business & innovation

Manchester Digtal and GeekUp Christmas Party

A perfect opportunity to see out the year with Manchester's Digital community. So why not bring along your team, clients, friends (or you'd like to make some new ones)!

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Date: 10 December 2009
Location: Pitcher & Piano, UK

VRM Hub Christmas Drinks

We are getting in early for the Christmas drinks rush and will meet on Monday 7th December in The Peer, a friendly pub in South Kensigton, near the King's Road.

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Date: 7 December 2009
Location: The Peer, UK

BAFTA Win For Digital Mission Alumnus Plug-in Media

Plug-in Media Celebrate Their BAFTA winCongratulations to Dom, Seb and Juliet and the crew at Plug-in Media on their win at last night's Children's BAFTA awards held at London's Park Lane Hilton.

Juliet joined the Digital Mission to LA & San Francisco earlier this year as part of the group of 14 companies showcasing the best of the UK's digital talent. Applications for the South by South West interactive trip are still open.

Hosted by favoured kids presenters, Dick'n'Dom the team picked up the Interactive BAFTA, a hefty golden visage, for Big and Small Online produced with Kindle Entertainment for CBeebies. Check out the post-award interview with the winners.

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Oldham Wired City Reconnected Event

Business owners & Freelancers working in creative, digital and ICT businesses: digital media business, graphic designer, creative media designers, freelance software developers, multi media & film media, ICT businesses, E-Learning providers, Animators,

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Date: 28 January 2010
Location: The City Learning Centre,, UK

Talend UK Partner Summit

This is the privileged place to learn all you need to know about the Talend Alliance Program, our Business Model and products.

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Date: 12 January 2009
Location: TBC, UK

2nd Annual BizSpark Christmas Networking Event

The purpose for the night is simple - an opportunity for you to network with fellow BizSparkers, and to continue to build on the sense of community we started to create during the UK BizSpark Summit, earlier this year in September.

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Date: 7 December 2009
Location: Vinopolis, UK

Enterprise Social Media Series

This event explores the impact of Social Media tools and web 2.0 techniques and architecture in the enterprise. Alligning community strategy with business objectives and finding out the latest in the Enterprise Social Software market, standardisation and testing of applications.

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Date: 15 March 2010
Location: Olympia Conference Centre, UK

Mobile Social Media Series

This event is dedicated to Mobile Social Media - how do marketers gain a voice on the conversations taking place on mobile social networks? Are consumers interacting with brands on mobile social networks ?

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Date: 15 March 2010
Location: Olympia Conference Centre, UK

Social TV Series

Social Media has yet to infiltrate users’ television experiences. This conference will examine the current state of social TV, the challenges in developing and implementing social TV experiences, and the future outlook of social TV.

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Date: 16 March 2010
Location: Olympia Conference Centre, UK

IAB Digital Brand Building Course

Run over three days this course will give delegates a comprehensive guide to the key digital 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: 12 July 2010
Location: Internet Advertising Bureau, UK

Social Media Series

A two day conference and exhibition providing a focused platform for the global Social Media industry.

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Date: 15 March 2010
Location: Olympia Conference Centre, 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: 15 January 2010
Location: Internet Advertising Bureau, UK

IAB Digital Foundation Course

Run over three days, the Digital Foundation course will provide you with a comprehensive digital overview.

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Date: 12 January 2010
Location: Internet Advertising Bureau, UK

Incubators - NYC, You're Doing it Right

Digital Mission to NYC - 160 Varick St, IncubatorThere were lots of highlights to this year's Digital Mission to New York, but one that stands out for me was the visit to the NYU:poly Incubator @ 160 Varick Street.

This initiative was announced by New York's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in February of this year, so it's still in its early days, although you wouldn't know it from looking around.

As the Digital Mission companies were given a tour by Micah Kotch, Operations Director and general making-things-happen guy there, the first thing that struck me was the scale of the facility: 16,500-square-foot, a whole floor of the Varick Street building, with over 20 companies, and even more associated indirectly with the incubator. There is everything a start-up business could want, including a receptionist, meeting rooms, mail facilities and so on.

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MDA Mobile App Store Conference

We still have some free spaces and will be pleased if you are able to attend. The conference will feature speakers from Wireless Expertise, Nokia's OVI, Vodafone's Betavine, BrightAI, Juniper Research, Kisky Netmedia and The Mobile Data Association.

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Date: 2 December 2009
Location: Royal Statistical Society, UK