Fordie’s blog

Events & Community

  • This time I think it might work

    I’ve just launched something that I have been wanting for a very, very long time. I had my first attempt at it back in 2019, even announcing it on this blog. Last time it didn’t go anywhere… this time I have high hopes. I’m an accidental community founder. I never particularly planned for it, but… Read note →

  • Connecting digital communities

    For the past 11 years I have run events in Worthing for what you could loosely call the digital community. Many other people have helped along the way, but for the past couple of years it’s been John and I running WorthingDigital. WorthingDigital has grown to a meetup.com group with 528 members. This growth is down to… Read note →

  • Don’t underestimate the power of the crowd

    Companies today are climbing over each other to harness the power of social networks, to reach a wider audience and ultimately get more sales. Get it right and the public will love you. Get it Wrong and you’d better be prepared for some pain They forecast snow but it looks like hfail. Just over a… Read note →

  • CB > FB?

    Sometimes I feel a bit jealous of teenagers today. They have all this cool online social networking stuff that I would have loved to had access to when I was their age, but this evening while deflating the paddling pool (I know, rock & roll eh?) it dawned on me… I was using a social… Read note →

  • Breaking news, different people like different things!

    Bobbie Johnson has article in the Guardian today about twitter. Nothing remarkable about that, Johnson is after all one of the Graun’s Tech Journalists. What is remarkable is the number of comments moaning and bitching about the coverage that the Guardian gives to twitter. It’s true that they have given it quite a lot of… Read note →

  • Looking forward to d.construct

    It’s only just over a week away now. d.construct is the only conference I’m currently booked to attend this year (though I’m hoping to get to @media Ajax in November) So I’m really looking forward to it. The sessions look like they are going to be very good – I’m also looking forward to spending… Read note →

  • The first Worthing TweetUp

    Last night at the Burlington Hotel, during the biggest thunderstorm so far this summer we had the first Worthing TweetUp. Considering this is something that started as an idea I mentioned to David Rosam in passing two or three weeks ago I was pretty pleased with the turn out. David & I were there along… Read note →

  • Worthing Tweetup

    The other day I got chatting to David Rosam on  Twitter when we discovered that we lived very close to each other.  It occurred to us that there were probably a number of other Twitter users in the area, failing that it seemed likely that there would be lots of freelancers & assorted geeks Worthing… Read note →

  • dconstruct 08 compo

    Those fine fellows at clear left are once again running dconstruct the peerless Brightonian one day web conference. I was there last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Hopefully my boss read his email last week and remembered to book my ticket, but in case he didn’t I decided to enter the competition for a ticket.… Read note →

  • FOWD 2008 London – (the conference)

    FOWD 2008 got off to a promising start when I met Jeremy Keithgetting off the Tube, we chatted as we waited in the monster queue outside Kensington Town Hall about a wide range of topics from DOM Scripting and Microformats to our new Macs. I had intended to “live blog” throughout the day , but… Read note →