Conversational Technologies: Tag Cloud Hats

Helping you network, by making you look ridiculous.
Last year at Barcamp Sheffield 2.1, I undertook an experiment in icebreaking. The idea was inspired by tag stickers I saw at an SI camp meetup in London. Essentially the idea was to see whether if we could view peoples interests as tags taking shape as thoughts or [...]

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Popping my Bar Camp cherry

The notion of losing my virginity of anything to a bunch of self professed geeks is pretty horrifying, but terminology aside I just wanted to try and articulate a brief explaination of what a Barcamp is and why anyone should want to attend.
I didn’t know what to expect from BarCamp London 5, but given that [...]

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Competition – Design Bar Camp Sheffield Logo

Roll up, Roll up all those who seek kudos and recognition, plus the opportunity to win a copy of Balsamiq, a tool that allows you to create software mockups in minutes.
The brief is to design us a lovely logo, better than one I have created as a place holder. Naturally I will not be on [...]

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