Alongside the main Shift-Time Festival we're running a project to get Shrewsbury and the surrounding area blogging. We want people to use the festival to experiment with all sorts of "social media" services be they weblogs, photo and video sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube or Twitter. The end result, we hope, is to give Shrewsbury the tools to talk to itself about things that matter, whatever they may be.

This blog will act as a hub, collecting and linking to online activity that is either relevant to the festival or Shrewsbury in general, and posting things to to help and inspire you to blog about Shift-Time.

So get involved by setting up a blog or sharing your photos and videos online and let us know what you're up to so we can mention it on the blog.

Get in touch

by Pete Ashton

This page is for contacting the Shift-Time Blogging Project. If you need to get in touch with the festival itself please call the Info Line on 0345 678 9000 or visit the Shift-Time website.

The Shift Time Blogging Project is managed by Rebecca Owen and Pete Ashton. To keep things simple we’d prefer it if you contacted us via email on shifttimeblogging@gmail.com.

If you’re doing something significant (like a serious of blog posts or a gallery of photos) related to the project then we’d love to hear from you in person, but you don’t need to tell us about every video you upload or blog post you write. We’ll be tracking the Internet for mentions of Shift-Time and will probably come across your work automagically.

For example, we’ll be looking for photos tagged shifttime on Flickr here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/shifttime

Twitter posts that include the hashtag #shiftime will be monitored here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23shifttime

YouTube videos with the shifttime tag will pop up here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shifttime&search=tag

And we’ll be tracking blog posts that mention “shift time” using this Google search:
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=shifttime&scoring=d

The best and most interesting stuff we find will be mentioned and link to from the Shift-Time blog.