business & innovation

IAB B2B Forum: Maximise your B2B digital strategy for 2009

B2B marketing can be hugely different to consumer facing campaigns, particularly when using online advertising, but it can also be incredibly powerful when used correctly.

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Date: 21 January 2009
Location: IAB, UK

CIMA Bitesize Briefing: Working with China

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Date: 3 February 2009
Location: CIMA, UK

Texas Calling: the Brits are coming

35 digital companies head out to SXSWi in Austin this March on the next Digital Mission. Their presence at the event is highlighted in this new ad featured in SXSW World, the official conference mag.

Here's the ad which is also available to download in various sizes from the Digital Mission press page.

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UK digital firms combat credit crunch with Texas trade tour

Jake Stride from Tactile CRM on the Digital Mission to NYCPRESS RELEASE: London, UK, Thursday 8th January 2009

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Thinking Digital exclusive Chinwag discount

Tyne Bridge reflected in Sage Centre Thinking Digital Conference 09

Thinking Digital is back in Newcastle this coming May. The inaugural 2008 event was a big hit here at Chinwag and beyond.

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50+ lists of digital predictions for 2009

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Chinwag Live: Xmas Futures pics and podcast

Chinwag Live: Xmas Futures, Crystal Balls

Traditionally, at least for the last couple of years, Chinwag Live has finished the year be peering ahead five years into the future of the digital world in a session entitled Xmas Futures, Crystal Balls.

The panel was chaired by Richard Titus (Head of User Experience, BBC Future Media and Technology) and featured Jonathan Mitchener (Futurologist, BT), Simon Collister (Head of Digital, Consumer Practice, Weber Shandwick), Jamie Coomber (Head of Digital Strategy, Profero), Neville Hobson, Ewan Macleod (Founder & Editor, Mobile Industry Review).

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Digital industry confidence bottoms out

1443926963_5a8fdcb03f_m.jpgEach month, the slightly gloomy chore of publishing the Digital Pulse result hits the top of my to do list. Or more accurately, I finally get hassled to the point where I actually manage to get the results on the website.

Since we began compiling this data from a monthly user survey (why not take it now - for each completed survey a donation gets made to WWF) the trend has been a fall in confidence which seemed to accelerate with all the bad financial news.

Despite rosy predictions from the blogosphere and beyond of the digital sector's immunity from the economic traumas, the scale of recession looks like the whole economy is in for quite a kicking.

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Digital Pulse for November 2008

Digital Pulse indices
Digital Pulse: 
108.6
Current Index: 
109.9
6 month Index: 
110.4
Employment Index: 
104.4
Move Jobs Index: 
124.7
Salary Index: 
93.4
Current Confidence Index: 
102.6
Future Confidence Index: 
117.6
After months of falling, the Digital Pulse showed a very slight increase (1.02%) in confidence across the digital industry in November. To borrow a phrase from the stock-market, this could be a dead-cat bounce whilst companies furiously tried to close businesss before the onset of December and the Christmas break. Outlook in current market conditions held ground between October and November with no change, and future expectations falling only slightly.

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NMK: Reducing Risk and Improving Results: Agile

How to avoid the failure, frustration and over-work in web-project work. Produce better projects on budget and on time using Agile techniques.

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Date: 3 March 2009
Location: University of Westminster, UK

WWW 2009

The International World Wide  Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Madrid municipality cordially invite you to participate in the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009) to be held in Madrid, the charming and cosmopolitan Spain´s capital.

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Date: 20 April 2009
Location: palacio municipal de congresos, ES

BIL 2009

BIL loves TED. TED is a great place to sit and listen to interesting ideas. Many of those ideas make it online, and millions get to experience them.

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Date: 7 February 2009
Location: tbc, US

Social Media in Business, 2009

Social Media is now in everyday public use as well as being an integral part of the marketing industry. The world of social media enables ALL your consumers, employees and parties with a vested interest to communicate to thousands within seconds, garner opinion and amplify the “noise” both positively and negatively.

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Date: 23 October 2009
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, UK

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, 2009

Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities. Web 2.0 Expo is co-produced by O'Reilly Media and TechWeb.

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Date: 31 March 2009
Location: Moscone West, UK

Friday (19th) is Webbys Deadline

150px-Webby_Awards.svg.png matt-biddulph-dopplr-webbys.gifThe Webby Awards, think of the Oscars for all things digital hit London last Monday Tuesday (thanks Jonathan for pointing that out, must've been more inebriated than I thought) with an event to highlight the imminent deadline for submissions for 2009. N.B. The deadline is this Fri, 19th December.

An eclectic mix of speakers were invited to participate in a format called, "Figures of Speech", a strictly timed 5-minute spiel on one thing that they found great about the Internet.

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