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2020
Project Management, Facilitation, IS consultancy and Digital Production for the WordPress collection
- Better Together: website re-build, new theme, move to Gutenberg, content migration
- A law firm: workshop design and facilitation for Digital Transformation Project initiation
- Psyval: website build
- Avon Mutual: website revamp
- Anthropocene Actions: consultancy: mapping Covid-19 conversations
- The Harbour: digital manager role: voluntary: helping the organisation move online
2019
Mostly digital production (WordPress), facilitation coming up more…
- Transition Network: web admin for Transition Initiatives directory (data validation and translations)
- Wessex Community Assets: complete website re-build (based on brand design from designers): consultancy, staging site to test themes, new theme, move from Beaver Builder to Gutenberg, content migration, introduction to Gutenberg
- Dorset Community Energy: Community Share Offer campaign consultancy and production: page design, creation, promotion, Mailchimp (DCE reached their target of £445,000 raised in under one month)
- Alcarelle: WordPress installation, configuration and site build, hosting recommendation and set up
- Middlemarch Associates: WordPress installation, configuration and site build, hosting recommendation and set up
- Dorchester Yoga and Therapy Centre: Open Day promotion: web and email campaign
- Alcarelle: Consultancy: web and IT review, process reflection, options analysis and recommendations
- Wessex Community Assets: website updating, re-design, editors’ co-ordination
- Emma Mitchell Reflexology: domain registration and website hosting, site set up, design and build, content population
- Dorchester Yoga and Therapy Centre: Introduce Gutenberg editor: install, test, training and gradual roll-out
- Dorset Community Energy: Introduce Gutenberg editor: install, test, training and gradual roll-out
- Ongoing management for various sites
2018
Mostly digital production with a medium term consultancy around digital production and facilitation mentoring.
- Wessex Community Assets: IT review
- Anthropocene Actions: WordPress build, workshop design
- Schumacher College: Consultancy: Digital Production and Facilitation Mentoring for ‘Schumacher Network‘ online community platform
- Dorchester Yoga and Therapy Centre: WordPress build and maintenance, site and newsletter copy, domain and website migration, GDPR work
- Dorset Community Energy: GDPR work
2017 and earlier
2016 & 2017 was mostly digital production and consultancy.
2009 – 2015 permanent role as Digital and Communications Manager for Transition Network.
2006 – 2009 a mix of digital and face to face facilitation for groups, some big group events blended into online community models (Communities Of Practice, Learning, Interest, Membership Associations) and consultancy around ‘socio-technical design’ (ie: working with clients to understand their community/network goals and work out how to achieve them on and offline).
2004 – 2006 permanent role as Editor for KnowledgeBoard, an EC online community for knowledge management and innovation professionals across the world
2003 – 2004 MSc Information Technology (distinction) from UWE – thesis in web analytics and its use in organisations at the time
2002 – 2003 (?) Production Manager at UpMyStreet.com
- Dorset Community Energy: Website design and build, training and ongoing support
- Kim Jones Wellbeing: WordPress.com website consultancy and delivery
- Ultimate Fitness Dorset: Communications and web advice, race marshalling
- Field of Wheat: Group facilitation design consultancy for environmental art project
- Schumacher College: Online Community Development Consultancy
- Transition Network: Web and Communications Manager
- Bristol University Centre for Public Engagement: Strategic and tactical mentoring and advice during new website development process
- Bristol City Council: Citizenscape project: training workshop design and facilitation for citizen facilitators
- BBC Learning Development: Event design and facilitation: BBC Learning Unplugged
- Bristol Natural History Consortium: Bristol Bioblitz: Blog, Flickr, Youtube etc. set up and training
- Transition Towns: Project Manager: Web Project: consult, review, engage, produce recommendations for board
- Making Music: Strategic web consultancy (Social Spaces, Storytelling, Narrative Analysis, Patterns, Ownership) with David Wilcox
- Royal Society of Arts (annual fellows ‘Exchange’ event (20/11/08)): Blended event planning support and onsite facilitation
- Incisive Media (Online Information conference 2008): pre-event networking strategy workshops and facilitation mentoring & during event knowledge networking facilitation
- British Council (Information and Knowledge annual conference (18/11/08)): Knowledge cafe facilitation
- Global Fund Media: Strategic consultancy workshops for launching new social networking platform with blended facilitation through events
- Interesting Games Festival (19-21/09/08): Game mentor and event team for games festival
- ETH Zurich: Event design and facilitation for CO2 reduction event with the Unbla team (November 2008)
- BBC Learning Department: Event design and facilitation for ‘Postcards’ event (Autumn 2008)
- Dome Mode: Production manager and onsite team leader for marquee company (Summer 2008)
- 2gether08: ‘live tag surfing’ conference group intervention with Dan Dixon (2/07/08)
- DC10 plus: Event design and facilitation for ‘Communities building Capacity’ project practitioners’ workshop (11/06/08)
- Connecting Bristol: Design and facilitate ‘Virtual Farmer’s Market collaboration’ event (29/05/08)
- Bristol’s Gurteen Knowledge Cafes: Curate and co-facilitate regular Gurteen Knowledge Community meetings
- Jiva Technology: Social Architecture consultancy for new product and community engagement with Dan Dixon
- VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas): Membership community launch with Sift including management level consultancy and team building for community team, Community team preparation and training, online community launch strategy, mentorship of community team for online facilitation
- iShed: Blended facilitation for Pervasive Media Sandbox project including long term group design and planning, events design and facilitation, virtual space design and facilitation, client mentoring, after action reviews and reporting
- British Council (external collaboration dept): Community management workshop design and delivery in partnership with Cordovan
- Arts Council of England: Online community consultancy with Partnerships Online: OD Thrive! Project
- CILIP: Online membership community consultancy with Sift
- REDR: pro-bono engagement and membership consultancy
- Bristol Skillswap: (Ex) Curator, facilitator, organiser
- We Love Ashton Court Festival: Creator and idea realise-er