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Fired by Facebook

How to lose your job with FacebookThere are many reasons why the strategic use of social media can advance your career, building your reputation, garnering links with key contacts amongst others.

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ad:tech Beijing 2009

The 5th Interactive Advertising and Digital Marketing Exhibition and Conference in China. In China, the Online Advertising and Digital Marketing platforms can no longer be seen as “New Media” it has entered “Mainstream”. *Grants available for UK companies*

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Date: 17 November 2009
Location: Beijing International Convention Center, CN

CSS Hack Night 2

CSSHackNight 2, an overnight event on Friday August 7th 2009. The event is aimed at designers and developers who can use CSS to change the design of a web site without modifying the source HTML.

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Date: 7 August 2009
Location: Futureworks, UK

2009 BIMA Awards Names Chinwag as Partner

BIMA Awards 2009Chinwag is chuffed to be working with the BIMA crew as social media partner for the 2009 BIMA Awards.

November might seem a way-off, but the deadline to enter is only a few days away. 7th August to be precise. The committee have been hard at work to re-vamp the format including more categories, more transparent judging and important these days, a more affordable event.

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Always On

The seventh annual Summit at Stanford, presented by AlwaysOn and Stanford Technology Ventures Program, is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries.

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Date: 28 July 2009
Location: Stanford University, US

BBC Placements for Grads in the North West

Snow by r.j.wagnerHot on the heels of the digital placement program, news reaches us of another initiative in the North West for recent graduates looking for careers in the interesting world where new media meets TV and radio, North West b.TWEEN TV Platforms.

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Social Media in Business Conference - London May 21 2010

If you are interested in networking with the UK's cream of the crop social media experts, looking for key strategic business insights, answers to organisational challenges you must come along to Social Media in Business '10 where we will host you for the day, and educate you. Use Promo Code: smibwag for 15% discount.

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Date: 21 May 2010
Location: Whittaker House, UK

Expo Grants Announced for eMetrics Washington and ad:tech Beijing

PRESS RELEASE: London, UK, Thursday 23rd July 2009

UK Trade & Investment partners with Chinwag to offer UK digital companies grants for key overseas tradeshows in the USA and China

eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, Washington DC
ad:tech Beijing

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) have appointed Chinwag, the digital community for digital media companies, to deliver grants for UK-based digital SMEs wanting to exhibit at key overseas tradeshows.

The grants, part of the UKTI's Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP), offer funding to support digital SMEs exhibit as part of UK pavilions at eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and ad:tech Beijing, two of the most influential interactive conferences in the global digital calendar.

Chinwag have worked closely with the event organisers to create 'credit-crunch busting' packages that will provide companies with prominent expo booths, marketing support and conference passes at these high profile events. The successful digital SMEs will be featured in the specially created UK Pavilion, ensuring a prominent position and maximising business development opportunities.

The first event is eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit in Washington D.C 21-23rd October 2009 to, with space for up to 8 companies.

This is followed by ad:tech Beijing, 16-19 November 2009.  Up to 12 companies will be able to exhibit at the leading marketing show in China, perhaps even fitting in a little bit of sightseeing along the way.

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The Ultimate Power of Facebook - Webinar

This webinar will uncover: • How to increase ROI by leveraging the power of social media • What the Facebook platform offers to the marketer • Campaigns and engagement models on Facebook • Real life case studies and success stories • How to facilitate and enable new and existing relationships

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Date: 23 July 2009
Location: virtual event, UK

Social Media in Financial Services

Attending Social Media in Financial Services will be a new and different experience for many in the industry. This is a serious business event with serious networking to be done - and where sales, marketing and communication experts can meet to learn and share best practice.

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Date: 13 January 2010
Location: Guoman Tower Hotel, UK

Social Media in Business

Social Media In Business will empower your company to understand the potency of online conversations & more importantly when and how to engage with a meaningful response.

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Date: 23 October 2009
Location: London Venue TBC, UK

Bazaarvoice Social Commerce Summit London 2009

In its second year, Bazaarvoice’s Social Commerce Summit in London is the definitive event for driving Social Commerce Success and ROI. Hosted at Shakespeare’s world-famous Globe Theatre in Central London, the Summit will focus on how “Influential Customers Take Centre Stage.”

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Date: 7 October 2009
Location: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, UK

Social Media Training - Skills Accelerator

Covering everything from the social media landscape, key trends and behaviours to campaign planning and measurement through a combination of case studies and industry knowledge, this course is the ultimate social media ‘how to guide.’

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Date: 10 September 2009
Location: TBC, UK

Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP)

UK Trade & InvestmentThe Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP) is a fund offered by the UK Trade & Investment, that provides grants to help U

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Abandon Normal Devices

Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new festival that welcomes audiences to experience the best in new cinema and media art in a celebration that spills from screens and galleries into the streets and imaginations of the North West.

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Date: 23 September 2009
Location: Various, UK