Team
Mick Fealty
Mick Fealty, like many bloggers of the time, stumbled backwards into blogging and the setting up Slugger O’Toole back in June 2002. A background in high level social research and participatory arts has enabled him to engage directly with the major issues of the day and facilitate a genuine exchange of views.
Mick has worked to build up a successful team that understands what it takes to succeed in the read-write media. With around 24,000 unique visitors per month, Slugger O’Toole enjoys a unique position of influence.
A recent survey of MLAs conducted by Stratagem in association with ComRes, revealed that a massive 96% of them read the blog “regularly” or “occasionally” – the most popular site of this kind in Northern Ireland.
“We’ve always tried to use Slugger as a political asset to democrats in Northern Ireland. It’s very easy to catch politicians straying from the high – and often self-contradictory – standards that we set for them. But catching them being good at what they do is important as well – and Slugger – along with the thousands of engaged and articulate users that visit every day – is the right place to do it.”
Mick’s LinkedIn profile is here.
Paul Evans
Paul Evans is a local democracy practitioner with a long track-record of running e-democracy projects at a local level with a particular focus upon the promotion of local representative democracy. Paul recently promoted the Northern Ireland councillor website project, Councillor.info along with The Slugger Awards and PICamp – the Political Innovation Camp that launched in Belfast in May 2009 and continued as part of NESTA’s Reboot Britain event.
Previously, Paul helped to establish Poptel Technology Ltd in 2002, and was a director of this successful worker co-op web development company until 2007. At Poptel Technology, Paul worked with over 100 clients on projects as diverse as small microsites, large systems integrations and high-end design projects. Poptel Technology was one of the UK’s leading pioneers in the emerging disciplines of accessible web design and usability. He retains a wide range of contacts within the industry and continues to partner leading design and project management companies.
Paul was instrumental in establishing the original New Statesman New Media Awards back in 1998. His LinkedIn profile is here.
We work with…
- Channel 4
- Department of Education (London)
- Northern Ireland Assembly
- Amnesty International UK
- Tomorrow’s Company
- BBC Northern Ireland
- Editorial Intelligence
- Electoral Commission
- Royal Society for the Arts
- NI Human Rights Commission
- Department of Finance & Personnel NI
