Equity Punk & Crowdfunding
I am now the proud owner of a share in Scotland’s hippest Brewery. BrewDog is a brewery located in the north of Scotland and they recently launched an online “crowdfunding” scheme selling shares to raise £250,000 of equity.
Crowdfunding is not a new concept but one that has flourished under the Internet and in particular, the [...]
Blogging and tweeting to election victory
The next general election in the UK hasn’t been announced yet but we know it will be sometime before May this year and the various parties have begun the year in earnest. But what effect will the internet have on the election?
A recent post on one of my favourite blogs (BBC dot.life) was discussing the [...]
SNP iPhone App
An article in today’s Guardian discusses the new iPhone app released by the SNP (Scottish National Party) for party activists. It sound’s a bit Big Brother as it basically links in to the ‘Activate’ database which “records the identity, voting intentions and basic opinions of every voter in Scotland, allowing campaigners to target people during [...]
Scottish Labour Party and business
To start with, I like how easy it is seems to find out information on where the Scottish Labour Party stand on business. From the home page of their website, it two simple clicks What We Believe>Economy and you’re there.
Their opening gambit is that they are “working hard to deliver jobs, skills and a sustainable [...]
Politics and business in Scotland
With a UK general election coming up, probably in May 2010, I’ve started thinking about what the political parties currently stand for and because of the industry I’m involved in, wondering where they stand with regards to business and economic development. You’d think that because of the press coverage given to the “credit crunch” over [...]
First post
So finally my site is complete.
I bought a wordpress package from GoDaddy that included domain and hosting. It looks at first glance like a good system if you have no coding experience but I actualy found it quite restrictive and even though I’m using a template and only managed to get the layout looking like [...]