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)

“Jon was a fantastic help in showing me the possibilities of Wordpress and social media in general for a significant corporate website development for the NHS. His expertise is second to none and it was great to have him involved. ” Rob Benson (NHS Birmingham East And North PCT)

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These are some of my most recent blog posts

Dead Trees

As if I didn’t have enough to do I’m working towards launching a magazine. Not just me, my good friend Danny Smith is my partner in this foolhardy enterprise.
We’re both of the opinion that there are a lot of good writers that don’t have the opportunity to stretch themselves — and that commercial magazines don’t [...]

Hashtags, A new challenge to idiots

Apparently the Olympics suffer from ‘Ambush Marketing’, meaning that if they don’t stop other people doing adverts that are a bit like they have something to do with the event then the official sponsorships aren’t worth as much dosh. It’s all about scarcity, just like how TV rights are only worth so much if you [...]

Football and cats

I always think that you can explain almost anything in terms of football or cats, and those of you who have seen me talk with probably of heard about one or the other — what I’m really doing is using smaller examples to explain big concepts. Football has given me another great example over the [...]

Hashtags and the desire to own and organise

One of my favourite books on social technology is ‘Everything Is Miscellaneous‘  by David Weinberger — a book about the power of disorder, that’s disorder in information organisation rather than the more visceral milk bottles, petrol and rags sense. It’s a book that will leave your head bursting with the potential of information, its sharing [...]

Know your place

I’m speaking at this next Wednesday, although how much freelancers have to learn from the way I work I’m not sure (maybe it’ll be what not to do).
Know Your Place (which sounds a bit Frost Report to me)
“Find out first-hand how freelancers in the world of illustration, photography, writing, design, PR, Publishing and web make [...]














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