This month, we’re taking great pleasure in helping out both the London and Brighton Twestivals on the 12th of February. We’re donating a mind-expanding, floaty prize to the London Twestival raffle, and we’re a main sponsor for the Brighton Twestival.
Author Archives: Premasagar
Wishing You a…
December 23, 2008 – 11:12 am
(Hint: Take a closer look) To all the beautiful people we’ve worked with over the past year… to all our readers and contributors, family, friends, peers and, well, everybody else… Have a sumptuous Christmas (or Winter Solstice, or what have you) and an inspirational New Year. Be well, be great and be here with us [...]
Put Yourself on the Map
December 4, 2008 – 11:00 am
If you had a map and you could show it to anyone, what would you put on it? These days, maps are playing a big part in the development of social media. Imagine you were to run an event, or make a journey around the world, how could you represent it online? How could you [...]
4 Ways to Make the Most of BarCamp
October 31, 2008 – 3:28 pm
We want to spend a little time reminiscing about last month’s Brighton BarCamp, one of our favourite events of the year and a time when we get to roll up our sleeves and muck in with the community. BarCamp is a self-organised gathering of New Media enthusiasts and an important opportunity to share knowledge with [...]
Live! We’re Tracking a Big Bus with the BBC
September 11, 2008 – 3:41 pm
URL: bbc.co.uk/worldservice/talkingamerica Excitingly, not long after we built the award-winning Bangladesh River Journey mini-site for the BBC World Service, we were asked for another helping of social media expertise. What is it? Talking America is a trail-blazing social media campaign that we’re proud to have worked on. This time, it’s a live site that tracks [...]
3-2-1, Blast Off to Planet Crunchy
September 6, 2008 – 9:30 am
URL: dharmafly.com/crunchies Planet what? ‘Planet‘ sites are a new and wonderful way to draw people with common interests together online… and today is the day we get to demonstrate how. What’s all this green stuff? This weekend, at Barcamp Brighton3, we’re giving Brighton’s best New Media pros some special treats, in the form of Dharmafly [...]
What’s Green and Goes to BarCamp?
September 1, 2008 – 12:58 pm
We’re proud to be a mini-sponsor of Brighton’s upcoming BarCamp, a revolutionary indoor-conference-camping-type event that’s enjoying growing cult status around the world. What’s Barcamp? Essentially it’s a philanthropic grassroots event, run by the community for the community (in this case, Brighton’s New Media and technology community). It’s an opportunity to share expertise, make contacts and [...]
It’s Getting Windy in Here
July 1, 2008 – 1:25 pm
After a thorough search, we are now working with a new web hosting provider for the websites that we manage. Web hosting is where a website lives on the Web. It needs to be fast, reliable and supported by a dedicated technical team. And… it needs to be powered by 100% renewable energy. Web hosting [...]
Bangladesh River Journey Wins Industry Awards
May 14, 2008 – 3:17 pm
The Bangladesh River Journey, a BBC World Service project to track climate change, for which we built the interactive mini-site, has recently received two prestigious awards. These awards recognise the innovative way that the project brought social media reporting on important global issues into an engaging user-experience.
Location-Based Publishing and Services
April 22, 2008 – 3:29 pm
I have recently had a technical article about Location-Based Publishing and Services published at Dev.Opera. It’s all about the rising use of geographical coordinates in association with media on the Web, and how to get involved. For the benefit of the Dharmafly archives, I’ve copied the article below.