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Herewith

some of the things I have been ‘working’ on …

in between renovating my old house, mainly making it look as old as it is and tending to my small garden, it shrunk during the 1980s, got smaller still in the noughties and now is just too small

and a little bit of nothing during lockdown …

Crikey … you are not so busy that you have time to keep your website up to date?

No, not really … this is very much ex post facto

I know that most people cannot keep their website up to the minute unless their business model depends entirely on it. If that is what you want to do – rely on your website for business, I can probably help you monetise it, make sure it is designed strictly around your proposition (without distractions) and looks the part. I can also help with marshalling your existing design assets or creating new ones, perhaps (if your budget extends to it) the creation of new assets and use video creatively to engage your audience.

Some recent projects are not at all recent

but its only recently I got around to publishing them

  • Fun with Story Maps
    Story maps are a useful addition to the mapping toolkit. The ESRI product allows anyone with a modicum of patience to create dynamic or static map based presentations, with considerable ease. With tools…
  • Places for everyone
    For the last couple of years I have been supporting Crispin Hayes Associates / Cycle Path Services on a locally-based walking and wheeling project initiated by near neighbours Spott Community Association. Places for…
  • Nature Conservation and Other Activities may not be compatible
    Green Blue Spaces
    A report for Sustaining Dunbar – prepared by Philip Immirzi – GET THE POINT LTD – March 2021 FINAL “Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything…
  • Video Projects
    I have been using creative techniques, using digital imagery, simple animation and video for consultancy projects ever since I started using the internet for publishing everything and anything.
  • How walkable and cycleable is East Lothian?
    It depends. The following map shows some illustrative isochrones (a travel time concept similar to isodistance) evaluated using Travel Time’s (TT) app for QGIS. The layers were simplified for web display when imported into ArcGis.
  • Recording Local History – the 4th Statistical Account 2.0
    Last summer I did a project with the good folk of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society to revamp the East Lothian Fourth Statistical Account website. I had previously made the…
  • Companies are exploiting failures of the market
    Where companies are exploiting the failures of the market in which they operate, where consumer choice is inhibited by deliberately complex pricing structures, we must set the market right. So said Theresa May at the Tory party conference in 2016. In 2016 I picked up a short consultancy contract with Cambium for Citizens Advice Scotland to report on business models that companies use in regulated markets that alleviate or exacerbate the so-called Poverty Premium.
  • From Free to Infinity – How much does a Website Cost?
    More than a long piece of string? This answer is of course: “it depends” Basically the more you expect from your website project, the wider the range of features and functions, the more…
  • Our Locality How Refreshing
    When we first setup the ourlocality network we had global ambitions. This of course didn’t happen. What did happen though was gratifying all the same. After 5 years of operation, we are on…
  • Zero Waste Town Update
    I’ve spent the last few days doing a rapid induction and handover of the Zero Waste Town project. It was not that long ago in August that I gave a short presentation to an…

So …

if you have a stalled project that needs a rapid reboot, an overhaul, or re-orientating, want something done yesterday …

… Get in touch with me …

… project killing advice also available too if you need to close something down tidily without losing your hair.