News Archive
February 1st, 2010
And more gearing up, as our founding director Sarah Turnernow joins the DSC team full time.
January 4th, 2010
As we announced in the Autumn, our good friend Matthew Shorter has joined us our fourth director and is full time with us from today!
December 3rd, 2009
We're delighted to announce that we're going to be working with the BBC's Future Media & Technology department, undertaking a piece of work looking at the potential role of social media in the organisation's accountability to its audience.
December 2nd
More exciting news: we've been commissioned by London's South Bank Centre to run a series of workshops looking at how digital media can enhance the centre's offering.
December 1st, 2009
Last year, we worked with our friends at the Royal Opera House on the conception of a composition competition for kids and young people, with the aim of creating a new fanfare for the House. Well, that competition, run in collaboration with music educational specialists NUMU, is now launched.
November 16th, 2009
DS co-founder Sarah Turner is now working with the team in addition to her work with UK Trade & Investment. More about it on the blog.
November 15th, 2009
We've been closely involved with Save the Children and London-based agency Airlock in the conception and design of the EVERY ONE campaign website, about which we've blogged.
September 24th, 2009
We're delighted to announce that our old friend Matthew Shorterwill be joining us as our fourth director at the beginning of 2010. Look out for more details on Matthew on the site over the next few months.
September 18th, 2009
Justin and Simon have returned from three day solid of social media training and awareness raising for BBC Scotland in their fabulous Glasgow offices. We'll be blogging it soon.
July 6th, 2009
Our work with Save the Children takes on a new dimension as we help to plot out the social media iteration of a major upcoming initiative. More news as it happens.
June 17th
We've delivered a pretty major paper to our former colleagues at BBC Audio & Music Interactive, a feasibility about which we're afraid we have to keep schtumm at this point...
June 15th
We've taken on further work with the City of London, assessing the overlaps between the development of their website and intranet.
June 1st, 2009
In a pretty new area of interest for us, we've begun working with Barchester Care Homes, looking at the potential role of social media in the care home sector.
May 30th, 2009
We're delighted that we're going to be working with our good friends at Think Again Media on building a website for Southwark Music Services.
May 8th, 2009
We've been asked by BBC Training and Development to run some further social media training sessions, this time up in Glasgow. We'll be running them in mid-September and will report back afterwards.
May 1st, 2009
Simon & Justin have contributed an adaptation of their presentation/essay The Trouble with Poetry to After The Crunch, an insightful collection of essays looking at the impact of the financial crisis on the creative industries.
April 30th, 2009
Justin and Simon ran the first of three training sessions for producers from BBC Radios 1, 2, 6music and 1Xtra looking at the impact of cutting edge media tech on the business of radio and music.
20th April, 2009
Two new clients! We're delighted to announce we're going to be working with both Save the Children and Creative Partnerships this Summer. More details soon.
April 6th, 2009
We ran a repeat of our half day Marketing in the Digital Age workshop for BBC production staff.
11th March, 2009
Simon spoke today on a panel discussion put on by Punch Records at Symphony Hall in Birmingham. Tuned On, chaired by the University of Westminster's Mykaell Riley, looked at a wide range of issues facing music makers in the digital age.
10th March, 2009
Simon and Justin hosted the latest in the BBC Training & Development-sponsored series of Social Media workshops. Jem Stone, Nick Reynolds and the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones led the audience through a series of presentations, Q&As and hands on exercises looking at the tricky area of blogging on behalf of, or within, the BBC.
8th March, 2009
On March 5th, Justin and Simon did a presentation to IT4Arts, the arts ‘wing’ of the IT Livery Company. The Trouble with Poetry took a wide-ranging look at the constant interplay between the art (and the business of art) and intellectual property rights. We’ve blogged much of the presentation.We've blogged the whole presentation. We've blogged the afternoon, in brief.
2nd March, 2009
More work in our series of Social Media workshops for the BBC. Capturing Conversations looked at practical ways to incorporate the public conversation on the web into broadcast - and especially into radio. The session was hosted by Jem Stone, and featured a presentation by the excellent Ros Atkins from the World Service's World Have Your Say show as well as a guide to some specific tools by Roo Reynolds.
February 20th, 2009
As part of our ongoing series of social media training sessions for the BBC, we ran a repeat of Right Tool for the Right Job; once again, Roo Reynolds gave a great presentation, and was joined this tim by the Natural History Unit's Paul Deane, who discussed some of the social software activity he'd been responsible for on last year's Big Cat Live.
