Just pootling

Just pootling

Just a very quick post mainly to get me back in the mood for posting more often and so to remind me how - that's a bit of a lie as I post nearly every day just not here but i digress.  I am going to try and get back in the mood to revitalise this site. So it has gone...

I published an article

I published an article

So I published an article - It's has been awhile which is probably why i am writing this blog post about it as it has been over two years since i published a bit of fair game tech news on here. I'm not exactly sure why i left it so long to publish the article - it...

Like Lydia says

I should not avoid my blog.... I was actually looking for a picture of Lydia for this site and came across this from a couple of years ago. It's a recording from a business webinar from the International Association of Virtual Assistants. "Lydia Bates of What She Said...

Joomla Developer Liverpool

If you haven't seen it yet then do check out Joomla.comnJoomla have launched a brand new service in collaboration with Siteground that is going to see it going head to head against WordPress.com - For the unfamiliar, WordPress.com is different from the self hosted...

Fabulous famelab

 A bit of a late post but a post all the same as I came across the images from FameLab.nI'd volunteered my time to be on the judging panel at the Liverpool heat of FAMELab UK, the national science and engineering communications competition. n n n nn n"Previous winners...

Merry Christmas from all at Defnet

n nMerry Christmas from everyone at Defnet.  nHere at Defnet Towers, we breaking out the mince pies and warming up the mulled wine, so we thought we would take a moment to say "Thank you all for your support throughout the year". nWe're really looking forward to 2016...

My Learning curve is up the spout

Alright don't moan too much about my lack of blogging on here - I have a lot of things to do and a lot of other places to blog but never fear I am still as cynical as ever.</p]]> I didn't check the last time I posted but I bet it is months ago - as it should be...

Liverpool digital events – feel free to share

I've been in the habit of creating these presentation over the past few years and using them at Jelly Liverpool, Social Media cafe and Ignite Liverpool. This is the latest edition and if some of the event have gone already then at least they will be back around at...

Innovate UK event February at Baltic Creative

I was lucky enough to make it down to the Innovate UK event last week at Baltic Creative, the creative hub of Liverpool where loads of app makers, designers and generla web developers have offices. I was there for the Innovate UK event which was a networking session...

Digital Skills Development workshops in Liverpool

We've been asked many times before "When are you running your next (insert random digital workshop name) workshop?" and the answer has always been soon...... but from circulating our Join the Mailing List link where people can sign up to find out more, well there is...

Good to see #smc_mcr is heading back

Good to see Social media Cafe Manchester is returning or is it #smc_mcr or is it Common Ground. A name change is always good but especially when it's got Social Media in the title, I know Social Media cafe Liverpool has always struggled with the title as it can be...

Digital Utopias – from Google and Arts Council

I wasn't able to make it to the recent Arts Council event Digital Utopias in Hull, a one-day conference, which said it would inspire and incite debate about how new technologies are enabling creativity across the arts. Sadly I was away in Bristol teaching and I...

It’s all about events

I received a lovely email from Eventbrite the other day telling me about what I was up to last year...events wise. So here is a quick update from them about the events that I've organised over the last year. nSo I've organised 19 events that 719 people attended (nice)...

Stuff done and stuff to do – knowledge is power

This is a bit of a round up of what we have been doing and what we are planning on doing over the next 12 months. nSo over the last year we've been running almost weekly workshops for new businesses looking to set up their digital presence, across the North West, for...

It would be a lie to say we hadn’t been up to much

You may tyhink of us as sitting back here not doing anything, but you woudl be wrong. We have been really busy building websites for other people and over the summer we have trained about 200 new business in how to build their own wordpresss sites.n nThe cobblers son...

Drag Net – Liverpool’s digital bloom

I was asked a couple of months ago to write a round up of the digital sector for a local free magazine that I've written for before. Admittedly not the most popular magazine in the world but I still gave it a go especially as I hope it will attract some new blood into...

The promise

nThe Promise, 19|07|14 – 9|11|14 Arnolfini, Bristol.nMy second post of the day on Living cities consists of this piece from The Promise a show at the Arnolfini is Bristol. I stumbled into the show the other day and this piece from Warren and Mosley really amused me so...

CloudMaker’ing my day

nYep sorry for the pun but i've just spent the past few hours at the CloudMaker show at Fact Liveprool. nI should have spent spent some time interviewing people especially the artists that were there namely Ross Dalziel - who was happily celebrating his birthday today...

Art in Liverpool FM

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It’s my own personal history project stretching back to 2007 – with hundreds of recorded interviews, podcasts and plays. This section of the site is pretty old so don’t expect it to work all the time and ignore it asking for Real Player to be loaded. 

So Listener beware!!! 

Take you pick from a selection of Liverpool audio guides, its musical history, heritage tours, slavery remembrance tours, and Visit England’s official guide.