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To celebrate Scotland’s Year of Homecoming in 2009, ITI Scotland (in conjunction with the Edinburgh Science Festival) hosted an authoritative discussion on Scotland’s innovative future. With a panel chaired by BBC Science expert Quentin Cooper, and featuring leading players in Scottish innovation, the debate was opened with a keynote speech by the world-renowned futurist and strategist, Rohit Talwar to outline the latest in innovative global… Continue

Added by George Falconer on May 29, 2009 at 11:56 — No Comments

Another Exciting Company in Scotland

One of an occasional informal posting about the cool things I see every other day.

My job allows me to connect with some of the most exciting and energising people and companies on the planet - and they are right here in Scotland. I recently visited fellow "38 Min -iter" Giles Lamb of Savalas Sound. The company specialises in all aspects of sound production for film, tv and games, and operate from the Film City Glasgow building in Govan - a stones throw from the Ibrox tube… Continue

Added by George Falconer on May 29, 2009 at 11:43 — 4 Comments

Do Scottish cities offer new economic hope?

BBC News today reports on an HSBC forecast which predicts that Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee are set to become the new business hubs of the UK. Nice to hear some positive news about the capital following the collapse of the financial sector!

And what industry will be leading the charge? None other than gaming. See the full story here.

Added by Nicola Sinclair on May 29, 2009 at 11:27 — No Comments

Do you cybersquat?

A recently published article on Brand Republic stated that, as of 27-May-09, 33 of the 40 Britain's Got Talent semi-finalists domain names have been registered (both .com and .co.uk) only about 3 being registered previously by the contestants. Similar story with Twitter accounts, including the infamous Susan Boyle.

There are two forms or reasons why people cybersquat.… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on May 28, 2009 at 17:21 — No Comments

Twitter chatter

Whether it be a fad or not, Twitter is everywhere right now and seems to be picking up, wanted by its users or not, visibility and user numbers. People outside the usual tech savvy, easy UI circle are starting to latch on to the 'latest' communication tool. I have heard it on mentioned on several prime-time television… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on May 27, 2009 at 13:30 — 6 Comments

New National Theatre Wales launches - with online social network

The new National Theatre Wales has just launched with an online presence that is a social network.

My environmental sustainability company, Envirodigital, worked with NTW on their digital strategy, and we recruited Cardiff-based social media developers Native to bring the approach alive. The idea was to produce the new theatre company's audience organically… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on May 26, 2009 at 12:59 — No Comments

Digital Goldfish and 4iP: How much is left of your liver?

Channel 4 is embarking on a groundbreaking project with Digital Goldfish, the Dundee-based developer already behind one of the most successful games recently released on iPhone. This weekend both the Telegraph and Sunday Herald have… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on May 25, 2009 at 11:43 — 7 Comments

SICamp: My favorite submissions

So unless you've been under a rock lately (or not in the Tech scene in Edinburgh), you will know that the Social Innovation Camp is rolling into town.

I've submitted two ideas of my own: GiveKnitting.org and Girls in Tech.

But I've been keeping an eye on the other entries, and wanted… Continue

Added by Kate Ho on May 22, 2009 at 17:00 — 1 Comment

Please ensure that @300miles doesn't come up short:

Marc thanks for your post about the challenges of converting tweets into donations.

This was originally going to be relegated to a comment on yours, but I felt it might be more appropriate if my observations had a separate airing all of it's own.

Garry and Lee…

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Added by Michael Coulter on May 22, 2009 at 12:53 — No Comments

Volunteer Management: How the Moonwalk gets it right

I was driving into Edinburgh today and spotted someone training for the Moonwalk - the lady was the first person this year I saw training for the walk, and prompted me to write this post.

For people that have never heard of the Moonwalk, here's the basic idea: take 10,000 men and women, get them to walk a full marathon (26.2 miles) or the half marathon (13.1 miles) in a brightly decorated bra to raise money for breast cancer. If you… Continue

Added by Kate Ho on May 22, 2009 at 1:30 — No Comments

Converting Tweets into Donations

I've been helping Mike Coulter and Jon Mountjoy strategize and raise money for the intrepid firefighters currently engaged in the 300 miles trek. Sadly, while some 400-odd people are following them on Twitter, and one or two large-scale re-tweets have gone out, their actual donation income has been rather thin. So the question arises: is Twitter an appropriate… Continue

Added by Marc Tanenbaum on May 21, 2009 at 10:30 — 2 Comments

Processing Chunks all done

My Collaboration with the Open University Mass Writing Project has came to an end and I will sorely miss it! I ended up writing 3 chunks and programs for the book, which is about using the Processing IDE, to design graphical sketches as applications and applets.

