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Mark Steadman

Mark is a web developer from Birmingham who works for HRO’C Interactive, a prominent digital marketing agency based in Edgbaston. He also works on freelance projects under the Bluemilkshake name.

Mark runs a number of successful web projects including the New Media Junkie, a monthly podcast, aswell as the increasingly popular Dial-a-Rant service.

Mark spends far too much of his time infront of a computer, and if he still lived at home his mother would be forever nagging him to get some fresh air. He has a cat though, so that’s good enough.

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Kevin Rapley

Kevin is a social and digital media expert who by night writes a blog on best practices including how businesses can benefit from adoption of what the social internet has to offer. This is done on a freelance basis through personal site DigiKev.

By day he is a developer, like Mark, at HRO’C Interactive. His strengths are in producing cutting edge graphical user interfaces and building front-end web development solutions with more usability and accessibility knowledge than you could shake a stick at.

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David North

David North is part man part meerkat based in Birmingham, UK. Technical director of HRO’C Interactive he’s involved with various online gubbins and is currently enjoying the new found activity of blogging under the Digital-Rant name.

His particular strengths include creating usable, accessible, inclusive websites, arguing with Mark and Kev, formulating online strategies and eating pork pies.

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Stuart Parker

Stuart is a freelance photographer based in Sutton Coldfield. He also works part time at an online learning centre / internet cafe which is situated within the Black Country.

He is keen to develop a community of local bloggers (Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth and Lichfield) to realise the potential of the latest internet technologies, benefit from them and share them. 

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Christopher Woods

Christopher Woods is a 20something student, living and working in and around Birmingham. He’s not entirely sure why Birmingham ‘clicks’ with him like it does, maybe it’s because it’s the next closest thing to his home town.

Either way, Christopher feels right at home in Brum, and he thinks that the UK’s second city gets an unfairly bad reputation from others. So, he’s on his own little mission to right the wrongs and reveal things about Birmingham that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.

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Clare Edwards

Founder of the Gigbeth Festival and former music co-ordinator with the West Midlands Learning and Skills Council, Clare has worked with many music organisations both in the public and private sectors and recently became the first representative of the training and recruitment sector to scoop the prestigious title of Birmingham Young Professional of the Year.