The Intangible Value of Place

By Paul

The projected draconian cutbacks in UK Public Sector spending will have a dramatic impact on how the State and its operating partners will address the ongoing need for the regeneration of towns and cities throughout the land. Nowhere will the effects be more felt than the less well-off areas of the UK. And yet places in the North East and North West, Wales and Scotland are still trying to find a new identity born out of the deindustrialisation of the Read More...

5 Jun 2010

Social media and the General Election UK 2010

By Caroline

There is so much I could talk about on the topic of social media use in this years General Election campaigns, but as there has been so much coverage on this topic online and offline I am keeping this entry short and sweet. 2010 is the first year that social media has been used in a General Election in the UK, we all saw how effective it was in 2008/2009 for Obama’s campaign in the States, but will it be Read More...

29 Apr 2010

Lonely Planet – from ashes to good thinking!

By Rune

The Icelandic ash cloud provoked many creative reactions – for example, I had a good laugh when I stumbled upon the facebook group named “Don’t mess with Iceland, they’ll shut your airports down”. But without a doubt Lonely Planet fostered the best idea in response to the cloud that I have come across. They decided to offer iPhone users free downloads of city guides to affected cities around Europe for a limited period. This quickly proved highly popular and the Read More...

27 Apr 2010

Social learning

By Caroline

What comes to your mind when you think about social learning? Chatting with friends, colleagues and peers? It seems that social media technologies are the new tools being used for informal e learning. Now that social media and social networking has become so popular and easily accessible, it seems that ‘social learning’ is the natural progression of informal e learning and both the e learning industry and advertising and marketing industry are recognizing this and are utilizing social media. There Read More...

23 Apr 2010
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