business & innovation

Flag and Bell Pub Crawl

The Flag and Bell IT Pub Crawl is held on the first Tuesday of each month. It is a free, networking event for anyone interested in search engines, the Internet or web technology.

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Date: 5 August 2008
Location: Anchor Pub, UK

Shoreditch Grand Prix

On Sunday 31st August 2008, heroes, helmets and hearts will do battle for the greatest sporting prize in the UK... to be the winner of the Shoreditch Grand Prix. It's a Grand Prix on kiddies fun tricycles and tractors

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Date: 31 August 2008
Location: Shoreditch, UK

Mobile and online publishing feeling the crunch

‘BANK CRASH PROFIT FEARS’ yelled the headline on the Evening Standard news-stand as I passed by the newsagents at lunchtime today.

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Digital Mission companies coming soon...

2234809424_a240d74a0d_m.jpgLike any good web project, it always takes a fraction longer than you think it's going to.

The judging process is now over and the team are beavering away contacting the successful companies. With a bit of luck, a following wind and some fast and furious email activity the official list of successful Digital Mission companies will be released tomorrow.

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Digital Pulse Analysis April-June 2008

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Background

Digital Pulse is a confidence index for the digital industry, reflecting the degree of optimism or pessimism that people working in digital media feel about the industry. It is designed to find out how industry professionals are feeling, how they perceive the current digital business climate, salary conditions and their views on what it’ll be like in 6 months time.

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Effective Project Management Using a Wiki

This workshop on Project Management Using a Wiki will show you how to organize your project on a wik, help your team make the change from trading emails and attachments to gathering, building, and editing information on the wiki.

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Date: 4 September 2008
Location: The Werks, UK

Digital Mission Judgement Day

Piles of applications ready for the advisory board's verdictOK, so it's probably time I caged my inner drama queen, but that shouldn't detract from a very important day in the build-up to the Digital Mission to NYC. Judgement day, of sorts.

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Geek Up Manchester

GeekUp is a community of web designers, web developers, and other tech-minded folk from the North West. The socials take place once a month in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester and are always a lively place to share ideas and spread a little knowledge. Who can attend GeekUp? While the focus for GeekUp is predominately web related anybody involved in the technology industry is more than welcome to attend a GeekUp. The monthly events are free, we just ask that you buy your own beer. For information about Geek Ups and register for Geek Up Manchester visit here.

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Date: 9 September 2008
Location: Rain Bar, UK

Cork Open Coffee

This is a joint OpenCoffee-SohoSolo meet-up in the National Software Centre in Mahon. We are starting this one early at 9am (running until 11). CorkBIC will give a short talk on the services they offer businesses in Cork including SohoSolo and Business Angels Partnership. Coffee and buns kindly sponsored by CorkBIC.

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Date: 15 August 2008
Location: National Software Centre, IE

UK Gov Teacamp

UKGOV TeaCamp is a gathering for people working in and around UK government who have a particular interest in UK government online.

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Date: 7 August 2008
Location: Cafe Zest (top floor of house of Fraser), UK

Open Coffee Bristol

The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow.

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Date: 29 July 2008
Location: Starbucks, UK

UX Brighton Crit

  So, Crit here's how it works. You turn up with something you are working on ready to talk about (printouts work out better than a laptop). You then explain the project and target audience and goals so that comments can be relevant to the project.  

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Date: 25 July 2008
Location: The Werks, UK

Digital Mission to New York FAQ

New York City There's only a short while left to get applications in for the Digital Mission to NYC (deadline today, Wed 23rd July) and there's been heaps of questions about the mission itself. The team have been working flat out over the last few days to respond to email and phone queries.

The main queries have been gathered together and summarised here, which hopefully will be useful for companies thinking about applying for the New York mission, but also those wanting to better understand the hows, whys and wherefores of the application process and the mission itself.

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Geek in the Park 2008

  Geek in the Park on August 9th willl be an all-day family event including a relaxing picnic and a discussion with leaders in the web industry in the evening.

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Date: 9 August 2008
Location: Jephson Gardens, UK

Media@lse Fifth Anniversary Conference

Media@lse invites critical thinking about how the media and communications environment is impacted in shaping our perceptions of the human condition and thus, increasingly, mediating human values, actions and social relations.   20of%20the%20

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Date: 21 September 2008
Location: London School of Economics, UK