Jon Bounds

Who is Jon Bounds?

Jon Bounds is a blogger, freelance social media and multimedia consultant and humorist from Birmingham, England.

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

After working as a technical and commissioning editor for friends of ED, 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.

He is perhaps best known for creating the cult website "Birmingham: It's Not Shit"

On 11 November 2008, he 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. 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 - again had a part, was hosted by Birmingham Hippodrome and named as an Official Honouree by the Webby Awards. The event ran again on 20 December 2010.