February 13th, 2009
Two bits of exiting news for us. Our old friend John Kieffer is joining us as an associate and we're going to working with John on an important project with Glyndebourne, helping them scope out the development of their digital offering.
January 29th, 2009
We're delighted to announce the launch of the new London Sinfonietta website on which Justin worked with our good friends at Avco. Justin's blogged about it.
December 16th, 2008
We led number 2 in our season of social media workshops for BBC Training & Development, with Jem Stone doing an extremely impressive 50 minute presentation and then leading a highly entertaining - and inspiring - panel discussion. We'll blog about it imminently!
December 10th, 2008
We led the first in a season of social media workshops for BBC Training & Development, with Roo Reynolds from Vision Multiplatform talking delegates through the principles of the media and Rowan Kerek talking about her experience of running Collective's online community for five years. There's a bit detail on our blog here.
December 1st, 2008
Two pieces of news about website launches in which we've had a hand. Today sees the official launch of the City of London's Visit the City site, a comprehensive guide for visitors to the oldest part of London - the Square Mile. We've been working closely with the City in delivering this site, not least engaging them in a thorough User-Centred Design approach to re-designing the homepage and several key areas.
And Justin has designed and built a micro-site for the publication of Sir Ken Robinson's forthcoming book The Element.
November 3rd, 2008
It had to happen: Simon & Justin have started up a Double Shot blog here, keeping track of pretty much anything that interests us professionally.
September 5th, 2008
We've been engaged by London's City Fringe Partnership to help them take a look at the requirement's for next year's Coutts London Jewellery Week website.
September 3rd, 2008
We're delighted that our associate and good friend Justin has agreed to join us as a director at Double Shot. Whether that makes the 'double' a 'triple' is a moot point... But our name's probably as caffeinated as necessary for now!
September 1st, 2008
Simon & Justin delivered three workshops to the MusicLeader/Inset conference at the University of Salford. Talking to music education professionals, we discussed the kinds of technologies being used by kids right now - and ways they can be "subverted" to a music learning agenda!
August 6th, 2008
We're delighted to have been taken on by the BBC's Training & Development team to run a series of workshops for staff through the Autumn looking at the latest developments in online technology and their applications for BBC production staff.
August 1st
In addition to the workshops we'll be running in the Autumn for the Royal Opera House, we're pleased to announce that we're helping the House develop on-screen programme notes for the online video of this September's Don Giovanni revival.
July 7th, 2008
A real moment of pride for us: the City of London have engaged Justin & Simon to consult on the redevelopment of their website!
June 26th, 2008
Simon and Justin have been engaged by the Royal Opera House to lead a series of workshops around the House's potential activities in the digital media world. More details as they emerge.
May 25th, 2008
Justin has been asked by the Radio Academy to speak at the Specialist Music 2008 Conference, hosted by Radio 1's Huw Stephens. Justin will be talking on the Tomorrow's World Panel about the impact of new technologies on the marketing, distribution and monetising of specialist music.
May 20th, 2008
Simon has been commissioned by Outline Productions to help them create a fully-fledged digital strategy. He'll be working with them throughout the early Summer.
April 21st, 2008
Simon and Justin have completed an exhaustive half-day workshop with the senior management of London's Barbican Centre, introducing them to the lastest in tech and media developments and their implications for the the Barbican's activities.
April 3rd, 2008
Simon has completed a piece of work for the highly successful London-based TV production house Outline Productions, helping them flesh out a large-scale TV proposition with some cutting edge interactive ideas. We're not allowed to tell you any more than that at present, but watch this space!
April 2nd, 2008
Another great addition to our wider "virtual team"! The hugely talented interaction designer Paul Finn has joined us as one of our associates, greatly adding to our skills base. A typography fanatic and an advocate of strong web accessibility and usability, Paul has over ten years' experience in the field.
March 13th, 2008
Simon and Justin have been asked to provide a media technology workshop to the senior management of the Barbican arts centre in London, taking them through some of the latest developments in the sector and the implications for the organisation.
March 1st, 2008
We're delighted to announce that we'll be working closely over the coming months with our good friend Justin Spooner. Justin is a genuine polymath: a web designer & developer, musician & composer and, above all, a great thinker and communicator. Justin recently left the BBC, where he has been Interactive Editor for Radio 3 since 2000.
January 3rd, 2008
Simon has been asked to present a series of workshops and demonstrations at the music education conference Music Learning Live at the Sage in Gateshead, later this month. We look forward to bringing you some reports from there.