While the ceremony for the Guardian Media Awards might have been a bit of a farce, the philosophy behind the awards is a good one, celebrating innovation rather than some arbitrary metric of “success”. And I don’t just say that because Created in Birmingham got one. In Monday’s Guardian there was a supplement featuring interviews … [Read more…]
Hello, my name is Julia Gilbert, your Created in Birmingham guest blogger. You may also know me from such social media tools as Flickr, del.icio.us, Tumblr and Twitter. While Pete is taking a well-deserved trip across the pond to attend SXSWi on behalf of us Brummies. I’ll be taking up the reins, so that nothing … [Read more…]
If you were at the Creative Republic launch / Created in Birmingham birthday party the other week you might well be in this. It also has my “speech”, which is handy as I had no idea what I was saying. If you can’t see the video click here
Due to increased expected numbers the venue for the joint Creative Republic / Created in Birmingham party this Thursday (that’s tomorrow!) has changed. It’s now at the Vertu Bar at 25 Frederick Street in the Jewellery Quarter which looks a little like this. All other details remain the same. Oh, apparently I’m giving a speech … [Read more…]
Please note venue change 21st Feb, 6pm onwards. Concrete at Big Peg the Vertu Bar at 25 Frederick Street, Jewellery Quarter. Spread the word! (Please RSVP to lorraine [at] creativerepublic.org.uk so we can get an idea of how many people are turning up)
Inspired, it must be said, by Dubber’s Newswire I’ve been working on a new service on Created in Birmingham – the News River. For want of a better name. You can find it in the menu bat at the top of each page. This should hopefully mitigate a few of issues. Firstly it’ll allow me … [Read more…]
I’ve been sitting on this for a week or so (well, that’s a slight exaggeration – it’s become something of a worst kept secret, though I did try) but with the publication of the shortlist for the Media Guardian Innovation Awards it can be spoken of loudly and proudly. Created in Birmingham has been shortlisted … [Read more…]
Right, we’re about to enter a month of down-time on Created in Birmingham as I’m off on my holidays for a month. I’ll still be checking in every few days and monitoring the RSS feeds, posting stuff that’s quick and easy to post, but services will be reduced quite substantially. Suffice to say this policy … [Read more…]