre in Colchester. My time there could not have got off to a more exciting start. Last night was opening night for The Hired Man, and the Colchester debut… Read more »
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So hello Vine, Twitter’s new video service. Say, haven’t we met before?
Vine, the new six-second video service promoted by Twitter, is causing a buzz across the socialmediasphere. What has it got that its predecessors lacked? Bear with me here. There have been many attempts to update Jerome McCarthy’s ‘Four Ps’ of marketing – product, price, promotion and place. The Seven C’s compass model is a particular favourite,… Read more »
Creating your own community – slide deck
Here’s a slimmed-down version of my presentation to the UK Association Congress, on forming your own Facebook, tweating your own Twitter, creating your own community. Creating your own community from rfenwick
Will no-one free us of these troublesome ghosts?
One of the truly great things about British politics is the depth and breadth of raw talent which can be found at every level of every party and no party. Unfortunately, tired conventions of political discourse are preventing some of that talent from shining through. One symptom of that fact is that political debate is,… Read more »
The Incredible Lord Credo
Last weekend the Twitter user Lord Credo, the self-proclaimed Westminster insider, former Downing Street press officer, even right-hand man to David Cameron, deleted his Twitter account. So far, so dull. The creator of the account had been outed as an imposter by Suffolk blogger Peter Ede in this blog post. Credo also stood accused of theft,… Read more »
Telling a story from the other side of the world with Storify
We hold a huge, global, annual competition each year at CIMA called the Global Business Challenge. There are several rounds of the competition, culminating in country finals, and then the global final. A lot of social content is created in a short period of time. This year’s global final is in Chengdu, China. Our team… Read more »
Putting Croydon Minster on the web
Croydon Minster are a lovely community, and it’s always fun to work with those who are passionate about the organisation they belong to and support, so I was pleased to launch croydonminster.org with their support earlier this month. Video I particularly enjoyed filming the two-hour long Minster Making service, though condensing it down to a… Read more »
Installing MySource Matrix on Amazon EC2
This is a rough but hopefully comprehensive guide to getting the enterprise open source Content Management System Mysource Matrix up and running on an Amazon EC2 Cloud virtual computer instance. The bulk of this guide consists of a list of commands to be executed in order. Comments appear in red. It may turn out that… Read more »
What #Trafigura can teach political parties and others
It comes round so regularly you could set an incredibly slow clock by it – the question “will the next election be the Internet election?” It’s impossible to answer that question without first defining what an “Internet election” is. Traditionally to my mind there have been two possible definitions: An election where a stasticically significant… Read more »
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