Archive for January, 2012

If you weren’t able to book yourself onto the Birmingham: The Ticket to a Smart Connected City event today. You can follow us via live stream http://civico.me/v/537 and via #SmartBrum

Enjoy!

Final preparations are underway, yes even at

this time of the night, for the first Stakeholder event of 2012 – Birmingham: The Ticket to a Smart Connected City tomorrow.

The event aims to discuss the smart city agenda and key developments in Brum with interactive participation from the audience. Click here to view agenda.

Follow us on Twitter via #SmartBrum

We’ll also be streaming live (with special thanks to @civicolive), watch this space for the link up details!

I came across this event on the Birmingham.gov site yesterday where free bootcamps to help grow your business on the web  were being promoted.

The bootcamps are aimed at:

1) small businesses, freelancers, managers or those in marketing

2) entrepreneurs who has a website

3) anyone who is thinking about launching a website

and will teach you how to:

1) Get ranked on search engines

2) Leverage social media effectively

3) Start selling in key web marketplaces

4) Get the right ecommerce site affordably

These bootcamps have been put on courtesy of the Department of Business Innovation and Skills,  School for Startups, Yell (and others) to help small businesses in the UK and will be held nationally – the Birmingham event will be held on Thursday 19

January 2012.

Please click here for more information and to register.

Yesterday

I came across an online article, thanks to one of our Board Members, where Birmingham was named #19 (out of a possible 45)  of top places to visit in the World, one spot ahead of Space can you believe!

The New York Times noted the city’s array of culinary treats, promoted by the ten-day Birmingham Food Fest which took place in 2011.

Click here to read the full article http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/64228-brum-makes-top-20-must-visit-destinations

Just before Christmas we had an email pop into our Digital Birmingham inbox. It was from somebody who is setting up their own business in Birmingham. They asked us

“I was wondering if Birmingham City Council has a comprehensive list of the city centre postcodes so I could easily upload this to the admin area of my website, so when the customer places an order this will be accepted/rejected depending on the postcode.”