Head of Innovation at Screen West Midlands

It’s all go at Screen West Midlands at the moment (our local film, tv and digital agency). Here’s an advert for a mighty fascinating sounding job:
We’re looking for an inspirational, experienced and highly skilled individual to support and drive the region’s rapidly changing media landscape.
The new senior level post of Head of Innovation and New [...]

The Personal MBA: Update

After posting about the Personal MBA last February, we started up a Birmingham group in March and have spent 2007 reading some great (and some not so great) books about business in all its forms. We’ve just had a summer break and will be re-starting in October.
Two highlights for me have been:

The Art of Project [...]

BBC Innovation Labs: How the West Midlanders got on

(NB apologies if you saw an earlier, mangled version of this post yesterday – my mistake!)
Last Friday (30th March) I went to the final day of the Southern BBC Innovation Labs on behalf of Digital Central
Here’s a quick run-down of the day, including a few interviews I did with some of those involved.
[12:00pm]
I’ve come down to the Spread [...]

Coworking Spaces: Update

A quick update on the post about Coworking Spaces.
The response to this was very positive – as well as getting in touch with Ben from Inventicus who has already been researching the idea (and was looking for partners), Laura from Unlimited also responded saying she’d been looking into setting up something similar to The Hub [...]

New start for The Rainbow? PLUS Film promoter wanted

I’ve recently been chatting to Adam and Lee, two of the new owners of the Rainbow Pub in Digbeth, (Birmingham UK) and they’re looking for someone to run a monthly film night. Actually, every Monday’s going to be a film night but three promoters have already stepped forward so they’re looking for one more.
On a [...]

Coworking space in Birmingham

Being someone who likes to move around between places while I’m working, and who does sometimes miss sitting in an office with a group of other like-minded people, I was really interested by an post on Co-working spaces I read on the Creativity Exchange blog today.
The idea is to create a flexible working space which [...]

Get your name in lights

A great example of how to mix online and offline elements to create a great participative project. Check out the website and tell them who you think should be projected in gigantic letters across Birmingham City Centre.

Anyone want to do a Personal MBA?

Touted as a way to "Master Business Without Spending a Fortune", the basic idea of the Personal MBA is that instead of spending tens of thousands of pounds doing a traditional MBA in a business school, you spend a tiny fraction of the money on reading a preselected list of books which have been chosen [...]

Creative Students to Creative Entrepreneurs

This conference took place yesterday and was organised by UCE (Charlotte Carey and Sara Harris were the organisers)
The theme of the conference was one that I’m particularly interested in, namely how to educate creative people on how to run their businesses better, specifically within Higher Education.
I have to say that it was well-focussed, well-attended and [...]