Lifecasting
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Reading
With life being a little less busy and enjoying the imaginary Meditteranean project, I’m getting more time to read. Project Med inspired me to engage with authors I might otherwise not know. At the same time, I am reading books I probably would usually reach for.
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branding, Creative, Lifecasting, Social Media, Social Media, Tech Business
“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 potentially global audience. I […]
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Archive, Journalism, Lifecasting, Personal
Phone numbers from 1989 for Nelson Mandella and Vaclav Havel
Way back in time, we used to keep numbers on cards in cardboard boxes. I was working in current affairs at a really interesting time; fall of communist governments in […]
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Paris has changed!
Paris has changed. Not for the better. Not for the worse. Just different. For example, I was standing outside Telegraphe Metro trying to match the Google Map print out to […]
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Belfast, Lifecasting, Personal
Davy’s on the road again – again
I’m about to get busy, again. Today and tomorrow producing a live webcast from the Confidence in Policing conference at Titanic Belfast for Northern Ireland Policing Board. Then to Paris […]
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istanbul, Journalism, Lifecasting, Social Media, Travel
Using Traditional and New Media For Campaigns Against Prejudice, Xenophobia and Discrimination
The December meeting of the Grundvig group was held in Cezayir Istanbul. These are some of the social media links to resources and work of some of the people and […]
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Holywood, istanbul, Lifecasting, Ljubljana, Personal, Travel
Top 12 Moments 2013
I started trying to highlight 10 moments through the year but it was difficult enough to keep it down to 12.
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hotel, istanbul, Lifecasting, Personal, Travel
Tulip City Hotel, Istanbul
Review in Trip Advisor I was on business and attending meetings nearby. One of the reasons I chose Tulip City was that it was recommended by colleagues in Istanbul and […]
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airlines, airports, Lifecasting, Travel
How travel has changed in under two decades
I have travelled a lot since the mid 1990s. This week I was in Istanbul for the first time since 1996 and I began to think about how travel has […]
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Creative, Lifecasting, Social Media, Twitter
Tips for live tweeting
1 – Prepare, prepare, prepare There are several things you should do beforehand I. Who do you expect your audience to be – always be aware of the audience. II. […]
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Cape Town, Creative, Lifecasting, Media Kidocracy Konference, Mkk, Personal, Social Media, Travel, WIMPS
Gumboot Dance – the Media Kidocracy Konference talent night winners
While working in South Africa at the beginning of December 2012 at the Media Kidocracy Konference organised by Bush Radio, the organisers held a talent night for the young people […]
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Lifecasting, Personal, Social Media, Travel, WIMPS
Video report from MKK South Africa
WIMPS – Karen reports from the Media Kidocracy Konference in South Africa from wimps.tv on Vimeo.
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Creative, Journalism, Lifecasting, Social Media, Travel
Teaching Blogging in South Africa
Here are the numbers. As I write, Lake Malawe is, at a guess, fifty to one hundred miles to the west. I’m 35,000 feet above ground travelling at 568 miles […]
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facebook, Journalism, Lifecasting, privacy, Social Media, Tech Business
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 enough to 1 billion people. […]
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Creative, Journalism, Lifecasting, Personal, Slugger O'Toole, Social Media
Digital Lunch: Belfast2020
Mick Fealty (editor founder and driving force behind Slugger O’Toole) organises weekly Digital Lunches on Google Hangout. Mick has kindly invited me to take part in several. This is todays. […]
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Creative, Lifecasting, Personal, Radio, Radio 4
That was then … this isn’t
Yesterday on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, there was an interview with someone in Syria “on the internet”. In other words on Skype (or similar). No big deal. Not […]
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facebook, google, Lifecasting, Personal, Social Media, Tech Business
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 technology that may have been […]
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Creative, Lifecasting, Personal, Social Media
How we speak in Crossmaglen
I was doing a session with the Driving Change group from Crossmaglen. Fantastic group, but first we had to get over the language problem. Apologies for the my shaky camera […]
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That was one brilliant week
We were told a few weeks ago that Public Achievement – the charity I work for – was going to be given a Big Society Award from the Prime Minister […]
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Creative, Journalism, Lifecasting, News, Personal
Focus Matters
My new year’s resolution. That is all.
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The Facebook Diet – how to loose ‘friends’ and be influenced by people
With 938 ‘Friends’ on Facebook, I have decided that this is a richness that I no longer need. In the end it was one post by one person that made […]
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The Week in WIMPS
Film maker Marc Mulholland joined the team. He’ll train Crew and Staff to make video better and help drive up our production standards – welcome Marc. Debs A WIMPS Youth Worker […]
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Journalism, Lifecasting, Social Media, WIMPS
The Week in WIMPS – Week Beginnging 14 February 2011
Interviews with Political Leaders, choosing a design company to build our new web site and live streaming the first political party hustings – just part of this week at WIMPS. […]
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Creative, Journalism, Lifecasting, privacy
Social Media is the first draft of biography
“Journalism is the first draft of history,” is attributed to Philip Graham, a former co-owner of The Washington Post. “If journalism is the first draft of history, live blogging is […]
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BBC, Creative, Creative Industries, Digital Circle, Digital Content, Lifecasting
Breakfast with BBC Trust
This was published this morning on my Digital Circle Ning blog which is only available to members. Every so often the full membership of the BBC Trust meets in Belfast. […]
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Holywood, Lifecasting, Restaurants
You’ll never go hungry in Holywood
Cafe Nero opened today in Holywood. That means there are at least 12 coffee/snack places plus carry-outs and restaurants. From memory, here's a list starting at the top (Belfast end) […]
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There is something about September.
I don’t write about politics. Over the last few weeks UK politicians have been pulling themselves to pieces over their nasty petty ego driven politics which has (deliberately?) over shadowed […]
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Ten Rules for Success
At the Northern Ireland Media Literacy Network event one of the books Paul Moore mentioned was Creative Industries by John Huntley. Paul passed around a few pages for the book which […]
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NISP Event Wednesday 4 March
If you can’t get to the NISP event <https://www.davysims.com/2009/02/24/nisp-the-next-big-thing> there will be a live stream – and I expect it will be available for download later. The live stream will be […]