About

My official bio
Heather Taylor is a filmmaker, writer and community and social media strategist whose work has been shown and published throughout Europe, Asia and North America. She currently works as BBC’s Corporate Community Manager.

As a filmmaker, she has written commercial narratives, short films and features as well as directing and creating documentaries, social media content and music videos. Heather wrote the screenplay for ‘The Last Thakur’, which premiered at the London Film Festival 2008 & has had its cinematic, television and DVD releases in the UK. Her short documentary Wild West Dream was an official selection for Atlantic Film Festival and the Edmonton International Film Festival. She also produces video, audio, written and social media content for large organisations and start-ups.

She has been a speaker at Reputation Online Live, Media Camp London, Social Media in Business, a roundtable discussion on Customer Service for National Complaints Day and unGeeked Elite Retreat in Toronto. Heather has also run training courses attended by companies including PayPal, Disney, Eurostar, Pepsi, Associated Press, Digital White and Unison.

My not so official bio
After high school, school took me to Calgary and then to Vancouver where I was studying theatre. I left my program and ended up winning a competition through the travel agency Travel Cuts to go to England on the SWAP Program. I was planning to stay a year and that was in 2002! Obviously I’m still here and loving it. Since here I’ve performed my own work throughout Europe, North America and India and have had three collections of poetry published. I’ve had a number of films made including a feature and have found myself working in social media, where I can finally do all the things that I love to do in one job.

I love life and this blog is a reflection of all the things I love to do from travel to eating to festivals to speaking at conferences to meeting new people. Everyday is an adventure so here is my life. Take a look around and say hi when you want to. Welcome everyone!