Last week, I went to Let’s Get Real in Bristol – a conference organised by Culture24.

Cogapp ran a Talk Table, alongside other interesting people from the culture and digital sector (full list here), and I wanted to share some of the questions I was asked (mostly about mobile) and the answers I gave, as well as mention some of the work we’ve done with mobile devices.

Me in action

Our latest blog post is by Andrea Fallas, Assistant Producer.

Online Engagement was the flavour of this year’s British Science Association Science Communication Conference. I was lucky enough to catch the second day, which started with a séance led by Sue Nelson where Vicky Reeves and Shane McCracken peered into their crystal balls to talk about the Future of Online. As I looked around the room it struck me that this future seemed rather imminent: almost every other person was busily tweeting or blogging away on a laptop or smartphone and as the main discussion began a simultaneous, silent conversation was starting to emerge from the ether, held together by the thread of the #sc2011 hashtag.

A last burst of sunny warmth before the trees start shedding their leaves. Must be time for dConstruct at Brighton Dome, the ‘one day conference for people designing and building the latest generation of web applications,’ from our friends at Clearleft. Both our Producer Sam Wander, Designer Ollie Aplin and a thousand other geeks all rejected a dose of Vitamin D and attended the one day conference- the theme this year being ‘Design and Creativity.’ Luckily for you - if you weren't there or if you weren't paying attention, Ollie and Sam have both written about their highlights of the day, which I have hopefully intermeshed to create a comprehensive roundup of the days talks, covering topics from brand and design theory to the power of networks, via infographics, typography and musical improvisation.

Last week, I chaired the “All in hand: Working with handheld devices conference”, which took place at the Royal College of Surgeon in London. It included various presentations from small- to large-scale UK museums discussing their experience with mobile interpretation.

Last week before the volcano overshadowed events, Joe Baskerville and I headed over to Denver for Museums and the Web 2010 - a major international conference for Museums in the digital space. The conference is a hub of information from the sector with a series of lectures, workshops, conferences, and presentations all exploring the issues of museums online.

A while ago, Joe and I attended Ignite London. Regular readers of this blog will know that we're big fans of the Pecha Kucha talk format, and given that the Ignite evenings consist of dozens of 5-minute talks with 20 slides each, it was right up our street!

I had volunteered to do a talk about some of Britain's lesser-known historical buildings: sea forts (something I debuted at our second internal Pecha Kucha session last December). You can see my talk in full below (or in a larger format from the Ignite channel on Vimeo).

British Sea Forts by Tristan Roddis from hurryonhome on Vimeo.