A slideshow (without soundtrack) about a tweetup organized in the heart of the national forest. the first eco and sustainability tweetup at conkers.
http://me.dm/link/rural - for the quicktime version with no audio. overdubbed audio version coming soon.
4. basics.
★ 36 years young
★ i live in derbyshire
★ freelance consultant
★ adorable daughter (2 and a bit)
★ compulsive social networker
★ active on the internet for 17+ years
★ videoblogger for 3 years
★ build mashups for web 2.0 companies
★ daily 10 minute show “audiogravity”
★ early adopter on twitter since october 2006
★ 20 years + in computing
★ utilizing my http://me.dm (blog)
★ created the http://ammoboxproject.com
★ part launched the http://conkertu.com project
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5. how it all came about.. . all from twitter.
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6. how it all came about.. . all from twitter.
★ @hedgewytch suggested me to @zerocredit_uk
★ me and emma (@zerocredit_uk) met for coffee
★ i melt emmas brain with all things social media about zerocredit
★ original idea emma wanted to talk about we never did.
★ instead we have coffee again at conkers and decide to do a
tweet-up at conkers bringing together sustainability and
environmental authoritative people in this space with
★ my mind starts to think about interesting applications for this
national forest ambient place on my doorstep.
★ conkertu.com is created
★ tumblr is used as free hosting platform for a blog - we build a
custom theme for it and start work on a geo media map.
★ crowdsource basic sponsoring, food and conkers agree to allow
us to host it donating space and coffee.
★ we do all of this in four weeks.
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7. CONKERTU LAUNCHED 28th November 2k9
the first sustainability/eco uk tweetup
in the geographic heart of the national forest.
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8. . . erm, what i was actually thinking at the time.
‘a chance redirection on twitter that had me spending
four weeks working on the potential to change the
local economy in a rural location by bringing together
the local community parishes to crowdsource a fast
fibre connection whilst enabling the parishes to
communicate better’
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9. 'the long here, the big now and other tales of the networked city'
adam greenfield | http://speedbird.wordpress.com
http://share.ovi.com/media/nokiaopenlab08.nokiaopenlab08/nokiaopenlab08.10033
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12. so why did i get involved in the project?
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13. so why did i get involved in the project?
‘it looks like any enemies space weapon from a
james bond film with solar panels’
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25. but why would they want it?
- speed ( most places barely get 1meg)
- cost (10 meg up and down - £30) a month
- build realtime communities
- interactive at conkers
- communicate events more often
- hyperlocal business directory
- realtime ordering, tracking and delivery.
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33. what could be done?
- local suppliers from bakers & farmers
- local couriers and gps tracking
- enhance interactive offering at conkers
- network local stores with their promotions
- tweet’a’box - arduino based
- HD live streaming from outdoor events
- provide more bandwidth to local companies
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34. local small content producers
realtime & hyperlocal
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36. so what’s next.
- regular meetings with local community
- create ‘ranger’ blog presence
- international/us kickstarter fibre funding
- raise sponsoring for tweetabox @ conkers
- speak to bakertweet about equipment
- solar powered wireless access points
- mockup a portal layout for the locality
- find a local baker & farmer to install
bakertweet style boxes for tweet testing
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