Archive for the ‘Digital City’ Category

It’s Adult Learner’s Week from 14 – 20 May 2011!

If you are looking at tracing your family history, why not pop along to one of the free taster sessions taking place across various libraries in Birmingham. Click here for more information.

The existing Digital Birmingham Executive Board came to a formal close in March 2011.

With DB’s strategic move into the Development Directorate of the Council, a newly devised and closely defined Management Board, which will be chaired by the Deputy Leader and 11 non BCC members, is currently being recruited for. This Board will meet quarterly to support Digital Birmingham in the strategic delivery of its programme along with a wider Stakeholder Group (which all the existing Executive Board members have been invited to be part of) which meets twice yearly.

For those who attended the last Board meeting, here’s a moment we managed to capture….

The DB Executive Board Meeting on 16 March 2011

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.

‘Say It Online’ has been working with a diverse group of Birmingham’s resident families, sending them out to local arts & cultural activities, then asking them to document their experiences about Birmingham online.Celebrate these experiences with the ‘Say it Online’ Awards Show at The Studio, Birmingham on Thursday 24 March 2011.

More info at http://www.sayitonline.co.uk/

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.

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

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.

#KittenCamp first launched in London last year and has since developed a massive cult following, we now host regular slots in Soho and Bristol. It seems that word has spread and there’s been quite a bit of online chat about it over the past few months, so much so that we decided to take it on tour and this February we will be landing in Birmingham.

For anyone who hasn’t heard, #KittenCamp is a fun networking evening for web-loving, media types to chat memes, drink beer and generally share some kitten love.

On Tuesday 22 February #KittenCamp will be at The Victoria Pub in Birmingham city centre. Speakers include Myles Mcleod, Animation Writer and Director of The Brothers McLeod and David Edmundson-Bird, Director of Digital Marketing Communications at Manchester Met University, coming along to show attendees some fun things + Chris Quigley, Director of Rubber Republic dressed as a giant cat and chatting about the latest internet memes and viral trends!

For more info and how to book, visit the eventbrite bookings page.