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.
April 14th, 2010

We’ve won a Webby (almost)

While it’s not made the final shortlist of five, there’s still a bit to be proud of as Twitpanto has been made an Honoree (US spelling) in the 2010 Webby Awards in the Net Art category.

As that shortlist includes big budget projects like BBC Blast, I don’t think we’ve done badly seeing as it was one crash hot web guy (that’s Matt, not me) and 20 odd (very) Twitterers on a cold December afternoon (which you can relive, of course, here).

In speech mode, we couldn’t have done it so well without the support of the Birmingham Hippodrome — or the hundreds of people that joined in during the play. Sincere thanks for going along with it.

Quite interesting timing as the RSC’s Twitter Shakespeare project launched this week with much fanfare, in some ways it’s a logical step on from Twitpanto and it’ll be interesting to see how it’s sheer scale affects the experience (a slight overreach of scale was one of the problems I felt with this second panto).

To read all about both Twitter panto experiences there are a couple of long and detailed posts here.

January 6th, 2010

Twitpanto – worth your vote

I’m not usually one to hold much stock in awards, but I like the mixture of democracy and professional opinion that The Shorty Awards has (public vote sorts out a shortlist for such luminaries as David Pogue and MC Hammer to preside over). They are pitched as the Twitter Oscars — so as what I guess is the best dramatic use of Twitter, I think Twitpanto deserves a vote. It’s (currently) doing quite well in the ‘art’ category.

Vote here
, or just click on this bit and tweet for Twitpanto (please?).

Twitpanto Narrator (twitpanto on Twitter) was nominated for a Shorty Award
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October 10th, 2008

Award Win for The Big Picture

Last night I was at the Town Hall in Birmingham, feeling slightly uncomfortable in a suit and the rarefied atmosphere, to witness some of my colleges from The Big Picture pick up an Arts and Business award. The awards recognise partnerships between arts organisations (in this case Audiences Central who I was working for on the project) an businesses (particularity for us Jessops and the BBC, although we worked with a large number of organisations).

Awards in themselves are gratifying, we were also honoured by the Webbys, but it was also a very nice way to round off my close involvement with The Big Picture. After nearly nine months, the team can relax (with a World Record achieved and thousands of people involved) and ponder the success and the lessons that can be learned.

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