Jon Bounds

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Jon Bounds
File:Jon Bounds.jpg
Bounds outside Birmingham Town Hall
Born (1975-06-30) June 30, 1975 (age 48)
Residence Oxford, England
Other names Bounder[citation needed]
Education King Edward VI Grammar School, Aston
Alma mater University of Birmingham
Occupation blogger, freelance social media and multimedia consultant
Known for B:iNS, TwitPanto
Home town Birmingham
Spouse(s) Libby Hayward
Awards
  • "14th Most Influential" in the Birmingham Post Power 50
  • Official Honouree, Webby Awards
Website www.jonbounds.co.uk

Jon Bounds is a writer [1] and blogger based in Birmingham, England.[2]

Raised in the City's Perry Barr district, he attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Aston.[citation needed]

After working as a technical and commissioning editor for friends of ED,[3] he spent nearly four years working for the BBC as technical co-ordinator of the Public Space at BBC Birmingham, and studied Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. He was Online Editor for the Big Picture project.[citation needed]

Bounds is known for creating a blog called "Birmingham: It's Not Shit" in response to the 2002 bid for Birmingham to become a European City of Culture.[4] In 2012, he told the BBC that the site attracted 10,000 visitors per month.[2] He was listed as the "14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands" in the Birmingham Post's "Power 50" in 2008.[5] and was considered for inclusion again in 2009.[6]

On November 11, 2008 (starting at 11am), Bounds spent eleven hours on Birmingham's number 11 bus route, the outer circle, documenting his journey online, using Twitter, Facebook and a blog, elevenbus.co.uk.[7]The next month, he organised TwitPanto, a pantomime on Twitter, which featured a cast that included Government Minister Tom Watson MP and Guardian writer Jemima Kiss. A further TwitPanto, on December 18, 2009, in which Watson - by then a back-bench MP[citation needed] - again had a part, was hosted by Birmingham Hippodrome[8] and named as an Official Honouree by the Webby Awards.[9] The event ran again on December 20, 2010.[10][better source needed]

Bounds has written for a number of media outlets, including the Birmingham Post,[11] the BBC website,[12]and The Guardian website.[13][14] With Julia Gilbert, he presented a Saturday-morning radio show on Rhubarb Radio.[15][dead link]

In 2011 along with Danny Smith he undertook Pier Review,[16] a trip around all of the surviving pleasure piers in England and Wales for a forthcoming book.

In 2014, Bounds co-authored a book with Birmingham City University lecturers Jon Hickman and Craig Hamilton titled 101 Things Birmingham Gave the World published by Paradise Circus.[1] More recently, he co-authored a book called Pier Review which involved touring the 56 pleasure piers in the UK.[16] It will be published by Summersdale in 2016.[17]

He now resides in Oxford.[18]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Bounds' LinkedIn profile
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[dead link]
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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