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Apps Mixer*

A networking event for people working in, affected by and interested in the emerging apps. Register: http://www.mashupevent.com/apps-mixer Price: £15 + VAT (Includes: beer and pizza)

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Date: 9 February 2010
Location: SUN office, Regis House,, UK

London Net Tuesday - Community Problem Solving

Come discuss a new toolset geared at helping local communities surface issues, find the resources and strategies to address them, and then make change!

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Date: 2 February 2010
Location: Curzon Cinema, UK

Media Playground 2010: Exploring innovation across the digital media sector

Four standalone seminars on: Targeting Technologies, Social Media, Digital Broadcast in a multi-platform World & Mobile Advertising. A showcase of innovation and advertising opportunities from across digital media, to helps delegates understand what opportunities there are and how best to utilise these within a media campaign.

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Date: 3 June 2010
Location: RBS, UK

IAB Research and Strategy Course

Run over one day this course will give delegates a comprehensive guide to the key digital marketing disciplines which when deployed as part of a considered strategy can be used to enhance online brand awareness even in the most competitive of markets.

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Date: 18 March 2010
Location: Internet Advertising Bureau, UK

IAB Metrics and Optimisation Course

This intensive one-day course will introduce you to the importance of web analytics, teach you how to develop a digital ROI strategy, give you access to the latest brand tracking case studies and look at different testing techniques to help you improve website performance.

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Date: 8 March 2010
Location: Internet Advertising Bureau, UK

Social Media Week London - Understanding Social Graph Optimisation - sponsored by Meebo

With so much choice in how consumers tap into to their social graph, how do media and brands reach, connect and influence these networks at scale?

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Date: 1 February 2010
Location: IAB UK, UK

Straight Line Thinking Stops Here

This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film) The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures (watch the video) last year and is culminating in a course, book and research project.

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Date: 16 March 2010
Location: Austin Convention Centtre, US

Digital Mission SXSWi 2010 Companies Announced

Digital Mission to SXSWi 2009Top UK Firms Selected for Prestigious US Digital Mission

PRESS RELEASE: London, UK, Thursday 21st January 2010

Forty of the UK's leading digital SMEs have been selected for the second annual Digital Mission to South by South West interactive (SXSWi), one of the world's leading conferences for interactive media taking place in Austin, Texas from 11-17th March 2010. Established in 1994, the conference provides an opportunity for the Digital Mission companies to attend hundreds of conference sessions and networking events.

The successful companies were chosen from over 120 submissions by an advisory board of industry experts drawn from the UK community including: VC's, export specialists, legal experts, journalist and industry pundits, to take part in the Digital Mission to SXSWi.

The companies selected for the Digital Mission to SXSWi '10 are:

Detailed information and contact details for each company is available from the official Digital Mission website: http://www.digital-mission.org/sxsw10-companies

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Scottish Social Media Dinner

Three of Scotland's most acclaimed digital news editors are to speak about the future of news, showing where mainstream media is heading and how PRs and marketeers can engage with them.

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Date: 28 January 2010
Location: Sloans, UK

Media Camp London 4

This is NOT a BARCAMP - we plan a little before hand, and then tweak on the day as needed. This is an innovative un-conference focussed on: mobile media, web development, usability, search, applications, teaching and educational technology, blogging, branding, PR, advertising new and social media.

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Date: 1 February 2010
Location: SAE Institute, UK

Apps - What's your Strategy?

This event will help people in strategic marcomms roles understand the key challenges with respect to apps and identify the building blocks of an app strategy. mashup* is bringing together several industry experts and specialist developers to help demystify, clarify and explain the issues around the rapidly emerging Apps channel.

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Date: 28 January 2010
Location: Ogilvy UK, UK

The eMeet - Networking for eCommerce professionals

The eMeet is a free to attend networking event, aimed at connecting eCommerce and online professionals who can strengthen and build their network, share ideas and incubate new business projects.

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Date: 27 January 2010
Location: Hill & Knowlton, UK

Augmented Reality mixer*

This network orientated event will start with a 10 minute keynote and then be opened up to 30 second 'stand ups'.

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Date: 14 January 2010
Location: Sun Startup Essentials, UK

UX Lx: User Experience Lisbon

3 days of User Experience Talks and Workshops taking place in Lisbon, Portugal next 12 to 14 May 2010.

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Date: 12 May 2010
Location: FIL Meeting Centre, PT

iPhone Developers Fall Short of Demand

iPhone apps/cupcakes Flickr imageWe all love our iPhone apps. How did we possibly live without them?

There are green ones, dating ones, financial ones and ones that can even teach your kids how to read. Even the free ones can let you do a background check on a blind date and give you a turn at playing God.

So far the number of iPhone apps downloaded is sitting at a mind-blowing 2 billion. We're downloading from the app store at a rate of 6.6 million every day and the market is worth an estimated $2.5 billion US dollars each year. That's quite a hunk of cash.

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