Tag Archives: conference


Aug 11

To Geo Lecture Or To Geo Debate?

Although it’s a sweeping generalisation, conferences tend to polarise to one of two extremes. On the one extreme, there’s the lecture approach, where the audience sits in quiet appreciation whilst they listen to people on stage talk at them. But … Continue reading

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Apr 11

Communicating To The Communicators (At The CIPR Social Media Conference)

Regular readers of this blog will be aware of my comfort zones when it comes to speaking at conferences. If there’s maps, geography or location involved, however tenuous the connection, I’m well within my comfort zone. But speaking to a … Continue reading

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Oct 10

“Tweet Responsibly”

For almost as long as there’s been conferences there’s been conference back-channels. The precise medium which forms the back-channel has morphed over time, from quickly scrawled notes passed amongst delegates, to SMS messages, to IRC (Internet Relay Chat for those … Continue reading

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Sep 10

W3G – From Blog Post To Tee-Shirt

It’s been a long, exhausting, amazing, geo filled day but the first W3G conference is finally over. I’ll write a more detailed post on the day later but for now, it suffices to say that it’s not every day that … Continue reading

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May 10

And In A Change To Our Scheduled Programming …

For a variety of reasons I’m sadly not going to be speaking at this year’s Telematics event in Detroit in a few week’s time and neither will I be at State of the Map. The variety of reasons are both … Continue reading

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