The other day I was discussing social reporting and other online activities for a £300-ticket, two-day event with the organiser, and he said: “Next year we are going to have to make it free&#. So on the one hand it is more difficult to charge for the logistics, and on the other hand it is less easy to keep the content within the event. MORE >>

Just like salesmen who like being sold to, as an event designer, I love going to a good gig. Balloon at NEF event. Well that was a good rant, but probably a rather poor and waffly event report. But I’ve found myself telling people about the great event so many times that I thought I better write it down. MORE >>

Detail :  The concept overall is compelling – activity streams allow applications to publish events that are captured by aggregators that serialize the items into a sequence of posts (listed in reverse chronological order, newest entry first). You might be limited to events over a small time period, or just to a certain number of entries. MORE >>

There are scores of events about Big Society in prospect around the country, as you can see from the admirable calendar started by Paul Webster on the Big Society in the North forum ( my earlier BS posts here ). It requires the sort of analysis provided by the event in Bristol. That’s certainly peak oil, and climate change. MORE >>

As mentioned in previous blog posts, here I am, once again, putting together this particular series of articles detailing some of the various highlights from the recent Social Business Forum event held in Milan, Italy, on June 8th, that I attended and presented at. Forget about big, impersonal, mass media driven events. At all. Right?), MORE >>