Back in the early weeks of this year, I wrote a couple of things about how we could use the internet to help people handle the personal impact of the recession. Those posts generated a lot of conversation and several projects. Thanks to the huge...
Topics: employment, finding work, job seeking, signpostr, social media and the recession, unemployment

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It's been ages since I've written anything about School of Everything on here. That's a reflection of the direction my life has taken since the start of 2009: I've gone from full time involvement with SoE to spending two days a week there.
Topics: education, experiments, free schools, learning, pick me up, school of everything, university of openness

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Avast, me hearties! In my continuing career as a professional amateur, stumbling through other people's specialisms, I've joined up with The Beekeepers - a remarkable crew who "design games, interpret history and create unique events"...
Topics: beekeepers, pirates, the treehouse gallery

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Over the past six months, I've been helping organise a regular London meetup called GlueSniffers, bringing together people from the tech industry and people from the world of development and NGOs. The aim is to build better connections between...
Topics: gluesniffers, ict for development

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Do you know someone who wants to get experience in urban design, community development and creative regeneration? We're looking for someone who is available part- or full-time over the next few weeks to get things moving around the reuse of empty...
Topics: empty space, internship, space makers network, tower hamlets

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