Chris Unitt

Tips for Making Ideas Happen Scott Belsky – CEO, Behance This talk is available as a podcast. There is a love for ideas generation but organisation is as important as creativity. In the creative sector there is a general lack of accountability and leadership as well as disregarded and isolated networks.

F*ck Stats, Make Art Dave Olson – Dir of Fan Communities, MovieSet.com Art Makes The Future More interested in what to blog or twitter about rather than blogging about blogging and tweeting about Twitter. Popular art is not the stuff that lasts No matter the circumstances, etc are, it’

My Boss Doesn’t Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man Speakers: * Miles Sims – VP of Product Mgmt, Small World Labs * Peter Kim – Sr Partner, Dachis Corporation * Michael Wilson – Founder/CEO, Small World Labs * Rebecca Caroe – Sales & Business Dev Expert, CreativeAgencySecrets.com * Christian Caldwell – Web Interaction and Usability

I’m off to Austin, Texas in a bit to attend SXSWi. Yee-haw! It’s my first time out there but I’ve followed it from afar for a few years. I’ve some idea of what to expect and it’s fair to say I’m looking forward to

I’ve lived in Birmingham for a good long while now. I get out, go places and see things. However, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut and miss out on things especially the more obvious stuff. This isn’t a list of what I suspect might be

ArtBabble is an arts-focussed video site created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA): It is intended to showcase video art content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives If a comparison helps, it’s much more an artsy TED than it is a YouTube (users

Back in November I wrote a post saying that, on its own, Facebook is no good for promoting events. Irritatingly I have an example of one of the problems I mentioned. The next Birmingham Social Media Cafe event is tomorrow, Friday 27 February. There’s a BSMC Facebook group and

As you may know I’ve taken some office space in Fazeley Studios with Substrakt. Another of the sub-tenants is Kate Beatty, a talented photographer who I first heard about via a project where she was profiling Birmingham artists. The other week her model for a planned shoot had to

I like this a lot. Inspiration Bank showcases rarely seen artworks and decorative objects from Midlands-based gallery, museum and library archives. With a current strength in early fine printing and 20th century art Inspiration Bank aims to inspire creatives of today with the creativity of yesteryear The homepage is particularly

On Sunday I was back on BBC WM again, this time with Kate Spragg to talk about Created in Birmingham, its success in the Weblog Awards and the creative scene in Birmingham generally. Carl was an engaging host and quickly grasped that the most important thing the site tries to