Freeranging

Art of Freeranging – Workshop slides

17 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment

Here’s the slides from the 12 July 2011 workshop. Thanks to all for making it a sell-out event and for such great feedback. More to come on the sources of inspiration..

Art of Freeranging Workshop Details

22 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment

by Rockjimford in Uncategorized Tags: Events, freeranging, Skills

Here’s the aim/intended outcomes for my first workshop on the Art of Freeranging at the University of Portsmouth on July 12th. Some tickets still available via CIBAS.

Aim

The aim of this workshop is to help you design, develop and succeed in your creative practice.

Outcomes

By the end of the workshop you will:

Have re-evaluated your creative practice to focus on your wider life goals
Know how to identify and work with common challenges shared by many creatively driven people
Understand how the freeranging model is about cultivating your passions, time and energies to work, play and learn
Have learned about your own values and value in competitive and collaborative markets and networks
Have considered ways of supporting yourself and others in their day-to-day creative practice
Established a sustainable short, medium and longer term development plan

Freeranging at the Future Skills Festival

01 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment

by Rockjimford in Uncategorized Tags: Events, freeranging, Skills

I’m delighted to have been invited to facilitate a session on the Art of Freeranging as part of the Future Skills Festival organised by CIBAS in Portsmouth on July 12th. It’s part of a season running June-July, organised by CIBAS for artists and creatives in the south. Events are being hosted at the University of Portsmouth. Tickets are £20 and can be booked online.

I’ll be adding more details here about the session and my approach in the coming weeks in the run up to the event. In meantime here’s some links to other events that are part of the programme starting on 12th June:

Event 1: Future Skills ‘Question Time’

Event 2: The Art of Blogging and Social Media

Event 3: Time Management for Creative People

Event 4: IP and the Internet

Event 5: Build Your Digital Toolkit

Event 6: The Art of Freeranging
Event 7: Upgrade Yourself: Smarter Working for a Digital Age

Future Skills Festival on Tumblr

2010 in review

02 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment

by Rockjimford in Uncategorized

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,700 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 19 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 102 posts. There were 9 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 2mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was February 15th with 52 views. The most popular post that day was Chat Roulette experience.