Profilactic Mashup - daveharte

Birmingham Post: Birmingham - The Uncreative City?

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:13:08 GMT

After writing a couple of months ago about Creative Republic I thought it about time I went along to an event. So last night I showed up at the Michael Wolff Masterclass in the so-new-the-paint's-still-wet Fazeley Studios in Digbeth. Wolff himself had to pull out at the last minute which was a shame but in his place we had Stef Lewandowski taking us through a presentation he entitled 'Birmingham Ambient Creativity Audit'.

Media Enterprise: online networks

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:40:33 GMT

In preparation for the focus groups today I have been assessing the existing online services and networks for the students and alumni of the MA Media Enterprise course. First of all, there is Moodle, the electronic learning resource. On this site students can find out all sorts of information about their course as tutors post lecture [...]

Media Enterprise: focus groups

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:52:07 GMT

“Focus groups provide a unique and interactive way to gather information and share views on any number of subjects” says Focus Group UK. This is the method with which I intend to obtain the students’ views on the alumni network idea. Its advantages are that it promotes discussion and gives a combination of opinions and angles [...]

Media Enterprise: alumni network project

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:24:35 GMT

Hello all, I am embarking on a research project to investigate and explore ideas around the proposed idea of a web-based network for the students and alumni of the MA Media Enterprise course at BCU. It is of vital importance that I gain the views of past and present students for this, as it is to be a student-led [...]

Birmingham Post: Birmingham Creatives - I can't hear you

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:58:28 GMT

Actually I can hear some of you, particularly those of you that are on the same social networks as me or that I happen upon as result of my work. I can hear you loud and clear and you've got lots to say about this city and how it values or doesn't value the arts and why what you do matters. What I can't hear is the voice of the organisation that's been set up to represent you collectively. Or to put it another way: what's the point of Creative Republic? If they're the voice of the creative sector aiming to make it "stronger, louder and more effective" then why does it all seem a bit quiet out there.

Birmingham Post: Social Media's hidden legacy

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:00:57 GMT

Two things trouble me about social media. The first is that everyone I read or connect to via Twitter or Facebook or whatever, seems to be having a much more exciting life than me. It's a world of gallery openings, launches, great nights out or simply wonderful sunny, lazy days untroubled by personal dramas or upheavals.

Not that I'm jealous of course. Well actually of course it's because I'm jealous. I even get invited to some of the same events that my friends and colleagues go to I just never seem to get round to going to them - either through a lack of willing babysitters or, more likely, a general acceptance that I'm a long way from being renaissance man. A beer and night in front of the telly are usually all the cultural activity I can muster after a day at work.