Almost 6 months ago now, I started wireframing and mocking up designs for Birmingham Recycled not really knowing what it would lead to. Now 6 months on, the site is going really well and the last couple of days I have been exhibiting the site at the Media Exhibition ‘Blood, Sweat and Media’, where this video was the main attraction at the Birmingham Recycled stand.
Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
Birmingham Recycled Promo
June 13th, 2009JEEcamp: When Journalists get together to discuss entrepreneurship
May 10th, 2009JEEcamp is over and everyone hopefully got something useful out of the day, I know I did. The room was filled with an entrepreneurial spirit and ideas were flying around all day.
Even though the industry looks pretty dull, the general feeling I got, was that people have now realised that there is no point in trying to desperately hold on to your job, but now is the time to look forward. Naturally, this forces people to think of new things rather than trying to fix the old, – exciting I think.
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Live Coverage of JEEcamp
May 8th, 2009During the JEEcamp unconference I was live blogging the event using CoverItLive. The full transcript is still available here. I also did some videos along the way, scroll down and enjoy.
CoverItLive:
Live blogging JEEcamp: The Journalism Enterprise and Entrepreneurship unconference
May 7th, 2009
Tomorrow I will be live blogging from JEEcamp – the Journalism Enterprise and Entrepreneurship unconference. Joining me, will be a team of online journalism students from the Birmingham City University, some of which are also hard working reporters at my little baby; Birmingham Recycled. We will be using a variety of tools including CoverItLive, Qik, Bambuser, Flickr and of course twitter.
Update: Live archive here
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@Documentally’s gadgets: The toolbox of a multimedia journalist
April 28th, 2009Christian Payne, who is probably better known as @Documentally on twitter, 12seconds, blip.tv and all the other social platforms, swung by the journalism class yesterday, – and he brought sweets. Not really, but it was as good as, just a little more expensive.
If you thought portable devices meant that you had to carry a few of them around, think again. As far as I’m concerned, Chris has a completely different take on this. His philosophy seems to be; the smaller they are, the more you can fit into your bag. – And I like it :-)
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