Hello! I’m a 📢 public relations professional, and I love the 🌍 open web, 🎠open culture, and 🏙️ open cities.
Blog
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Being a Quaker?
I think I’m a Quaker? It’s the best way I can describe my relationship to my faith. I say I ‘think’ I’m a Quaker because I’m not a member of any meeting. I’ve worshipped (sporadically) for the last few years in an online meeting organised by Woodbrooke, but even that isn’t a ‘real’ meeting. Technically,…
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Making My Site Even More Social
Sipping coffee and scrolling through my feed reader this morning, I stumbled across a link to A social filesystem on Piccalilli’s The Index. The inner workings of Bluesky, or more accurately, AT protocol, have always been quite opaque to me, but this post laid it out with excellent clarity. There’s a little more to it…
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Hollowing out a profession
A colleague mentioned, the other day, the idea of being able to generate a complete website in just ten minutes. The reference was made in passing during a wider discussion on AI, and while it wasn’t the main focus of the conversation, it stuck with me.
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Hope Punk
I have a particular fondness for hopeful science fiction. The sort of thing that could be called solar punk. Part of that is probably the cosiness of it. How could anyone resist the charm of Becky Chambers’s tea monks, cycling from town to town, listening with care and attention, preparing salving brews?
A passion for communicating
My work is centred on making “expert” topics understandable, helping to connect people and ideas.
Making the complicated simple
I find ways to make complicated topics simple through clear communication.
Building foundations
I build the foundations for strong public and non-profit sector communication.
Open systems
I care about open systems that contribute to society, whether that be software, art, or the places we live.