Socialreporter

A round of social reporting at conferences and other events leaves me with a simple classification for the content I may capture or create: there’s Stuff, Conversations, and Stories.
Stuff is Powerpoints, papers, speeches. It is delivered, usually from a platform, by Important People.
Conversations are what happens in the breaks between Stuff, or in small groups [...]

One in five children in developing countries die before they are five from simple causes like dehydration. My friend Simon Berry believes he has an idea that could help, as we discussed when we met yesterday to talk about the 2gether08 Festival (more below on that)
Twenty years ago Simon Berry was a development worker in [...]

I’m constantly amazed at how creative people can be in a small group given a clear task, a framework and a few props. Today I went along to the conference of the Institute of Fundraising Technology Group to run a session on social media. The organisers were happy when I proposed a game session [...]

This weekend I’m at the Shine Unconference in London - blogging, shooting some video, and generally having a great time in conversation with social entrepreneurs and every type of innovator you might hope to meet. The photo show Alberto Nardelli explaining the UnltdWorld social network, and you can see it is a wonderfully informal environment [...]

One of my ideas for social reporting is to add some buzz to events by videoblogging and other ways of amplifying conversations - so it was great to get a job from the organiser of the National Digital Inclusion Conference to do just that. I was terrifically grateful that Dave Briggs could join me, because [...]