My contributions were for chunks 16, 46 and 79.

Chunk 16 is a random pattern generator which is used to demonstrate how to program in Java/Processing using fundamental constructs such as arrays, case statements and… Continue

Added by Rosie Wood on May 20, 2009 at 20:00 — No Comments

PICamp is in Belfast on Tuesday 26th May

There are only a few places left for Slugger O'Toole's PICamp in Belfast on the afternoon of (next) Tuesday the 26th May.

Some of the questions that people will be asking:

- Northern Ireland - what would Obama do?

- How citizen photographers and journalists can alter politics ie directly influence politicans and their policies

- Removing the… Continue

Added by Paul Evans on May 20, 2009 at 17:06 — 1 Comment

SICamp Scotland final week for call for ideas

Our call for ideas has been open for the last two months and finishes this Friday, 22nd May - we've had over 60 entries so far and we're really pleased with how it's been gathering momentum.

We've also announced some of our prizes for the weekend, including support from Firstport, alongside two web design and development… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on May 20, 2009 at 14:54 — No Comments

"Users will sign in..." Will They? Identity, Trust and Your Idea

With nearly every idea submitted to 4iP comes the requirement that our future user "will sign up for the service". Having seen the complexity that comes with getting, storing, using and reusing that information, I've found myself on nearly every occasion asking myself (and the startup or indie): "Why?".

The reasons provided boil down to two incredibly loaded words: identity and trust. Identity is seen by the creative or web developer as the means by which they will be able… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on May 20, 2009 at 9:52 — 2 Comments

Podcastmatters - Social Media Podcast

I have just created a new group called the Social Media Podcast which shares the latest news and forthright opinion on what's happening in social media, covering topics like Twitter, blogs, social networks & podcasts. Featuring interviews, opinion & rants from some of the leading names in social media.

Come and join the gropu and feel free to add discussions, comments, feedback etc or contact us if you wish to be in the next… Continue

Added by Kyle Murdoch on May 19, 2009 at 16:30 — No Comments

Spreading the Love - the art of appeal

Spreading the Love: the Art of Appeal!

GGA CONFERENCE 2009

Spreading the Love: the Art of Appeal

• Friday 5 June, 2009

• Venue: Platform, Easterhouse

• 9.30am - 5.30pm

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Speakers announced so far:

• DAVID ARCHIBALD: Lecturer, Department of Film, Media and TV: University of Glasgow

• COLIN BURNS - Director: Martach Associates

• DK – Founding Director, Trainer, Speaker: MediaSnackers

• SHAI EILON - CRM… Continue

Added by Nina Honeyman on May 19, 2009 at 15:57 — No Comments

THINK BIG NOW

Forget the media and the doomsayers, we live in exciting times and there are countless opportunities to do things differently, better and more economically.

This is a time for fresh ideas and new beginnings. Those who grasp them will prosper. Innovation must be constant because the world around us constantly innovates

For me, owning a small business that did well in the good times was never going to be a passport to recession survival. Business does not receive loyalty points or… Continue

Added by Mike Stevenson on May 19, 2009 at 15:00 — No Comments

Putting social media to the test (putting 38 Minutes to the test)

I've been invited to talk to a bunch of advertising folk about "Social Media". Nothing like a narrow, focussed brief to get the creative juices flowing eh?

I'm on at 4.30 on a Friday afternoon so the aim is to be entertaining and informative in equal measure.

I also know for a fact that there endures an abiding sense in large sections of the advertising community that "you still can't beat a great ad".

I'm… Continue

Added by Phil Adams on May 19, 2009 at 9:29 — 2 Comments

A Refresher in the Core Principles and Value of Brainstorming

I've delivered a number of creative thinking workshops recently and when we look at brainstorming ideas, most people quite happily claim to be fully familiar with the process and frown at my dumb question of checking if they are aware of the actual process of brainstorming. It's at this point, I sometimes refer to my faithful old tried and trusted handout based on the fantastically simple work of Alex Osborne. Given the current climate of the absolute… Continue

Added by Alec McPhedran on May 14, 2009 at 17:15 — 2 Comments

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