[BNM] [OT] Sunny Pubs in Brighton

Mon May 11 16:36:53 BST 2009

Just for clarity - the Farm's not an accreditation system, it's a bunch
of freelancers meeting up regularly. The only limitations are - you have
to turn up to a few meetings and be freelance/self employed before
you're invited on to the mailing list and to have a profile on the site
(only about a quarter to a third of people on the list have a profile
which is down to personal preference/marketing laziness, not rejection.)
Admittedly, this does self regulate in some ways because you have to
have some confidence in your own levels of competence before you're
willing to go and meet a bunch of fellow professionals and say "I do
this." [1]

The FreelanceAdvisor.co.uk site is looking to have a system doing what
you want, but as I understand it they're still developing exactly what
they want out of it after an earlier beta version. If anyone's really
interested in this happening, I suggest talking to them to pool
resources (best person as an initial contact is probably Michael Rose,
who posts here sometimes) as you'll be able to give each other a leg up.

To be honest, I don't really see the point of having freelancers on a
map apart from for statistical reasons. I can see the point in knowing
if someone is in the same town / county / country as you, but I don't
see how knowing if they're a couple of streets away is going to make any
difference to deciding to collaborate or hire someone. I'd expect that
to be a question of skills & experience.

Cheers

Paul
[1] There are of course problems with this, which is that there are some
bloody brilliant designers and developers out there without high enough
confidence to come and chat about what they do. On the flip side, if
they can't come and talk to some peers about what they do, they're going
to find freelancing difficult anyway due to the client contact side of
the work and may be better off as either contractors (somewhat the same
problem as with freelancing) or in full time work. Anyway, I'll shut up
now before this becomes even more of a digression.

On Mon, 11 May 2009 13:23:42 +0100, "Tim Aldiss" <timaldiss at gmail.com>
said:
> Nice one Luke, and good to bump into you (virtually) again!
> From my experience of agency land right now there is a concerted move
> towards freelance as opposed to fattening up your full time staff and I
> get
> asked a lot if I know people who do this, that and the other. While I
> appreciate accreditation systems like The Farm group have for example it
> would be great if there was a team-agnostic approach to collating
> expertise
> that would allow anyone to browse everyone.
> 
> Brighton has always been a hub for new media but we stand to loose it
> unless
> we become a bit more visible and this would be a great way to start.
> 
> Anyone know how to link profiles to Google Maps? Somewhere where we could
> all have common functions like friend ratings, testimonials, quotes,
> links
> to projects, etc (it's bound to exist already!)
> 
> Cheers again
> 
> Tim
> 
> 2009/5/11 Luke Hay <lukehaysmail at yahoo.co.uk>
> 
> >
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > We're listening.
> > Sounds like a good idea. A kind of map for people new to the area/new to
> > freelancing or even people looking for freelancers to work for them. If
> > anyone would like to put something together we'd be happy to link to it and
> > promote it to new members and people looking at our directory.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Luke
> > Wired Sussex
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Tim Aldiss <timaldiss at gmail.com>
> > To: Brighton New Media <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
> > Cc: Brighton New Media <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, 9 May, 2009 13:37:51
> > Subject: Re: [BNM] [OT] Sunny Pubs in Brighton
> >
> > We could use our most frequent haunts I.e. Werks, Hampton, etc?
> >
> > Brighton needs a more collective presence of new media bods, whether
> > currently in an agency or freelancing. You listening Wired Sussex?!
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On 8 May 2009, at 18:11, "Paul Silver" <paul at paulsilver.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > I have thought about this for the Farm site. Then I thought it was
> > > pretty much a map to houses someone would like to burgle (especially
> > > on
> > > a Wednesday night.) I know a postcode covers a few houses, but
> > > thinking
> > > this did rather put me off the whole idea.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > On Fri, 8 May 2009 17:51:54 +0100, "Tim Aldiss" <timaldiss at gmail.com>
> > > said:
> > >> Reckon we should do the same for freelancers in the area? It'd be
> > >> good to
> > >> put names to places...
> > >> Anyone know if there is a way to link the new Google profiles to
> > >> Google
> > >> maps? Must be.
> > >>
> > >> Just a Friday afternoon thought.
> > >>
> > >> Tim
> > >>
> > >> 2009/5/8 Danny Hope <danny.hope at gmail.com>
> > >>
> > >>> On days like this I find myself wanting a map of all the sunny
> > >>> pubs in
> > >>> Brighton. So I made it.
> > >>>
> > >>> If you know of some good sunny pubs, here's how you can add them
> > >>> to the
> > >>> map:
> > >>>
> > >>> 1. Go to http://icnhz.com/sunnypubs/
> > >>> 2. Add the map you 'My Maps'
> > >>> 3. Search for/find pubs
> > >>> 4. (in the speech bubble info thing) choose 'Save to my maps'
> > >>> 5. Save it to 'Sunny Pubs'
> > >>>
> > >>> Cheers for you help on this important project.
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Danny Hope
> > >>> User Experience Consultant, Brighton (UK)
> > >>> 07595 226 792
> > >>> @yandle
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> Tim Aldiss
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> 
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