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After Niemöller

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I’ve been taking part today in a discussion about photography – specifically, about how in the Modern Era it’s common for organisations to try and get a bit of photography on the cheap by using the work of amateurs, or – worse still – nicking it off the internet.

It occurred to me that the phenomenon of the cheapskate company trying to get some professional work done on the cheap isn’t a new one:

First they came for the newspaper typesetters,
And I did not speak up because I wasn’t a newspaper typesetter

Then they came for the graphic designers,
And I did not speak up because I wasn’t a graphic designer

Then they came for the web developers,
And I did not speak up because I wasn’t a web developer

Then they came for the journalists,
And I did not speak up because I wasn’t a journalist

Then they came for the photographers,
And by that time there was nobody left to speak up.

The cheque – R.I.P.

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“Cheques will be phased out by October 2018, but only if adequate alternatives are developed, the UK Payments Council – the body that oversees payments strategy – has said. The Council said there should be ‘no scenario’ for using cheques by 2018. The target date for the closure of the system that processes cheques has been [...]

Social Media for organisations

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Nick Booth has written an excellent article in response to (although it actually predated it) a consultation Birmingham City Council are currently running about how to develop its Press Office service. It’s sufficiently general that it works as good advice for any organisation thinking about how to modernise its public relations activity; indeed, it serves [...]

Social network sites ‘monitored’

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“Social networking sites like Facebook could be monitored by the UK government under proposals to make them keep details of users’ contacts. The Home Office said it was needed to tackle crime gangs and terrorists who might use the sites, but said it would not keep the content of conversations”. What’s not mentioned in the [...]

Hello Digital festival – live as it happens

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“Discover the future at The Midlands’ first digital festival. Celebrating the awe inspiring possibilities of the modern world, Hello Digital is an electrifying showcase of sights, sounds and dreams turning into reality”. Here is all the live comment and pictures, via Twitter and Flickr: Read the rest of the Hello Digital twitter stream on Twemes. [...]

Real opportunities in a virtual Birmingham

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I’d like to have been able to say how good the session Real opportunities in a virtual Birmingham, supposedly broadly about Second Life(tm), and specifically about Birmingham’s presence which has been developed there, was. I would, really. Unfortunately, not only was the internet connectivity – both wifi and 3G – in the conference room so [...]

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