Women in Tech
In this edition, women who work in tech, three leaders who were involved with the Women Techmakers summit which was held in Belfast last weekend. ...
Maxine Mawhinney’s “The Moment” and Gareth Quinn of Digital DNA
Innovations and new ventures in this episode of the podcast (with the really clever name). From TV to YouTube and celebrating collaboration with Digital DNA...
Funding creativity – from guitar strings to global exports
How do you fund creativity? If you are planning to make a business from your passion? Creativity and innovation needs support, funding and professional advice....
Podcast: Episode 4 – Technology bringing real people together in real spaces
We have two interviews. Victoria McCallum is one of the organisers of Women Techmakers Belfast - the event is to be held on 14 April...
Generation Innovation’s Night of Ambition – Podcast
This is Generation Innovation Night of Ambition. The annual event has become important not just for schools who nominate pupils as participants, it is a...
Pilot Podcast – Martin Gilchrist
My first interviewee for this podcast series is Martin Gilchrist. We met in The MAC in Belfast. The MAC is a popular and accessible...
How to own an audience – From WIRED magazine
From: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/10/how-to/how-to-own-an-audience CONNECT WITH YOUR AUDIENCE HAVE A CONVERSATION KEEP IT CLEAR DON’T BE AFRAID TO PAUSE MOVE FOR A REASON USE YOUR HANDS KEEP...
Create2014 Conference and KickStarter
I am very proud to have been invited to speak at Create2014 in Derry~Londonderry September 17 as part of CultureTECH week. With in 24 hours...
“A hashtag is not a branding exercise.”
What is a hashtag for? I was sitting with an important client. We were talking about the hashtag to be used at an event with...
A lesson in Marketing and Communications
Allison Johnson was Apple VP of Worldwide Marketing Communication from 2005 to 2011. Interviewed by Behance CEO Scott Belskey, she talks about the difference between...
Net Neutrality
Unexpectedly, I was asked by someone in Washington D.C. about my views on Net Neutrality. Not something I have given a lot of thought to...
Managing Creativity – Ira Glass on Creativity
This video is taken from: Ira Glass on the Secret of Success in Creative Work, Animated in Kinetic Typography...
Social Media For Business – some talking points
Over the weekend I was asked by the Belfast Telegraph to do an interview about how businesses in Northern Ireland do social media. Grateful for...
Girls at risk Hack – request for ideas
I got a request from friends in Freeformers.com. They are doing a tech-jam next Tuesday building an app for girls and women in abusive relationships....
It’s not the changing technology
It’s not the changing technology that matters most, it’s what the technology is changing....
Facebook is free – and Facebook is expensive
We all love Facebook – especially when we get to hate it. The most widely used and popular social media platform is used by close...
Nutrition for mind and a nice lunch
Forget about the Christmas rush. Get mind food and inspiration from some outstanding women at TEDxBelfastWomen in the fantastic new Skainos building in east Belfast, TEDxBelfastWomen...
Berlin Tech Hub
No, I’ve not been there, but Peter Day from BBC World Service showed me around at 4.30 this morning. (Listen here.) If you have not...
String theory and the decade of anniversaries
This is a longer blog post that I would even read – let alone write. So here is the headline. The past is important we...
Crisis of Leadership
I think we are facing a crisis of leadership in Northern Ireland. Here’s my (unfinished) thinking. I once went on a two day course on...
In praise of an app
Now there is a title I had never expected to write. I am occasionally an early adopter – particularly free stuff. Less so with expensive hardware or...
Zen and the art of logging off
A report in the New York Times this week says that the some of the masters of Silicon Valley are now thinking about potential addiction to...
Titanic Ideas at TEDxBelfast
Working together even in small ways can create great things. That was one of the themes that emerged from TEDxBelfast held in Titanic Belfast on...
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Let’s not build the next Facebook
Here’s an idea. Let’s not build the next Facebook in Northern Ireland. Let’s not even use that phrase as shorthand to explain our tech/web/media ambitions....
MP3 or not MP3 that is the question
Cheesy headline – sorry. So, MP3 music files are more convenient. More convenient for the user – easily available online through music distributors such as iTunes...
Why did Wikipedia go ‘dark’?
(Written for WIMPS.tv) They are protesting about a law being debated in the US congress to outlaw internet piracy. Wikipedia is only one of many...
Changing language in Social Media
Over the last few months I have been using a new set of words to tag my bookmarks on Delicious. The words I have been...
The iPhone Is Absolutely Slaughtering The Blackberry
Earlier this year I carried out some scientifically dubious, yet pleasingly interesting research about Blackberry handsets (particularly Curve) and young people. From the information gathered,...
“Copy-cat Riots” – isn’t it time traditional media took some responsibility?
Facile journalism drives me nuts. The search for blame in the recent riots in England has been predictable in the traditional media. Within hours lazy...