This document provides background information on the author's career path and areas of work. It discusses their inspiration from certain people and books. Several examples of projects are described, including community websites for rural areas, event networking, local information sharing, and online discussion spaces. The document also briefly outlines changes over the last two years and plans for the next two years.

1. Hello 2000…..………2002……..2004……………..2006……..…..2007……..… 2008.. Community and network design and facilitation; event design and facilitation

2. My blog as a tag cloud http://www.wordle.com

3. Right let’s go… Background and career ‘path’ Inspiration: people and books Examples of work in industry Changes in last two years Next two years

4. Background and career ‘path’ 1991 ish: BA (hons): Development Studies, UEA 1993 ish – 1997: Media general: events, promotion, production, film runner, market research, towel folder, backpacker 1997 - 2002: GaiaLive.co.uk to grown up web production at UpMyStreet.com 2002 ish: MSc IT: Knowledge: UWE 2003 ish: Full community focus

5. Inspiration: people

6. Inspiration: books

7. Example Title: Ruralnet.org.uk Description: Wordpress MU Distributed community Free sites for all Aggregation at its core Inclusive design process Organisation type: Rural charity

8. Example Title: 2gether08.com Description: Crowdvine, Wordpress, Twitter, Aggregation, vimeo etc. Pre-and-during event networking, collaboration and knowledge sharing to improve event Organisation type: Event organiser and meta community for social innovation

9. Example Title: whereilive.org Description: Drupal www2 tools aggregation Storytelling website for local neighbourhood for local civic engagement Organisation type: Local Council and others

10. Example Title: www.bristolwireless.net Description: Phpwiki (open) Inclusive design process No login Information and discussion around helping local citizens online for free Organisation type: Local community co-operative

11. Example Title: communities.cilip.org Description: Community Server (nearly out of the box) Membership space Public and private areas Peer to peer support Organisational engagement Organisation type: Membership Association

12. Example Title: whowantstobe.co.uk Description: Wordpress Exploring new forms of civic participation for social change Organisation type: Facilitators

13. Example Title: Icanhazcheezburger.com Description: Having fun and sharing silly jokes Common language Regular patterns Voting Creativity Organisation type: Web denizens

14. Changes in last two years

15. Next two years http://icanhascheezburger.com/

16. Next two years

17. Thank you http://www.edmitchell.co.uk [email_address] aka:edmittance http://icanhascheezburger.com/