Colleagues
No individual company would be large enough to provide all the possible knowledge and tools people are going to need over the next decade. Let alone the agility needed to create teams around needs, rather than the other way around.
So we’re being very Web 2.0, open and collaborative here at Nodestone in digital Brighton, and opting for radical collegiality (big nod to Michael Fielding for that concept)
Call them Partners, Associates, Collaborators… any or all of these might fit.
If we are not the right people for the job, we’ll help you find who is. It also means we can manage supply and demand - if we’re too busy, a colleague can step in.
These are all people we connect with regularly on different levels:
- To share ideas and develop our thinking
- Working on projects together - for clients or for our communities
- To help create a positive future for the internet, society and the planet
Many are co-workers at The Werks. We might sit across a desk or just call on each other regularly to help solve problems. Together, we are stronger.
Since we began working this way in the 90s, it has become an increasingly common and highly effective way to organise talent. We all look forward to sharing it with you.
Call us on 0845 508 5808
(Listed alphabetically. Not listed yet? Already a colleague or would like to be? Happy to hear from you.)
Ben Sauer > Red Beard
Web user-experience consultant and creative agent at large. Co-worker.
www.redbeard.org.uk. Follow Ben on Twitter: redbeard
Beth Granter
Social media and feminist blogger, web developer, designer, illustrator.
www.bethgranter.com. Follow Beth on Twitter: bethgranter
Beth Tilston
Video blogging activist and educator. Co-worker. Co-convener of Reclaim the Web. www.abovetherug.blogspot.com. Follow Beth on Twitter: bethtilston
Chris Anderson > Turnfront
Web designer and developer, social media integrator, activist. Using web technology for good. Co-convenor of Reclaim the Web.
www.turnfront.com. Follow Chris on Twitter: turnfront
Dave McQueen > Milestone Unlimited
Personal and professional development. Energy and love. Lots. http://www.milestoneunltd.com/
Dom Stockdale > Adymo
Web developer, project manager, all-round smart guy. Co-worker.
www.adymo.com. Don’t follow Dom on Twitter…
Emma Smith
Web design, internet software development and accessibility specialist. Co-worker.
www.basement59.co.uk
Erica Sosna > The Life Project
Life skills education - for everyone. www.thelifeproject.co.uk
Gavin Wye
Graphic designer (web, print, anywhere). Keen sense of brand strategy. Helped create and design our logo. Co-worker. Contact Gavin.
Professor Ian Cunningham
Academic, consultant, educational visionary. Founder of the Self Managed Learning Approach. Co-fellow of The RSA. www.selfmanagedlearning.org
Ian Elwick
Creative industries consultancy. Co-founder of The Werks and co-worker.
www.thewerks.org.uk
Email Ian: ian.elwick@werkshop.org.uk
James McCarthy
Software developer, community builder. Co-founder of The Werks and co-worker.
Follow James on Twitter: james2m
Jay Alvarez > Limbic Fishnet
Graphic and web designer. Specialises in working with organisations doing good stuff in the world. www.limbicfish.net
Contact Jay
Jay Caines-Gooby > Remote Matters
Ruby on Rails web consultancy, design and build.
www.remotematters.com.
Follow Jay on Twitter: jaygooby
Jim Callender > Callender Creates
Web consultancy, user-centred design and development.
www.callendercreates.com
Follow Jim on Twitter: jimcallender
Jonathon Markwell > Inuda
Social software consultancy, development and support.
www.inuda.com
Follow Jonathon on Twitter: madmotive
Premasagar & Madhavaji > Dharmafly
Social media for social change.
www.dharmafly.com
Follow Prem on Twitter: Premasagar
Follow Madhavaji on Twitter: Madhavaji
Richard “Biff” Birkin
Master blogger, social media integrator, community builder, start-up survivor (ex-Naked). Writer, musician.
www.timetravelopportunists.blogspot.com
Rosie Sherry
Community builder and social media pundit. Co-founder of The Werks and co-worker.
www.rosiesherry.com
Follow Rosie on Twitter: rosiesherry
Seb Mary, Andy, Dougald & Co > School of Everything
An extra-ordinary place where teachers and learners get together.
www.schoolofeverything.com
Follow SoE on Twitter: EverythingHQ
Tessy Britton > Thriving
Blogger, social networker, emotional intelligence teacher, social media for education pundit. Co-fellow of The RSA.
www.thrivingtoo.typepad.com/thriving_too
Follow Tessy on Twitter: TessyBritton
Tor Goldfied & Kim Stoddart > Blue Rocket / Green Rocket
Ethical media relations.
www.bluerocketgroup.com
Will McInnes, Tom Nixon & co > NixonMcInnes
Social media agency / evangelists and fellow Brightonians. Woop woop.
http://www.nixonmcinnes.co.uk
Follow Will on Twitter: willcinnes
Follow Tom on Twitter: tomnixon
Zoe Porteous > Boutique Communications
Public relations & marketing agency. Fellow Brightonians.
http://www.boutiquecommunications.com
Community & Collaborators
In addition to these named colleagues, we are actively involved with a range of other fine folk, many of whom we regularly collaborate with via Twitter, Ning, each others blogs, skillswaps, social and professional events. It’s our extended Community of Practice, and subgroups within.
Welcome to an inspired, passionate network of geeks, communicators, thinkers, educators and other shiny people! Join any or all - and start sharing and learning. See how Web 2.0 really works.
- Authentic Social Media - the first place for our kind of folk. Also has a stub page on Facebook with members. Loads of good resources and discussions to share.
“We’re here to make a positive difference through blogging and other social media - for ourselves, for our organisations, for others. I think, you think, we create (better) together.”
- The Royal Society for the Arts - Libby was recently invited to become a Fellow and we both get into their lectures and projects.
- The Werks - our super co-working and event space in sunny Brighton. Well (just) Hove, actually. Currently populated by over 30 regular colleagues ranging from consultants to ethical business folk to charity organisers, artists, web types and graphic designers (see below), shipping logicians (!), writers, creative industry consultants and more… A very, very big thanks to James McCarthy & Ian Elwick (co-founder of the Brighton Media Centre).
- Find out who’s saying what in The Werks Ning.
- Become a co-worker or book the event space here.
- Read what lovely Will McInnes had to say about co-working and The Werks recently.
- So much going on in digital Brighton. A great community to learn and develop with. New people (like Second Life and Club Penguin) moving here all the time. Great networks helping make things happen include. Explore, join in, contribute.
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