Posts Tagged ‘BIS’

Complimentary bootcamps to help grow your business 13/01/2012

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.

Can accurate digital comparisons ever be made? 11/09/2009

Everyone is different, DNA and fingerprints is the scientific evidence of this, emotions and reactions is hormonal proof. Nature versus nurture adds to the debate, is someone born a certain way or does where they live and how they are raised the real reason for their actions?

Digital Britain logo

Digital Britain logo

Comparisons are difficult to make in any area of life, whether it be people, communities and in this case, countries. BIS and DCMS released the Digital Britain Full Report on 16th June 2009, now the Digital Britain forum enables the central government team responsible for delivering the report to challenge press stories, and peers queries about the details of the report and the way it will be implemented. A particularly interesting post appeared on Tuesday this week……

More – Can accurate digital comparisons ever be made?

Research – friend or foe? 06/08/2009

As the person within the team whose responsibility it is to carry out desk based research, I thought it is about time to share with you what I find, and find useful, regarding the digital agenda.

I am not an expert or even a researcher by trade – but I enjoy looking, have quite a lot of luck at finding useful material and my colleagues have cottoned on to this fact (and it is in my job description!).

More – Research – friend or foe?

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