The Cameron & Wilding Blog

Introducing CoSocial: Catalysing Shared Spaces

Neil Cameron, 03 Aug 2010

Being based in LKIC, a London based business incubator, bestows on us an array of benefits including cheap rent, 100Mbit internet, highly scalable office space and the opportunity to collaborate with academics.

The problem with passion in startups

Neil Cameron, 17 Jun 2010

Writing on business is overrun with tired clichés: solution, drill-down, outside-the-box (you can get plenty more at www.bullshitbingo.net). The literature on start-ups and entrepreneurship is no better. One particular word which I have issues with is "passionate".

Everybody has to be passionate nowadays. If you are considering going into business or starting a career, you are sternly advised that you should make sure you are truly passionate about your product / job / industry. It is not enough just to be interested, or to be enthused, or even to be intrigued. No, you must be passionate. Poppycock.

Bigger & Brighter: the New C&W Office

Neil Cameron, 28 May 2010

We’ve just completed our first office move. It was just down the corridor but a vast improvement of where we were. We now have twice the floor space (400 sqft) and four times the amount of light, we even have air conditioning, the luxury!. We think we can comfortably fit six people in the office whilst still leaving space for a meeting area and sofa. We are on course for the next office move at the end of 2010.

The London Drupal Meetup for March, with Dries

Neil Cameron, 06 Apr 2010

The largest Drupal, beer and chat event in London was a tremendous success. We had around 130 people turn up including Dries, the founder of the Drupal project. Dries did a 45 minute Q&A session, talking on a wide range of issues from the imminent release of Drupal 7 to how the future of Drupal could be affected by the uncertain future of MySQL.

We had Drupalers from all areas come along including the leading Drupal agencies of London, Oxford, Manchester and people from IPC media, Dennis Publishing, Cap Gemini, National Strategies and many more organisations.

What Social Media is Right for My Business?

Ben Wilding, 17 Mar 2010

I've recently been researching a proposal for a client's website and have come across something interesting. The sector, a specific field of PR, seems confused as to whether to take up social media or not and who could blame them with the huge choice that is now out there. Hopefully this post will help you decide what social media is appropriate, if at all, to you and/or your company.

What is Social Media?

Keeping in the loop with all things drupal, web and business

Neil Cameron, 08 Mar 2010

Keeping up with what is happening in your sector is necessary in any industry, in one as rapidly changing as open source web technology, it is vital. This task is made even more difficult by the sheer amount and variety of information available to process. I tend to follow a number of channels for different purposes, below is a list of the what keeps me in the loop.

Blogging for your Business

Ben Wilding, 03 Mar 2010

At a great session on 'Effective Marketing in a Changing World', run by Business Link and presented by Grant Leboff, I spoke with a number of SME owners. Many of these owners did not understand, do or even think about blogging. Because they're lazy? No, simply because the world is moving a little too fast for most of us to keep up.

Why I'm bullish about starting an open source web company in the recession

Neil Cameron, 02 Mar 2010

Starting a business at any time requires a certain kind of fortitude; turning away from a secure job (or well paid contracting), putting your pride on the line and investing money that you should be saving for your pension or at least a holiday. Not to mention taking little or no salary for the first few months in return for unending amounts of work. To do all this in the deepest recession for decades, might seem like a grim undertaking.

London Drupal Meetup for January 2010

Neil Cameron, 04 Feb 2010

The first London Drupal meetup of 2010 was a great success. We had around 60 people come down to the Square Pig and spent a good few hours talking shop. There was the usual mix of Drupal old hands, agency folk, developers and business/tech people.

The next event will be February 22nd, to find out more information, visit our meetup page.

Moving into the new offices

Neil Cameron, 01 Feb 2010

Last week we moved into our new home near to Elephant and Castle in London (map). We spent the day building our desks, setting up computers and, most fun of all, port forwarding (although we do have a 100mps connection :-).