We're user experience designers and programmers, and we're proudest of our work in education, youth work, and the third sector.
We deliver our customers' objectives by concentrating on their users and how they think and behave.
We love journeys and stories, we love the separation of presentation and content, and we love engineering delightful user experiences.
No hyperbole here. UKGovCamp - or however it should be capitalised - was fabulous. It had a couple of teeny downsides - I'm now signed up to Twitter, and the attendee demographic was a little WEM for me. But the conversations, the challenges, the contacts, and Clarke in action... A really really good day. Looking forward to next year's already. The focus is on delivery now.
The obligatory Ning network...
So, we've been working on sns apps for some time now. This is the first of the apps for the Phantasmagoria project for Channel 4. Works on MySpace and Bebo - do take a look. We're very proud of the project.
Alterego's web site...
If you'd like to see (a lot of) what we've been doing for the last year... You can now grab Dictum for your Bebo or MySpace profile and show folk what you Would or Would never do...
Dictum's very own website...
One of the perks of being a small company is that you can explore areas just because they're interesting. So we do turn up in odd places, just to see what might spark what. But this conference showed that heritage is so full of possibilities for imaginative use of Internet technologies, I got a little dizzy. Maybe a little because it was mainly new to me, but the level of thinking was top hole, the speakers and discussions excellent. Inspiring. Fabulous. Thanks to the organisers for letting some random geek in to their world.
The conference site
Another marvellous unconference. I love this format - feels much more centered on the attendees than a traditional "stand up and speak" event. Congratulations to Tim Davies for all the set-up work.
Network now at....
A great day of sidealley catchups and ideas for innovating with. Thanks to Steve for the invite - well worth the break from Phantasmagoria work.
2gether
Every now and then a tool comes along which just makes us happy. Wordle is one of those tools, and this is how it looks when you feed it some words about us.
Neontribe at Wordle
Neontribe people in partnership with Norfolk County Council and NFN were awarded the CIPR Gold award for best use of New Media for Bus Stop 39
So, Phantasmagoria is outed. We've been working round use of the Internet as a channel for informal educational outcomes for some time now. We're dead chuffed that Channel 4 are taking that concept a stage further - Phantasmagoria is very oblique in its educational value. We're convinced it's got huge potential as a tool for transformation, and we're looking forward to seeing how it's used.
Read the Guardian on Channel 4's education strategy.
Rupert was a member of Channel 4's panel on the Future Schools strand at BETT. It's nice to get out.
BETT Future Schools