Archive for the ‘digitalcircle’ Category

Create or Facilitate

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Ian Graham of TheCodeFactory.ca writes about whether we CREATE or FACILITATE communities: Create is in fact a very strong word and implies that you make something from nothing. If you read the bible you will recall the story of creation. In seven days God created the earth, man and all of ...

Make Corporate Butts Pucker

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I wrote: A year ago Rich Segal wrote an article on how to make a corporate butt pucker. As we inch closer to opening the CoWorking site in Belfast, I find myself having loftier dreams regarding it. I envisage a place where we can assist startups and if necessary turn a ...

A quick startup formula

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Today I spoke to two guys in Belfast Metropolitan College. The subject line was regarding 'placements' for their students in Interactive Media and Software Engineering. Placements for media students tend to be easier than for software engineering students. Reason being that in my experience you can set a creative person down ...

Thinking about TV

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

I'm not a fan of TV. Not at all. I do like movies. And I like series that are aired on television which I can hoard and watch in multi-hour segments. It seems odd therefore that we (the royal 'we') are coming to Channel 4 and putting our ideas in ...

I’m going to OpenTurkey, mnahhhhh!

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

And I'm only in 8th place!!!!! Andy McMillan Dave Rice Davy Mac Simon McCartney Jackie Pollock Steve Wilkin Stuart Gibson Matt Johnston David Braziel [UPDATED!!!] Here's the Belfast Open Coffee Club thread. Join up.

More on Co-Working

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Andy and I viewed a great location today for Co-Working. We'll likely post photos over the next day or so but right now we're wanting to know who will be interested in taking a space. It really is time to put your chips on the table. I've also posted a ...

Coming soon: Black Box Horror Film Club

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Also this week at the Black Box, is the Pre-Symposium Event for ISEA2009.

Digital Circle - get involved!

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

I've written a lot of content about the Digital Circle this morning, mostly in the area of upcoming events , sources of funding and I'd like to invite people who read my blog, who are also involved in the Digital Content sector in Northern Ireland, to register here. It would also ...

Design Week Events

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

The Creative Entrepreneurs Club is delighted to invite everyone to two events being held as part of Design Week. Title: Design Week Events Location: Belfast Link out: Click here Start Date: 2008-11-03 End Date: 2008-11-08 DIGITAL FUTURES @ 6 pm, Wednesday 5th November Speakers: Jane Fielder, Creative Director for Red Bee Media Nicolas Roope, Creative Director, Poke Two of the industry's ...

Moving ideas to implementation and beyond…

Monday, October 13th, 2008

I've just penned a long post over at the DigitalCircle blog about taking ideas to the next stage. I've covered this before here and here. The post is focussing on some of the initiatives which are out there in the province for doing just that. Again, I'd mentioned this before here ...