Author Archives: Andy Mabbett

About Andy Mabbett

Enjoying my new freelance career, helping organisations to understand on-line communities, open content, and related issues.

The Prime Minister, Social Media Surgeries and Me

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett is a recipient, with others, of the “Big Society Award”, for his work running Social Media Surgeries. Continue reading →

Posted in about me, Birmingham, hyperlocal, news, social media, Twitter, Wikipedia, WordPress | Tagged Aston, Big Society, Birmingham, Coventry, David Cameron, digbeth, Dudley, facebook, google, libcamp, libcampUK2011, Nick booth, Oscott, perry barr, Pete Ashton, social media, social media surgeries, social media surgery, Stourbridge, twitter, Walsall, wikipedia, wordpress | 1 Comment

Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett calls on public bodies to provide open-licensed pictures of politicians and senior officers. Continue reading →

Posted in hyperlocal, ideas, local government, open data, photography, Wikipedia | Tagged accountability, aerial photography, Birmingham City Council, blogging, Bull Ring, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, copyright, Creative Commons, democracy, flickr, free, hyperlocal, journalism, libre, licence, licensing, local government, localgovweb, open data, open licence, opendata, OpenlyLocal, Paul Tilsley, photography, politicians, politics, social media, web, West Midlands Police, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia | 16 Comments

Lightning Talks Strike Twice

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Andy Mabbett

I very much enjoyed attending Local Gov Camp North West last weekend. Although it was attended by fewer people than other unconferences I’ve been to (due to people crying off for fear the impending snowpocalypse would leave them stranded in … Continue reading →

Posted in hyperlocal, ideas, local government, microformats, Wikipedia | Tagged BrewCamp, Celebration20, EurekaFestivalOfResources, GLAMCamp, iGLAMsterdam, JohnPopham, LightningTalk, LightningTalks, LocalGovCampNW, microformats, Preston, wikipedia | 3 Comments

Bullet points from UK Govcamp 2012

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Andy Mabbett

Twenty of Andy Mabbett’s thoughts after UKGovCamp 2012. Continue reading →

Posted in ideas, local government, open data, tagging, Twitter, Wikipedia | Tagged Anke Holst, beer, Brompton, Dan Slee, Dave Briggs, EdenT, emergency response, flickr, FoI, Freedom of Information, freelance, Glasto for Geeks, Liz Eden, London, London Transport, MabsBrompton, Microsoft, open data, OpenAttribute, Scottevest, social media, Steph Gray, SummerBeth, Terence Eden, trains, twitter, ukgc12, ukgovcamp, unconference, walking, wikipedia | Leave a comment

Transport Scotland/ ScotRail refuse plaque marking Jordanhill Station as subject of one-millionth Wikipedia article

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett is disappointed by Transport Scotland’s response to his suggestion of a plaque to mark Jordanhill station as the subject of Wikipedia’s one-millionth article. Continue reading →

Posted in annoyances, hyperlocal, Wikipedia | Tagged Alemannisch, Arabic, blue plaque, bureaucracy, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, geo:latitude=55.8826, geo:longitude=-4.3246, geotagged, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, latin, million, plaque, Polish, QRpedia, Romanian, Russian, ScotRail, Scottish Transport, Simple English, Spanish, Swedeish, Thai, Transport Scotland, Welsh, wikipedia | 3 Comments

Talking about GLAM, Wikipedia and QRpedia in Amsterdam and Hamburg

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett visited Amsterdam and Hamburg in December 2011, to talk about Wikipedia’s GLAM collaborations and the QRpedia project. Continue reading →

Posted in about me, humour, microformats, Wikipedia | Tagged airports, Amsterdam, ARKive, aviation, banketstaaf, Boom Chicago, broodje kroket, buzzard, Copenhagen, Denmark, Fieldfare, flying, Fomes fomentarius, fungi, Germany, gevulde speculaas, GLAMCamp, GLAMWiki, Google Translate, Grey Wagtail, Hamburg, Hamburgmuseum, Hindi, iGLAMsterdam, kruidnoten, microformats, museums, Netherlands, Peregrine, Peter Weis, QR code, QRpedia, Saggar Maker's Bottom Knocker, Saint Nicholas, Sarah Stierch, Sinterklaas, Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg, stroopwafel, Switzerland, taxonomy:binomial=Fomes_fomentarius, taxonomy:genus=Fomes, taxonomy:vernacular=Buzzard, taxonomy:vernacular=Fieldfare, taxonomy:vernacular=Grey Wagtail, taxonomy:vernacular=Peregrine, taxotagged, Terence Eden, Wikimedia, wikipedia, Zurich | 2 Comments

Extracting contact data from e-mail signatures

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett proposes a simple standard for recording contact data in plain text e-mail sigs. Continue reading →

Posted in annoyances, ideas, microformats, web standards | Tagged email, gmail, google, hcard, idea, metadata, microformat, vcard, vcf | 2 Comments

Open-licensing your images. What it means and how to do it.

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett gives an introduction to the concept of open-licensing images, and explains how you can contribute to the community by open-licensing yours. Continue reading →

Posted in open data, photography, Wikipedia | Tagged CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-SA, copyright, Creative Commons, flickr, free, journalism, King Kong, libre, licence, licensing, Nicholas Monro, open data, open licence, Philip Mould, social media, web, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia | 18 Comments

The BBC’s fundamental misunderstanding of copyright

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Andy Mabbett

The BBC’s response to a complaint by Andy Mabbett shows a fundamental misunderstanding of copyright law. Continue reading →

Posted in annoyances, social media, Twitter | Tagged bbc, copyright, law, photography, TwitPic, twitter | 239 Comments

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About Andy Mabbett

Lightning Talks Strike Twice

Transport Scotland/ ScotRail refuse plaque marking Jordanhill Station as subject of one-millionth Wikipedia article

Talking about GLAM, Wikipedia and QRpedia in Amsterdam and Hamburg

Extracting contact data from e-mail signatures

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