Archive for the ‘Digital Business’ Category

2010/11 was a busy year for the Digital Birmingham team where we delivered key objectives within our four key working areas; Succeed Economically, Sustainability & Climate Change, Digital Participation & Engagement and Raising the City’s profile, as well as the office move of course! 

Please click on the document below to view our project highlights from 2010/11 and also a snapshot into the 2011/12 priorities.

We thank all of our partners and colleagues for all their support in 2010/11 – we look forward to working together and forging new relationships in the year to come.

Clicking with Customers – Digital Marketing with Yell, Google and James Averdieck
Date: Thursday 3 March 2011
Time: 8.30 – 12.30pm
Cost: FREE!

Yell is launching a series of free digital marketing events across the UK, exclusively for small businesses. The next event is in Birmingham on 3rd March at The Centennial Centre.
For more information and how to book, please click here.

For Businesses only

Interested in Digital Marketing? Or free training for you and your staff? Maybe you’ve never won anything; well this is your chance.

Win a free Digital Marketing Seminar for you and your fellow employees, all you have to do is register your company details. The draw will be conducted in the final week of February 2011. And the winner contacted the same day as the draw, Good Luck!

Click here for more info.

 The organisation ‘We Are Birmingham’ is committed to supporting continuous business and professional development for artists, designer makers and other creative freelancers. In partnership with Business Link West Midlands and Zellig, We Are Birmingham will host five Creative Clinics for creative freelancers in the region. 
For more info click here  http://bit.ly/hqJRC8

Congratulations to Cafelicious on the launch of their website this month http://cafe-licious.com

Do you tag your location?  A recent survey by Microsoft highlights the high percentage of people who still have safety concerns about giving the location of where they are.  However the survey also shows that while the number of services which give you valuable information relative to where you are, such as weather or traffic info. grows, so will the number of people who realise its value. location-based-survey_usage_and_perceps_exec_sum

Safer Internet Day is organised by INSAFE in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. Each year hundreds of events are organised to raise awareness about online safety issues.

For more information about SID, how to get involved and set up your own event, please click here.

 Please pass on to any journalists, media executives or media students that may be interested in attending this free event in Birmingham.

“It’s better to report the truth, even if some people don’t like it, than to leave some of society’s worst problems festering in the dark”

With Neil Mackay, investigative journalist, film-maker and author

Businesses in Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull are invited to a FREE half day workshop, which will explore business opportunities from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Date – Wednesday 26th Jan 2011 – 9am for 9.30 start – finish 12.30

Venue – Birmingham Central Library Lecture Theatre, Chamberlain Square, B3 3HQ

To book your FREE place please contact Nicol Wagstaff at West Midlands Chambers LLP – 0121 607 1753 or n.wagstaff@wmchambers.co.uk see attached document for full details

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