Social media, consultancy, training and advice from a flâneur of the internets. Blogger, writer, broadcaster and runner of Birmingham: It's Not Shit.

social media consultancy, writer and broadcaster

I work as a freelance social media and multimedia consultant and producer, and also write and blog on a wide variety of topics. I can help you get to grips with using the social web to your best advantage, be it blogging, social networking, video, podcasting, or using tools like Twitter.

Over on my blog you’ll find my thoughts and things I’ve found useful or interesting by way of “how people use the internet”, or other social technology. I’ll often share the generic conclusions that come out of my work, so you can get an idea of how you might work with me.

I’m an experienced internet producer, creating and managing websites for the last ten years.  I spent nearly four years working for the BBC designing and building interactive displays and film. I’ve also worked as a commissioning editor, and author on multimedia design books, and as a journalist.

“It was a real pleasure working with Jon on TheBig Picture… a never-ending source of inspirational new ideas for how we could make the most of the digital potential of the project…and produce[d] great results. His creativity, knowledge and enthusiasm contributed hugely to the success of the project and I hope to have the opportunity to work with him in the future.” Caroline Griffin.

“Jon Bounds is creative, sure, but his projects have something more. Whether coining memes for fun, or developing approaches to improved public consultation on policy documents, or all manner of work in between, Jon cares about his work and the way it touches people. [he] instinctively understands how people do things online, and is a true wit to boot” Jon Hickman (Birmingham City University)

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These are some of my most recent blog posts

The new Whuffocracy

The idea of rule by those with the most social capital is explored by Cory Doctrow in his novela ‘Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom‘. It doesn’t end well, and also considers a future in which the amount of social capital — or ‘whuffie’ — each person has is easily polled as everyone is [...]

It’s coloquial, mate

Lots of good clean fun on Twitter this morning where Paul Miller (@rellimluap) pointed to an “Australian Fix My Street“. It’s just a mock-up, created at the Canberra govhack hack day, but it’s great — mainly because of it’s title:

A lovely dose of self-aware humour “it’s buggered mate” — which I think is an important [...]

Birmingham Music Map

I’m a great supporter of the Birmingham Music Archive, and have long been discussing types of social media and other work that could contribute to their archiving of Birmingham based music and related culture. One idea I came up with was to map people’s music emotional attachments. Not just musicians or venues or bands, but [...]

10 local government social media myths

Nice bit of mythbusting — most of which apply to all sorts of situations: [link]

Why might you need social media help?

I’ve always struggled to explain what I do for a living, I help people with social media — in varying ways. Why would they need help? Without going into every example for individual cases — which can take a huge amount of time to be anything more than the most general — I think an [...]

Last Updated November 5th, 2009 by Jon Bounds














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