David Wilcox
The great ice-cream sales experiment
Rob and Lea from David Wilcox on Vimeo.
Rob Hinchcliffe of Qype.com and Lea Simpson of unchainedguide.com are passionate about promoting excellent local businesses, and believe this can be done by using digital media to influence people’s consumer habits.
At 2gether08 they carried out a mini social experiment by setting up ice cream stalls at the event. [...]
2gether08 - undampened, still buzzing
We may have finished 2gether08 in the wet, but there is plenty of enthusiasm for keeping the conversation going as you can see from the Twitter feed, and some blog items. This is an update of an earlier post. On our networking site Maz Hardey says:
The best 2.0 event i have been to. And [...]
Involve aims to engage millions
At 2gether08 I met up with my friend Richard Wilson, who runs the excellent participation think tank Involve. They are definitely thinking big in using new media to scale up the scope for citizen engagement. I shot this brief interview, and then asked Richard to send me some further thoughts.
BBC adds more support for Simon’s Coca Cola Campaign
Simon Berry got a double boost at 2gether08 last week for his campaign to get Coca Cola to use their sophisticated distribution channels for rehydration salts to save children’s lives. Currently 5500 children die each day in Africa from diarrohea.
Speed(ed) networking in the Common Room
2gether day 1 - in the main tent from Dan Dixon on Vimeo.
The best place to hang out during 2gether08 was the marquee (aka Common Room), where Ed Mitchell and Dan Dixon added a little networking zest with a Live Tag Surfing wall on the first day, and an invitation to muse on what’s the [...]
UK Catalyst Awards shortlist
The shortlist for the UK Catalyst Awards was announced yesterday at 2gether08, and you can find it here. Dan Mcquillan described the awards earlier:
What happens when social need collides head on with the social web? How are widespread and easy-to-use technologies being used to benefit communities?
The UK Catalyst Awards are a bold experiment to answer [...]
New Statesman New Media Awards ceremony
2gether08 hosted the presentation ceremony for the 10th New Statesman New Media Awards and, thanks to the video setup that we had for feeds to other rooms and webcasting, were able to get a top-quality recording.
Here you’ll see New Statesman publisher Spencer Neal making the introductions, Channel 4’s technology correspondent Ben Cohen making the presentations, [...]
Can we communik8?
Bold Creative came to 2gether08 with the aim of using video to bridge one gap of understanding: between young people and older people, as Creative Director Greg Villalobos explained in this earlier interview.
How Richard provided the webcasts
Richard Jolly from David Wilcox on Vimeo.
One of the great communication successes at 2gether08 has been our ability to webcast main sessions to people interested but unable to be here. That’s down to Richard Jolly, who joined us from Northern Ireland at very short notice, bringing his kit in a few large suitcases. [...]
Borrowing Ben from Channel 4 to interview Umair
Umair Haque - who I wrote about earlier - ran a session at 2gether08 today about the need for a different, less destructive capitalism. I was just lining up an interview when Ben Cohen, technology correspondent for Channel 4 News came over, so I asked a TV professional to ask the questions.
It led to some [...]
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