http://shine.socialreporter.net Thu, 22 May 2008 15:12:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dave Dawes, of Entreprenurses fame, has posted up his podcast of bloggers talking about blogging (and a bit about twittering) at Shine 2008. It features not only myself (the most incoherent / inaudible of all the participants) but also a range of other blogging advocates and sceptics, and covers, amongst ... http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/22/podcast-about-blogs-from-shine-is-up/ [HTML2] Pictures from Shine have been posted on flickr and should be appearing above in a nice slideshow. If you took any pictures and want to share them on flickr, tag them shine2008 and we'll show them here. http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/12/photos-from-shine-2008/ OK - final event here at Shine 2008, with 3 social entrepreneurs pitching to an esteemed panel for £5000.....MC'd by the 'compere without compare', Matt Kepple. I can see David Wilcox doing some video of the pitches, so I'll aim at an edited highlights commentary. First up is Minnie from India, ... http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/11/live-blogging-final-pitching-event/ [HTML1] Saul Albert and his friends are running a version of their Talkaoke in the final stages of the Shine conference. This involves a roving microphone, plus a camera and computer throwing a mix of video and snippets of text on screen. I'm shooting some video on a phone, which you will ... http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/11/talkeoke-lite/ Just been chatting to David McQueen, who's been helping us out here with some MCing and discussions around communication and presentation skills. David was telling me about how he does some group coaching every other Friday in a coffee shop and, by way of payment, the people coming along have ... http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/11/chats-and-conversations-david-mcqueen/ It must be the hottest and sunniest day of the year, and, in combination with the Premiership title decider , that means the crowd is smaller today. There is a lazy, Sunday vibe today....but still people from different walks of life, different backgrounds connecting, getting advice and taking part in ... http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/11/the-vibe-is-chilled-and-engaged/ Just attended a great session led by Servane Mouazan of Ogunte about different ways of gaining insights into dilemmas, obstacles and situations. Introductions via the senses (i.e. less what's your name, and more what's your favourite colour, smell, sound etc.) were remarkably illuminating, and there were some interesting connections from ... http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/11/insights-and-wedding-dances/ Thankfully, no hangover this morning, and it's another beautiful day here at the ever-more-appropriately named Shine 2008. There was so much going on yesterday that I barely got a chance to sit down and type before being whisked away somewhere... Some highlights for me: - the Kaos Pilots living up to their ... http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/11/day-3-beginsand-a-look-back-at-day-2/ [HTML1] Nick wrote earlier about the importance of better understanding how to help people connect at events, and the experiments that Shine Unconference is carrying out with The Social Network Company. I explored those possibilities further with organiser Jess Tyrrell, and Tom Alcott in this conversation. http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/10/making-mapping-part-of-the-event/ The Shine unconference is very much about connecting people: acknowledging the value that comes from one-to-one connections, intimate conversations, personal advice, peer-to-peer learning and so forth. This did make it difficult at times to pitch to funders: so mapping those connections, trying to track them, and start to measure the ... http://shine.socialreporter.net/2008/05/10/mapping-connections-at-shine/