Archive for June, 2010

Hi All,

This looks like an interesting event if you or your organisation are considering what the benefits or opportunities the Olympic Games 2012 might bring.  Its free on Thurs 1st July – and includes a networking breakfast. http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/bbb6 Click

here to find out more

A one day practical workshop is being presented by the Digital Market Association in partnership with Birmingham City University next week. Making Mobile Marketing Work is a one-day practical workshop demonstrating how to take mobile marketing beyond SMS. It shows you how to use a range of channels to create stimulating, effective and engaging marketing campaigns.

The approach is a practical one with the morning session utilising case studies and live demonstrations presented by both leading brands (including Orange, M&S and DirectGov) and mobile practitioners. The afternoon session will include break-out workshops to put campaign development into practice. Working with industry specialists, each participating company will identify ways the tools can be used to manage clients’ expectations, enhance business profiles and identify the best ways to generate and maintain interest. More – Making Mobile Marketing Work event

Birmingham City University are hosting a one day digital participation seminar on 19th July.

It intends to provide a forum for discussion of the meaning and measurability of Digital Participation, focusing on the three main measurables promoted by the generic viagra Digital Participation Consortium – Reach, Breadth, Depth.

It will include contributions from Ofcom, following publication of their initial statistics bulletin on digital participation. In addition it will hear about the role of the UK Research Council funded Digital Economy Hub at Newcastle University and from the Arts Council and Audiences Central on the experience they have in measuring participation in the arts. More – Measuring the Unmeasurable: Digital Participation Seminar

The Aston Community Festival 2010 is a free for

all event taking place on Sunday 27 June 2010 at Aston Villa Football Club, Witton Lane, Birmingham. B6 from 12pm – 7pm.

The event will host live music, a fun fair, food, face painters and much more.

For more information, please click here.

The Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery are monthly events held to help community and voluntary groups use the social web to benefit their organisations.

The next event will be on Tuesday June 8 at the Studio, 7 Cannon Street, off New Street (B2 5EP).

Digital Birmingham supports these surgeries and have in the past provided advise and support with social media issues.

If you belong to a Birmingham-based community or neighbourhood group or charity please come and join us. You can drop in any time between 5.30pm and 7pm.

To sign up for the event or for further information, please click here.

The surgeries are organised by volunteer members of the Birmingham Bloggers group. Surgeons work as friendly advisors giving informal one-to-one help to show you how to make the best of social media.

You can find out what normally happens at a Social Media

Surgery here.

The Saturday before last, Digital Birmingham were happy to sponsor Andrew McKenzie’s Mapitude day at Aquila TV. This followed on from the successful Hackitude event held there in December last year. Both of these events are based on the idea that if data is released to the public then we will be excited enough by it to create stuff.

Andrew put together a really interesting programme of events over the day, under his strapline of it being a “workshop to develop understanding and practical collaboration between web developers and mappers.” There was one group of people getting excited and making things and another group who were exchanging presentations about mapping.

I wasn’t able to make the event, but speaking to Andrew afterwards he was really enthusiastic about what was achieved. The people getting excited included Chris Taggart of Openly Local and Stuart Harrison of Lichfield – Open Data who focused on the application building, along with Gavin Wray, Michael Grimes and Heidi Blanton who worked on locating the data and constructing the webpage that uses the application to display it.

More – Mapitude: Looking ahead at open, public data