Thoughts and ideas of a dyslexic designer/developer
I had the pleasure of going to Manchester Tech Nights, which is usually clashing with the Manchester Werewolf Chapter. Thankfully not this one, good work Chris sorting this one out. The bit which stood out for me was a talk from Elizabeth Clarke who talked about the interaction between males and females in the work…
While talking to Martin, Sam, Chris and others over the last few weeks. I have been thinking how things have been forgotten. The history of geek culture seems to get forgotten too often. Recently a discussion about the tech community in Manchester with Martin raised a bunch of questions in my mind. How much of…
I attended a networking workshop at the BBC the other day. I was wondering how it was going to go, because sometimes the workshops at work can be hit and miss. The trainer for the workshop was down to earth Darren Jenkins from digienable. Darren was good and his advice was welcomed. Now I know…
My friend Chris has something which has been bugging him. He told me while we had a late breakfast in VividLounge. There’s something that’s bugged me about events in Manchester’s tech scene for a while. There are a lot of great specialist events, and a lot of networking events, but there appears to be little…
I have always wanted to help people around me, its in my blood and I sometimes end up doing it regardless of my work load (must stop doing so). Anyhow a few months ago I ran a series of events as part of the BBC’s Connected studio called BBC Connected Social. One of the events…
I had the pleasure of supporting and attending Hacked.io which was a hackday in the most traditional sense of the word. Run by the Geeks of London for 02 Labs, it couldn’t have been more fitting to hold it at the 02 arena (the old millennium dome). Now I knew the plans ahead of most…
I had the pleasure of attending the one day barcamp nicknamed bracamp… It was a interesting take on a barcamp and although I signed up originally because Laura was a sponsor, decided to go ahead when Hwayoung said she’ll invite me (you know the rules of girl geekdinners, woman can only invite a guy) Anyhow…
This is Tuesday in my busy social week Thanks to Josh I got asked to give a view of the online dating world at Preston Social. I’ve not really spent much time in Preston before except at the Train station and during hack to the future. A little walk down the street and I was…
I’m humbled to announce I’ve been asked to talk at TedXManchester… The first TEDxManchester took place in 2009 at the BBC’s New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road. We took over the historic Studio 7 and converted the BBC Philharmonic’s rehearsal space into a conference venue and created what was then Europe’s largest ever TEDx event.…
Simon Lumb and Aden Davies shared Russell Davis’s post about how to be interesting… He makes two assumptions… The way to be interesting is to be interested. You’ve got to find what’s interesting in everything, you’ve got to be good at noticing things, you’ve got to be good at listening. If you find people (and things) interesting,…
The Hodge ping’ed me on gtalk today and pointed me at a hack He and Caius had done for Honda Hack day Its called I am, I do… What is this? I am, I do is a user edited database of stories, advice and inspiration of people following their dream. We started by asking people we knew…
Josh and Martin said they would write up what happened a while ago. I didn’t know but Martin wrote up the evening on the Social Media Cafe website, some time ago. Last week, a good 25 or so people joined us at Common to discuss the future of Social Media Cafe Manchester. We thought it would be…
I seem to be a connector…I have identified there is something in me which gets excited about getting people together. Its almost like my brain releases extra dopamine at the notion of getting people together.Recently I’ve been made the social committee chair for my flats (islington wharf). Well I kind of made myself it really.…
So after reviewing my 2010 resolutions its time for my 2011 resolutionsSki on real snowYes every year I say this but seriously this coming year, I’m going to do it at that indoor snow place (Chill Factor) in the Trafford Centre.Organise a Trance night in ManchesterNot only can I dj but i’ve found 2 djs…
[caption id="attachment_54353" align="alignnone" width="840"] My profile picture for conferences bios[/caption] Name: Ian Forrester Pronouns: (he/him) Job title: Senior Firestarter / Senior Firestarter Producer My bio from Linkedin Ian Forrester is a well known character on the digital scene in the UK and Europe. Living in Manchester, UK, he works for the BBC’s R&D Advisory team.…