Posts Tagged ‘digital’

Following on from Simon’s blog about the Kindle Camp co-hosted by Digital Birmingham, Birmingham City Council’s web team and The New Optimists on 1st June 2011, Birmingham City Council has announced the pilot of a new digital publishing support service for local authors.

This pilot will now offer support to authors who want to publish their books digitally, either by converting their books to ebooks for them, or by teaching them the skills to publish ebooks themselves. The first course in the pilot – ‘ebook in a day: Kindle publishing for beginners’ – will teach all the skills needed to convert a book into an e-book and publish it on Amazon.

‘ebook in a day: Kindle publishing for beginners’, will be held at Birmingham Central Library from 9:30am to 4pm on Saturday 24 September and cost £55.

For more information and how to book your place, please click here.

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

#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.

A new Fab report has been released showing digital engagement with Arts & Culture.  This is the first time this type of information has been collected in the UK.  Well done to Arts & Business, Arts Council and MLA.  Findings show that a whopping 53% of us have used the internet to engage with the arts and cultural sector in the last 12 months digital-engagement-with-arts-culture-nov-2010

Be part of two global hackathons, The International Open Data Hackathon and Random Hacks of Kindness.

A combined Birmingham Open Data Hack Day and RHOK will be held on December 4th, hosted at Faraday Wharf, Birmingham Science Park Aston, Birmingham.

What’s a Global Hackathon?

It’s a free event that brings together developers from all over the world to design and build applications for real-world problems, also know as ‘code sprint’.

You work the way you want to in a hackthon: you can join a global team collaborating across time zones or stay local, working with people in Birmingham.  You can work on a pre-defined problem, or bring your own idea on the day.

What’s Random Hacks of Kindness?

It’s a “hack for humanity”, building applications relating to natural disaster risk and response.

RHOK happens all weekend: it’s the third RHOK event, and Birmingham will be the first RHOK venue ever in the UK.

What’s the International Open Data Hackathon?

It’s about using open public data, to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.

Who else is involved?

Birmingham will collaborate with camps in cities across the world, including Aarhus, Nairobi, Sao Paulo, Chicago, Bangalore, New York, Lusaka, Berlin, Toronto, Bogota, Atlanta, Jakarta, Seattle and Vienna amongst others.

For more information and to book, please click here.

Invitation to Next Generation Business Event  – Connected Companies Make Money
Date: Monday 22 November, 2010
Time: 9.30 – 13.30 – FREE to attend with lunch included
Venue: International Convention Centre, Hall 4

Technology is developing rapidly. Nearly half of our waking hours are spent using media and communications. Broadband is the fourth utility and users’ bandwidth demand grows by 50% each year (Nielsen’s Law).  61% of 15-24 year-olds use social networking…

What is your company doing about this?

If you are a business in Birmingham or the West Midlands conurbation already using email, web sites and the internet and want to find out more about the Government’s approach to Next Generation Access and what this means to your business, then come along to this free morning session and find out how you can:

1) Make better use of technology
2) Obtain the business advantage of fast access
3) Access a global market place
4) Afford the faster connections to enable you to be competitive in a digital age

This event is sponsored by Digital Birmingham, Birmingham & Black Country City Region, Business Birmingham, who are concerned about the area’s digital infrastructure (Digital Districts) and the take-up of broadband by businesses.  They are convinced that future business growth will exploit technology and require increasing speed of connection.

To look at the programme and book online, please click here.

The worldwide audience for Birmingham’s Hello Digital week has affirmed it as a huge success and a reinforcement of Birmingham’s place on the world digital stage.

In a week which saw Birmingham recognised as one of the world’s ‘Smart21’ intelligent cities by the internationally-renowned Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), Hello Digital gave visitors from the public and private sector a small taste of what is possible with the smart application of digital technologies.

Hello Digital’s three main events – Beyond 2010, Hello Business and the Eurocities KSF Autumn conference – drew over 900 delegates to the International Convention Centre and the Custard Factory in Digbeth to hear keynote speakers including Ian Watmore, the Cabinet Office’s chief operating officer; Alex Hunter, ex-Virgin Media global head of online content; Neelie Kroes, the EU’s vice president and digital agenda commissioner; and Robert Bell, co-founder of the ICF.

To read the full press release, please click here.