Sheffield on Twitter – update seven

June 2009 update Here are this month’s additions to the list of Sheffield people and organisations of interest on  Twitter, with perhaps the most notable being the addition of the council (@SCCPressOffice). The full directory can be found on the Sheffield Twitter users page. Sheffield city council press office – the council’s press office @SCCPressOffice [...]

The day that Sheffield moved

Last weekend’s flash mob/fitness event in Sheffield On Saturday people gathered in Barker’s pool for another flash mob-style event, this time with aim of getting the people of Sheffield moving. It was the unofficial follow-up to The day Sheffield stood still, where over 1,000 people stood motionless in the Peace gardens for five minutes back [...]

Sheffield on Twitter – update five

April 2009 update Here are this month’s additions to the list of Sheffield people and organisations of interest on the microblogging site Twitter. The full directory can be found on the Sheffield Twitter users page. Pete McKee – much-loved Sheffield artist http://twitter.com/PeteMcKee Sensoria – annual festival of music and film http://twitter.com/SensoriaFest Capture my life – [...]

Sheffield on Twitter – January 2009 update

Is Twitter going mainstream in Sheffield? Since the start of 2009, the number of people following this blog on Twitter has increased noticeably. I was planning on commenting on this in a blog post, then of course over the last few days coverage of Twitter seems to have exploded, with mentions from Jonathan Ross, Stephen [...]

Football radio heaven

On the eve of the new football season, BBC Radio Sheffield’s football magazine show returns I’m pretty excited about the new football season. And I’m also greatly anticipating the return of BBC Radio Sheffield’s weeknight Football Heaven radio phone-in show from Monday, with a special programme live from Sheffield Hallam University. The football magazine show [...]

Hallam FM radio phone-ins in the 1990s

Late night listening with Roger Kirk, Roger Phillips, James H. Reeve, Scottie McClue and Mark Meadowcroft BBC2 recently aired the Yorkshire edition of Comedy Map of Britain which included an interview with the impressionist Jon Culshaw, who although originally from Lancashire, I was intrigued to learn cut his teeth on our very own Hallam FM [...]

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