It’s geek festival season, down here in Brighton. First up is dConstruct, a one-day conference on the cutting edge of interface design and user engagement.
And then it’s good old BarCamp Brighton, now into its fourth incarnation. BarCamp, always a favourite, is a handmade 2-day conference, pulled together by its community of participants. Everyone gives a [...]
Category: Community
Festive Geekery
September 3, 2009 – 9:26 pm
Teen Hackers Take Over Google
August 26, 2009 – 12:01 pm
At the weekend, I helped mentor a group of tech-minded teenagers at the community-led event, “Young Rewired State“. Held at Google’s London HQ, this was a two-day, action-packed programme for 15-18 year olds to build something better with government data on the web. And the results were truly impressive.
Young people are sometimes written-off as being [...]
OpenFreecycle won at OpenHackLondon!
May 15, 2009 – 3:20 pm
URL: dharmafly.com/openfreecycle
Streuth. Hot on the heels of last week’s UnLtdWorld award, I was amazed to experience the web application that I created with Tom Leitch being awarded the top two prizes Yahoo’s OpenHackLondon. And this, after winning a prize with ‘HackHUD‘ at the previous Hack Day London, two years earlier (the famous one, when it [...]
We Won a Bric!
May 12, 2009 – 6:06 am
At last week’s beautiful UnLtdWorld first birthday gathering, I was honoured to collect a shiny BRIC award, for “using technology for social good in the most creative and innovative way”.
Thank you to everyone who voted for Dharmafly, and to all who have supported us in the last 2 years.
There were five award categories,
Nominated for an UnLtdWorld BRIC Award
April 22, 2009 – 10:05 am
Dharmafly are chuffed to have been nominated for a BRIC award with UnLtdWorld, the social network for social entrepreneurs. You can vote with your feet (erm, your mouse) right here.
Since its launch, one year ago, UnLtdWorld has gone from strength to strength as a platform for collaboration, helping people to work together for social change. We’re listed in the [...]
Twitterer Floats Away at Twestival
February 11, 2009 – 11:43 am
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.
Twitter Gets Real
January 26, 2009 – 11:29 am
Twestival is a global series of local events, happening in over 100 cities worldwide (including London and Brighton), on 12 February 2009.
Twestival bridges the gap between the off- and online worlds. It provides a chance for communities on Twitter (a web service that allows users to share their thoughts with their peers) to meet in [...]
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 peer [...]
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 Crunchies; little boxes of [...]