business & innovation

Competition: Win Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 Ticket

Social Media

Social Media Marketing and Monitoring 2011 (Mon 19th September) will feature Guardian Tech Editor, Charles Arthur, "Rage Against the X-Factor" Facebook activist, Jon Mortor, Play.com, Vue Cinemas plus a hat-full of case studies and social media marketing examples.

Organisers, Our Social Times, have kindly offered one lucky Chinwagger the chance to win a free conference ticket worth £195.00

Entering the competition could not be easier, simply fill in the form below by Monday 12th September and a ticket could be yours.

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8 August 2011 by Lauren Cotton

The Great Good Debate by 23red

Limited places are available by invitation only on 20 September 2011 at House of St Barnabas, Soho Square, London. If you are interested in finding out more then get in touch with Anna Stone at [email protected]

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Date: 20 September 2011
Location: The House of St Barnabas,, UK

Competition: Win Green Data Centre and Cloud Control Conference Tickets

Green Data Center

The Green Data Centre and Cloud Control Conference (25th - 27th October) will foster an educational environment that aims to allow you to analyse new techniques that will not only help our environment, but also save your organisation time and money.

We're delighted that organisers, GSMI, have offered 2 lucky Chinwaggers the chance to win a free conference ticket worth up to £1290.00.

Entering the competition could not be easier, simply fill in the form below by Tuesday 18th October and a ticket could be yours.

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8 August 2011 by Lauren Cotton

Conversion Conference

A conference is dedicated to anyone wanting to achieve maximum ROI from their online campaigns.

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Date: 30 November 2011
Location: Business Design Centre, UK

In this emerging multi-screen world who controls who?

We face new issues now that TV, Mobile, Tablet, PC, notebook screens are in the home, car, elevator and plane: Who has our attention and for how long? What screen is prime and what is the slave? Are all screens just companions? Who wants control you and you experience? Should control be from your device or in the cloud?

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Date: 15 September 2011
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

Creative Industries and Creative Researchers

Come and meet some of the brightest young researchers from around the South East of England and talk about your mutual interests, ideas and expertise. We will hear from speakers exploring how industry can benefit from engaging with universities and how researchers can work with industry.

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Date: 30 September 2011
Location: American Express Community Stadium, UK

Sponsorship Innovation Summit

What are the biggest challenges you face in developing your sponsorship strategies? Get the latest information and hear global case studies, get inspiration, discover new tools and determine effective strategies at Marketing's Sponsorship Innovation Summit taking place on 29-30 November.

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Date: 29 November 2011
Location: Central London, venue TBC, UK

Social Media for CEOs

Social Media for CEOs is a half-day strategic briefing for senior executives of large organisations. Hosted by a team of experienced social media experts, this unique event offers an end-to-end view of the benefits, and risks, of adopting social media across multiple departments within large organisations.

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Date: 20 September 2011
Location: The Dukes, UK

Like Minds 2011

The UK's thought leading conference, over 3 days in the South West of England, on all things to do with Innovation+Opportunity.

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Date: 19 October 2011
Location: Exeter Conference Centre, UK

Chinwag's School Trips...I mean, Mini Missions...

School Trip

We're known here at Chinwag for our Digital Missions - week long intensive trips to expand and develop small UK digital businesses internationally.

From our experience with Digital Missions, the group environment provides a whole bunch of benefits (more on this below), so we've been considering an exciting new idea, to create 'Mini-Missions'.

Mini-Missions will take advantage of both travelling with a group of UK delegates and the many wonderful conferences, like Picnic and LeWeb, that are currently around, some closer to our shores than others.

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26 July 2011 by Lauren Cotton

Scots in Digital & Advertising Summer Drinks

Given Nation1 started life in Glasgow so sunshine is not something we know much about. But us Scots do know how to party. To celebrate Nation1's second summer in London we are teaming up withMarketing Industry Network (MIN) and fellow Scot and agency man Harry Fowler to get plastered Scottish style, in London.

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Date: 4 August 2011
Location: The Light Bar, Shoreditch, UK

Hanging Up The Telephone?

Switchboard

As more and more companies effectively rip out their telephone lines to replace them with online channels, the accessibility and speed of the Internet seems to be heralded as a more effective way of businesses communicating with their customers.

But once the dial tones fades, will online customer service just shine a light on faults within in a brand?

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25 July 2011 by Diana Yeboah

Chinwag's 4-Step Guide for Brilliant Event Promotion

Crowd

The benefits of hosting and running an event are obvious. In one fail swoop, your influential speakers will draw in guests who could end up being potential partners, consumers or even investors.

Your event will be the toast of the digital town, elevating your brand in a dynamic way. The only drawback? The niggly fact that everybody wants a slice of the events pie. So what to do?

In such an overcrowded market, strategic planning and promotion can see your event being firmly pencilled into the diaries of those that matter. But navigating the choppy waters of promotions can be tricky for even the savviest of marketers, so we've come up with four easy ways to promote your event.

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21 July 2011 by Diana Yeboah

How to...Use Social Media for Business Success

In this workshop Chet Thaker, Central member and social media expert, will be discussing ways to effectively use social media to go from Invisible to Visible online. Come along and share your own social media experiences. Learn the analytics behind Twitter and Facebook and take away a whole list of dos and don'ts.

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Date: 24 August 2011
Location: Central, UK

Silicon Valley Start Ups - how & why we should copy them fast!

LikeOurselves was set up as a UK company. However, co-founders Pardeep Kullar and Steven Lai soon found that it's suicidal not to take the best tips from US companies when building a start-up. Learn about the trials and tribulations Pardeep and Steven faced along the way.

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Date: 3 August 2011
Location: Central, UK