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TechCrunch BBC Debate

TechCrunch and the BBC are to hold and event to rationally debate and discuss the issues around the BBC's assets and technology.  Could or should the BBC develop an applications platform? What are the policy issues and implications surrounding this?

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Date: 25 June 2008
Location: BBC Broadcasting House, UK

Tech Crunch Pitch - The Techcrunch Summer Event

TechCrunch UK will be holding a startup pitch competition on July 10th in Soho, London, entitled “TechCrunch Pitch!”. It's a stripped down, "bare essentials" event. Just fast pitches from startups and networking.

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Date: 10 July 2008
Location: St Anne's Church, UK

Press Releases From Hell & How to Fix Them (Examples, Not Theory) 2nd Expanded Edition

Topic: 
marketing
media
pr
Publisher: 
MarketingSherpa

Learn how to improve your press releases the easy way -- by reviewing 12 before-and-after examples of typical bad releases that are radically rewritten by an expert. Includes b-to-b, high-tech, and "no news" PR; plus, tips on email pitches that work.

Most press releases stink. The average journalist gets 250-500 press releases a day via email, mail, and the wire services. They trash 80% immediately, skim-and-trash 18%, and maybe contact 2% to write a story.

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12 June 2008 by Deirdre Molloy

Visual Web Convention

The Visual Web Convention brings together 4 conferences all addressing the next-gen Web. You can book day passes or access-all-areas AAA VIP passes AND individual event passes on this site.

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Date: 9 July 2008
Location: RIBA, UK

Media City Party

Media City UK is providing the Northwest media, marketing and digital community with its first chance to take a look inside the £1.5billion Salford Quays development.  The open door event will feature stand-up comic John Bishop The open door event featuring stand-up comic John Bishop and DJ client Boon is to be held at the Media City Studios, Pie Factory from 6pm to 10pm on Friday 20th June.

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Date: 20 June 2008
Location: Media City Studios, UK

Festival of socially powered media in the post-broadcast era

Over the 2nd and 3rd of July the 2gether08 festival in London will look at how ideas and popular technology interact. The event is a forum that looks at improving our lives through digital media. Those presenting or developing ideas in the sessions at 2gether08 can take advantage of potential investment from 4IP’s £50 million fund.

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11 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Digital skills shortage: pure economics?

At Chinwag we’ve been chatting about the skills shortage in digital for some time. We did a survey on the topic too at the end of 2007 to find out exactly how digital was faring. The results were quite worrying.

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10 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Internet Statistics Compendium

Topic: 
marketing
media
socialmedia
advertising
branding
mobile
usability
technology
search
Publisher: 
e-consultancy.com

A comprehensive compilation of internet statistics and online market research with data, facts, charts, and figures.

Our latest version contains numerous updates including new data on social media, blogging, email, search marketing and mobile.

The guide has been collated from information available to the public, which we have aggregated together in one place to help you quickly find the internet statistics you need, to help make your pitch or internal report up to date.

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8 June 2008 by Sam Michel

BBC News Interactive moves centre-stage

In the words of Pete Clifton, the BBC’s head of News Interactive: “Online now drives tv content”.

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6 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

MeasurementCamp III: This time it's frameworks

Now on it's third installment, I finally managed to escape the office for a couple of hours to attend Measurement Camp III. Sadly, I was concentrating too much to take much in the way of notes, but various people have promised to write up the information on the Measurement Camp wiki, under pain of Will getting grumpy ;-)

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6 June 2008 by Sam Michel

Journalists tooling-up for the instant web

Has Video Killed the Blogging Star? This was the question posed by the 4 o’clock session at this week’s Social Media Influence conference in London.

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6 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

365 friends: It's the year of the geek

God bless my parents. Heaven knows how they coped. I was a right rotter in my teens. All loud music, piercings and dyed blacker than black hair. My music was their biggest bug bear. “Like a fire engine in a tumble dryer” was how my dad described the racket emanating from my pit.

Fast forward to today and the generation gap has slowly disappeared.

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6 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

AOP: Making Video Work For You

An informative session, using illustrative examples, to bring publishers up to speed with incorporating video content.

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Date: 18 June 2008
Location: Blue Fin Building, UK

Channel 4 marries learning with social media


Channel 4’s promise? To strengthen their connection with young audiences by embracing mulitple platforms and devoting £6 million of their budget to higher risk projects.

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3 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Pics and audio from Chinwag Live: Micro Media Maze

Everything went micro, at the latest Chinwag Live event, Micro Media Maze. Well, that's not including the panel who, by all accounts, had a lot to say for themselves.

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3 June 2008 by Sam Michel