People and Places

Get nosey about the people and places we rate!

Be In It To Win It!

Fabulous prizes and gorgeous goodies for you our lovely readers

Reviews

Does what it says on the tin really, see our bloggers’ quotes on billboards across town

On Our Radar

What’s coming up? Stuff we have hand picked to stimulate all your senses!

Culture Vulture Events

From Cultural Conversations to secret socials with moleskine parties in between…we love to get people together

Home » Archive by Author

Articles by Leanne Buchan

Leanne Buchan

Lego-loving child of the Metropolis, by day I am a project hoarder for Leeds City Council spinning plates and developing ridiculous ideas for the city on the off chance someone will say yes. By night I pimp out a small Lego Tourist for foreign adventures. I'm also currently undertaking 30 new experiences in celebration of my 30th year of being alive. http://funsizeshenanigans.wordpress.com/

Funding the Future of Digital
May 14, 2012 – 3:30 pm | 3 Comments
Funding the Future of Digital

@leannebuchan explores a new regional digital investment/funding scheme which is all encouraging success and reinvestment. What’s not to like…?

Sh! There’s a new breed of creative in Leeds
May 2, 2012 – 4:57 pm | No Comment
Sh! There’s a new breed of creative in Leeds

The digital scene up and down the country is awash with awards, but how many of them actually mean anything to anyone? Leanne Buchan asks someone in the know.

Who loves technology? Future Everything tickets up for grabs.
April 25, 2012 – 8:30 pm | 14 Comments
Who loves technology? Future Everything tickets up for grabs.

We’ve got a fantastic competition with those lovely folk over at Future Everything. You could win a pair of two-day passes to the 2012 conference at Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester, 17/18 May.

Searching for the secrets of SEO at ionSearch
April 20, 2012 – 9:55 am | No Comment
Searching for the secrets of SEO at ionSearch

A new SEO and Search conference was in town this week so @GeorgiaHalston went along to see if it lived up to its hype.

Hanging with The Hang Gang
April 16, 2012 – 4:37 pm | No Comment
Hanging with The Hang Gang

What exactly is ‘design’? Is it the beautiful creative branding and artwork flying out of studios across the north? Is it something more functional providing seamless solutions to daily life? The answer is yes to these and many more definitions. Leanne Buchan went off to meet a new kind of designer carving out a niche in Leeds.

A Local Channel, For Local People?
March 30, 2012 – 10:37 am | 17 Comments
A Local Channel, For Local People?

Leeds is be one of 20 city’s given a licence for new local TV channel, but what does this actually mean? We sent Ben Brady to make sense of the debate.

A Little Bit In Love With Lovebytes
March 26, 2012 – 2:18 pm | 2 Comments
A Little Bit In Love With Lovebytes

This year we’re making a concerted effort to cast our net far and wide and take in the digital scene from Liverpool to Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham and everything in between. Leanne Buchan has ventured south …

Should all online marketing jobs move North?
March 16, 2012 – 12:59 pm | No Comment
Should all online marketing jobs move North?

Well the North is certainly thriving, and there’s plenty of excellent universities churning out fresh new talent, but are we really any match for the capital? We don’t know the answer to this so here’s …

Made North: Review
February 28, 2012 – 10:04 pm | No Comment
Made North: Review

We sent Leanne Buchan over to Liverpool in search of the answer to all our technological ponderings at Made North.

Made North and My Digital Crush
February 16, 2012 – 12:04 pm | One Comment
Made North and My Digital Crush

Leanne Buchan reveals her digital crush and prepares for a shameless display of geek-love at Made North in Liverpool.

A Digital Conference? In the Metropolis?
February 9, 2012 – 11:11 am | 4 Comments
A Digital Conference? In the Metropolis?

We’re throwing Leanne Buchan, our new Digital & Design editor, in at the deep end and tasking her with finding out more about digital across the North, starting on home turf in her Metropolis of Barnsley with the upcoming Digital Barn Conference where Harry Roberts will be speaking.