About

 

 

I’m a community consultant, media trainer and journalist working on projects which are about helping to connect people, online and off.

As managing director of Talk About Local I come into contact with numerous communities looking to find their online voice while my role as community strategist for the Guardian Media Group means I am helping develop the sort of tools which the fast changing world of online publishing requires. Most recent launch in this area is wwwn0tice.com, a solomo platform for sharing news, events listings and offers.

I’m a regular contributor to The Guardian’s  Northerner blog with a particular interest in regional news, media matters, social media and the ongoing development of the north’s media hub at MediaCityUk in Salford.

This is my primary personal blog which is about all of the above, networked journalism, a bit of technology, open data subjects such as;

• The evolution of journalism.
• Enabling participation through networked communities.
• The institutional impact of all the above – be it newspapers, politics, museums, the military or whatever.

And finally,

• Sharing knowledge in these areas, on and off-line, whether through formal teaching of students, speaking at events, training print journalists, blogging, or getting involved in networking groups.

I am based in the north of England but regularly travel around the UK, meeting, tweeting, blogging and otherwise seeking.

See the right hand side of this blog for details of my other blogging activity, professional background, contacts etc.