Archives for the ‘Community’ Category

The Authentic Community

By Rosie Sherry • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: Community

You’ve gotta love Ning for giving power to the people to set up niche communities. Libby, of Authentic Blogging, is well into using the power of blogging for learning, collaboration and expression. Recently, apart from studying for a Masters Degree and being a super-mum, she’s been running blogging and writing classes.
The natural evolution [...]



Discover Hidden Treasure(s)!

By Leif Kendall • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Business, Community

Hidden treasures like buildings of historic interest, museums, art galleries and the like.
 
Now you can let your mobile phone be your tour guide with Simon Willison’s new application, Wikinear.
 
A mash-up of several other applications (OAuth, Fire Eagle, GeoNames and the new Google Static Maps API), Wikinear utilises your phone’s GPS system to bring you the [...]



Brighton User Experience Group

By Rosie Sherry • Mar 27th, 2008 • Category: Community

Brighton is choc-a-bloc with small design and web agencies and some of them are actually really good (if not leaders) in their fields. Jenni Lloyd has made the first step in gathering interest around creating a Brighton based User Experience Group.
Make sure your voice is heard by getting in touch with Jenni or making [...]



This is Rebecca’s story

By Rosie Sherry • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Community

Rebecca moved down to Brighton late last year. Six months later she believes she made the right decision and definitely thinks that Brighton Rocks.



Social Compost - Liberate Your Peelings

By Rosie Sherry • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: Community

There’s no doubt that the environmental impact we are having on the world is a concern. Whilst many of us really do want to create change, reality makes hard to actually do something significant about it. The good news is that the web is increasingly becoming the platform to help make the change.
Social [...]



Flash Brighton - Framework Development event

By Rosie Sherry • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Community, Events

Ever wondered what Frameworks are? Interested in developing and learning about Flash? You may want to find more about the Framework Development presentation.
Presented by Chris Korhonen and Neil Manuell, the first half of the evening will talk about concepts behind frameworks and core design products such as MVC. You will find out [...]



Brighton Girl Geek Dinner are looking for sponsor(s)

By Rosie Sherry • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Community

The planning for the next Brighton Girl Geek Dinner is underway and sponsors are needed.
The next dinner will be in March and feature la fabulosa Relly Annett-Baker. The talk will be on the topic of copy writing. Relly will also be one of the speakers at Singularity - a great opportunity for her to perfect [...]



Singularity - the web conference coming to a place near you

By Rosie Sherry • Feb 11th, 2008 • Category: Business, Community, Events

Singularity is a large scale 3 day online web conference.  It will feature over 100 of the worlds leading web visionaries, designers, developers, celebrities and thought leaders.  There will be choices to watch sessions live from the comfort of your own home, at a local event or view the recordings in your own time. It [...]



The ‘Geek Wine Thing’

By Rosie Sherry • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Community, Events

There are a few geeky events going on, many of which assume an interest in technology.  The Geek Wine Thing is slightly different from the norm. Whilst it is targeted at the geeks, the only thing geeky about it are the geeks that turn up.  There are plenty of non geeky things that happen during [...]



Brighton Node101 - first event

By Rosie Sherry • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Community, Events

Node101 is a community driven ‘open source’ style project to share video blogging (vlogging) skills.  It is open to everyone regardless of their technical capability.  The idea of ’skillshare’ means that most people will be able to contribute to the conversation.
The first event, Learn to video blog,  is scheduled for Monday 25th of February between [...]