Social web & social media, consultancy, training and advice from a flâneur of the internets. Blogger, writer, broadcaster and runner of Birmingham: It's Not Shit. I also do the odd bit of art.

social media consultancy, writer and broadcaster

Offcial Honoree 2010 Webby AwardsI work as a freelance social media 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

Excellent Engagement

Content, interaction, community—that’s what your social media profile is all about. It’s a message that seems to have hit most brands, and organisations right down to the smallest. But from what I’m seeing a lot of at the moment, there are a lot of people finding it hard to think about what to do once [...]

Ask a stupid question…

If there was one central point to remember to make online consultation successful it would be that if the question isn’t a good one the best response you’ll get is none. If the object of the exercise has no real meaning or effect then, while no response would be disappointing, it only takes a tiny meme to make silence [...]

Is Twitter about to do a mass reclaim of unused accounts?

It’s easy to sign up for a Twitter account, all you need is an email address. It used to be even easier, they weren’t even verified. I have, I estimate, about a hundred—lots used but others created for short-term projects or jokes. Some, in truth, in the same way as you register a domain name—idea half-formed but [...]

How Christmassy are you feeling?

Just a little fun seasonal project I’ve made with the layout and design help of Gavin Wray. It works very much like my other sentiment analysis tools, but with a sprinkling of Santa’s magic. Santa’s magic in this instance being that any tweets with the words ‘Christmas’ or ‘Xmas’ in them are weighted doubly—that is the scores [...]

Sentiment Analysis of a Football Match

(click through for big) Last night I turned my sentiment analysis tool on two hashtags: #bcfc and #avfc, the most widely used tags to refer to Birmingham City and Aston Villa during their League Cup quarter final game. It was a chance to see if visualising to ‘competing’ tags around the same event would be [...]














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