In October 2010 I delivered a half day session at the amazing Newcastle Library on behalf of New Writing North to a group of authors interested in getting started with Twitter and using it more effectively. The Newcastle Library for those who’ve not been, is an amazing new building, and quite the busiest library I’ve [...]

Recently a client caused me to scratch my head and have to put my thinking cap on. How do you make the most of the 11,000 photos they’ve taken over the last 6 years to help promote their business and find the value in a record of their work. I’ll cover what we did another [...]

Bizpond.co.uk is a simple idea to help less technical businesses find benefit from services such as Twitter and the communities that form around them. Bizpond went from concept to launch in three months, and was a collaborative project between Stick Theory, Twisted Studios and The Approachable Geek, with suport from PNE Group and Women Into [...]

A local marketing agency had a huge wealth of postcode data from a mailing list that they needed to make sense of.  Where were these places? Did they cluster in certain areas?  Where should they focus their attentions. Over the course of a few hours, I was able to clean up the data (remove duplicates, [...]

A client has over 1000 Excel spreadsheets that had been exported from a booking system that the dreaded tax man required.  They had come out of the system in incrementing numbers 0001.xls, 0002.xls etc, one for each day of the previous 3 years of trading. The taxman however  requested that they be named with the [...]

The very excellent Women Into The Network are running a series of events over the next few months in the North East which are a gentle introduction to social networks, social media and finding your feet online, and I’m presenting some of them. As a fully fledged geek, and one who mostly does business with [...]