I received a fab little video this morning from LGTV in which Martha Lane Fox was being interviewed on the benefits of being digitally included, as part of her ‘Race Online’ campaign. Its great to see someone so close to Central Government sending out such powerful messages. Take a look at the full interview here
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
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.
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.
We invite event management companies to tender for the Beyond 2010 event on 20-21 October, at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. The full invitation is below with all the contact details you need.
Another successful event organised by Digital Birmingham saw 50 local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) explore how using social media and web 2.0 could help them stimulate demand.
More - Businesses learn how to stimulate demand using online chatter
2010 brings some exciting news in the heart of Birmingham. Birmingham Science Park Aston announces the development of an innovative ICT village which will bring further development to the newly branded park in the middle of the city centre.
For the past week a sizeable contingent of people from the West Midlands have been in Austin, Texas for South by South West (SXSW), a large festival/trade show for all things interactive. Reports back indicate that the region was punching well above its weight in terms of its presence at the event.
And there’s a fantastic little site popped up to pull together all the content that has been produced while people are over there. Head over to Heart of Austin to see what has been going on
Our news feeds can be subscribed to by clicking on this link. We not only provide information about our own work, but also link to other website and news items from across the city, region and country.
If you want us to pick up on a digital news story of your own, please contact us on digital@birmingham.gov.uk and put NEWS in the subject title.
Recent news stories include:
National Digital Inclusion Champion in Birmingham
Majestic SEO secures investment partner
New rail hub exterior designed
The link to our news site is http://www.digitalbirmingham.co.uk/news. Happy reading!
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