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Continue reading →: Mozilla Open Leaders: You’re in, now what?The next round (Round 6) of the Mozilla Open Leaders programme is now open to applicants. You can find out more about it and how to apply here. But if you want a more personal read, here’s my experience of the ups and downs for the record… First off, I…
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Continue reading →: How to start a data privacy conversation in your city – a bulletpoint guideThis guide forms the end documentation for my recent Mozilla Open Leaders project which culminated in launching a regular data privacy email for Birmingham, UK. If you want to do this in your city or region, I hope it will be useful info to get you started. And if you…
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Continue reading →: Launching Observed City and learning to work open with Mozilla
Click to view (opens in new tab) – my short demo starts at 3 mins 20. I’m very proud to say that I’ve just graduated as a Mozilla Open Leader. In a nutshell this means that I’ve spent the past 14 weeks learning how to work openly and inclusively as part…
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Continue reading →: Career ideas on a postcard
I guess I should do an update of the post-sabbatical kind since I’m 18 months on from wanting to change my work/life, and six months on from the End of the sabbatical. I haven’t touted for more screen-based writing/editing work (yet) so I’m still figuring out what to do for…
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Continue reading →: DATA stories from Birmingham UKHello, I’m Fiona and I’m starting a regular newsletter called Observed City covering Data privacy, Art, Tech and Activism in Birmingham UK, which forms a lovely D.A.T.A. acronym to keep me on track. I’m a pretty average digital citizen: not particularly techy but I like social networking, and emailing, and searching,…
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Continue reading →: Best of Brum at Spring Fair 2018
I’ve attended various events at the Birmingham NEC over the years – for both journalistic and digital marketing purposes – but none so ginormous as ‘the UK’s largest home and gift show for the retail industry’ held earlier this month. In stats… Spring Fair 2018 featured 14 show sectors, 19 exhibition…
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Continue reading →: Birthday surf and bodyboard in Europe’s Hawaii
It’s true, a few Atlantic Islands claim to be Europe’s Hawaii but Fuerteventura does lay a good claim to it as the north shore has massive waves and really does catch that laidback surfie vibe. This was the whole reason I wanted to go to FV for my 50th –…
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Continue reading →: Fuerteventura crater walk
I don’t know why –I suspect it is something to do with being brought up on 1970s disaster movies – but I love volcanoes and volcanic islands. Visiting Keli Mutu in Flores, Indonesia, in 2002 probably tops the list of my volcanic visits. Since then I’ve mostly been getting…
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Continue reading →: How do you engage a city of a million people on data privacy?
Tl;dr: I’m using my Mozilla Open Leadership Project to find activists, artists, data researchers and other collaborators in Birmingham, UK, to connect and kick-start activity around online privacy and security issues. The aim is to build a collaborative community offering citizens greater digital literacy so they can take charge of…
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Continue reading →: Words from a woman who lived in the wild for six years
I got this book for Christmas as a surprise gift and while personally I don’t even like camping, it has been interesting to live vicariously through someone who has gone off the grid and lived as a pretty wild woman. The story… Miriam, 34, a PE teacher originally from Holland,…
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