Peace, Unity and Friendship: Reflections on the Torch Relay
Organic Communities: Reflections on #citizenrelay
#CitizenRelay, @UWSInteractive and students as producers
Hello 2012: CitizenRelay goes live
2011 - Year of the 'Social' (Strategy)
Just in time. As we near the end of 2011, I was asked to submit an article to the online journal Culture@the Olympics, edited by Professor Andy Miah and Dr Beatriz Garcia. In the past, several prominent...
Mixed Reality at Mega Events: Bringing The Games to You?This post originates from roundtable event I was invited to participate in today, hosted at Queen Margaret University by David Finkelstein of QMU (http://www.qmu.ac.uk/mcpa/staffdavidfinkelstein.htm...
Literary Festivals: Exclusive Enclaves or Inclusive Innovators?Along with an ex-colleague, Matt Frew (aka @graffiticloud, http://bit.ly/q19pDr), I've been interested in the increasingly influential experiential element of major sports events (though not exclusively...
Major events and fan experiences: Bringing the Games to you?It's taken me a few days to blog about a Research and Knowledge Exchange event I attended last week at Creative Scotland's swanky Waverley Gate premises in Edinburgh. The title of the event was research...
Impact and Effect: Contested Cultural ValuesHaving participated in a few 'events' relating to social media over the last week or so, I thought it necessary to blog about the status of social media use in HE and how we can learn from what is happening...
Harnessing the power: Social Media in HE and beyond
The process of academic publication: worth it in the end?
Reading a blog post entitled, 'The Olympic Super Brands take over London' by former BBC sports editor Mihir Bose, got me thinking about one of the main arguments in my Event Policy: From Theory to Strategy...
The Olympic Clean CIty: A CritiqueIt's been a while...my self-imposed break from blogging about all things #highered, #socialmedia and #olympics has now come to an end and I have new content to share with you all today.The motivation...
Controlling content: Social Media, HE and the Regulatory Urge
#media2012, Mega Events & New Media: Reflections from Aarhus