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Archive for May, 2010

Silver Surfers Day – Friday 21 May 2010 18/05/2010

Silver Surfers’ Day is the biggest, national campaign to promote use of digital technologies by older people. It is run by Digital Unite and was started in 2002, this is the ninth annual event.

On Silver Surfers’ Day Digital Unite support people and organisations all over the UK to open their doors and give local older people a taste of what the digital world has to offer them at a Silver Surfers’ Day Event.

Anyone can become an Event Holder – if you’re already working with older people, if you are passionate about supporting them to be digitally literate, then this is an event for you!

For more information and to find an event near you, please go to the Digital Unite webpage.

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Find it in Birmingham Launches Tomorrow! 12/05/2010

 

Officially launches on Thursday 13 May 2010!

It is a new Working Neighbourhood Fund/ Birmingham City Council project which aims to support the local small business community by making opportunities to supply the City Council, our suppliers and partner organisations more visibly.

When buying goods in future, Birmingham City Council Directorates will now be using this free web-based service to source goods and services that cannot be sourced from existing supplier contracts.

Businesses and suppliers can sign up and register for free for access to local contracts, support, networking events, seminars, and job opportunities, helping you to stay ahead, get noticed and more importantly win bigger and better contracts for your business.

Register at www.finditinbirmingham.com.

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Vote now for your favourite online campaign 11/05/2010

The poll for the Best Online CampaignThe Ninth Midlands Media Awards, taking place at the ICC, Birmingham next Thursday, 13th May are now up at the Birmingham City Council Newsroom site.

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Top level outcome Council elections 10/05/2010

Top level outcomes on how how the election will effect Birmingham City Council.

Council seats won were: Labour 20, Conservative 11, Lib Dem 8, Respect 1

Total on council is now Conservative 45, Labour 41, Lib Dem 31 and Respect 3 

No doubt there will be national focus on Birmingham who have been running as a leadership of an alliance of two parties (Con & Lib Dem) for some time now.  

Watch this space… 

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Who has run the best Online Campaign of the Year? 05/05/2010

The Ninth Midlands Media Awards are taking place at the ICC, Birmingham next Thursday, 13th May.

This will be the second year that Birmingham City Council have sponsored the Online Campaign award which will be decided by public vote again this year.  This award recognises an “individual or group that has used social media tools to make a difference” and with that description I figure that we ought to have a whole heap of hopefuls vying for the prize.

Last year’s winner was Donato Esposito with his Black Country version of Facebook and it’s good to see that the group is still going strong with over 33,000 members as of today.

Nominations are now open, but be quick as you only have until Friday to make them.

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