Jon Bounds

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Jon Bounds
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Bounds outside Birmingham Town Hall in December 2001
Born (1975-06-30) 30 June 1975 (age 48)
Other namesBounder[ citation needed ]
Education King Edward VI Grammar School, Aston
Alma mater University of Birmingham
Occupation(s)blogger, freelance social media and multimedia consultant
Known forB:iNS, TwitPanto
SpouseLibby Hayward
Awards
  • "14th Most Influential" in the Birmingham Post Power 50
  • Official Honouree, Webby Awards
Jon Bounds' voice
recorded October 2012
Website www.jonbounds.co.uk

Jon Bounds (born 30 June 1975), is a writer [1] and blogger from Birmingham, England. [2]

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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 11 November 2008 (starting at 11 am), 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 18 December 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 20 December 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]

In 2011 along with Danny Smith, he undertook a trip around all 56 of the surviving pleasure piers in England and Wales. [16] Their book, Pier Review, was published by Summersdale in February 2016. [16] [17]

In the meanwhile, in 2014, Bounds co-authored a book with Birmingham City University lecturers Jon Hickman and Craig Hamilton. Titled 101 Things Birmingham Gave the World, it was published by Paradise Circus. [1]

He now resides in Oxford, [18] where he is standing for election to Oxfordshire County Council as a Labour Party candidate for Abingdon North, in the 2017 local elections. [19]

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  1. 1 2 "101 Things Birmingham Gave The World...including America, Christmas and". Birmingham Mail. 14 December 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Birmingham's bloggers need to 'fill in the gaps'". BBC News. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Bounds' LinkedIn profile
  4. ↑ Lanyado, Benji (4 November 2006). "Birmingham for beginners". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Power 50 – 14. Jon Bounds, Blogger". Birmingham Post. Trinity Mirror Midlands Limited. 15 July 2008. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  6. ↑ "In the frame – Andrew Mitchell, Paul Tilsley, Paul Bassi, Salma Yaqoob, Clive Dutton and Jon Bounds". Birmingham Post. Trinity Mirror Midlands Limited. 9 June 2009. Archived from the original on 13 June 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  7. ↑ Bounds, Jon; et al. (2008). "11-11-11". Archived from the original on 21 June 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  8. ↑ The Cast. "Twitpanto 2009". Birmingham Hippodrome . Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  9. ↑ "Webby Award honour for Birmingham's Twitpanto". Birmingham Post. 15 April 2010. Archived from the original on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  10. ↑ The Cast. "Twitpanto 2010" . Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  11. ↑ Bounds, Jon. "Recently by Jon Bounds". Birmingham Post. Trinity Mirror Midlands Limited. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  12. ↑ "Spaghetti Junction beach". BBC. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  13. ↑ Bounds, Jon (21 January 2013). "A quick city guide to Birmingham". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  14. ↑ Bounds, Jon (25 July 2009). "Jon Bounds on Digbeth, Birmingham's vibrant heart". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  15. ↑ "Julia Gilbert & Jon Bounds". Rhubarb Radio. Archived from the original on 8 July 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  16. 1 2 "BBC Radio 4 – Saturday Live, 19/04/2014". BBC Radio 4. 19 April 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  17. ↑ "Pier Review website". Pier Review. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  18. ↑ "BBC News: Birmingham's bloggers need to fill in the gaps". BBC News. 8 December 2012.
  19. ↑ "Jon Bounds – Oxford Labour". Labour Party – Oxford branch. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
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