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The Duckies 2012 - UX Awards Party

The Duckies UX Awards Party - celebrating the best in up and coming design talent. We showcase the best design work of students across the UK, supplemented with Free Drinks and a BBQ! Also look out for the Magician and top DJ any much more to entertain you.

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Date: 18 August 2012
Location: Elstree House, UK

Refresh LX

Refresh LX is a two day event for busy Web Designers, where you can get some serious brain refreshment from all of the greatest speakers in the industry. All of this in sunny Lisbon, Portugal.

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Date: 20 September 2012
Location: Parque das Nações, PT

Social Media Week's #InstagramYourCity Competition Ends - See London's 1000+ Entries

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The wonderful Social Media Week competition, #InstagramYourCity, where entrants submitted edited photos of this September's 15 Social Media Week cities, has come to an end!

Running from 1st May til 30th June, here in London we've had over 1000 fabulous entries, all of which can be viewed on our two Pinterest boards:

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Publish! New players, new innovations

Digital publishing is not just about books or book publishers. Technological innovation is creating opportunities for partnerships between different industries including publishing, games, film, mobile and digital. New players, from beyond the publishing world, are entering the market, presenting new challenges and possibilities.

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Date: 19 July 2012
Location: St Bride Foundation, UK

Adoption - Social Business Fundamentals

Our next Social Business Fundamentals Event focuses on Adoption- what is is, why its important and some ideas on how to achieve it. Our featured guest speaker is Schlumberger's Dave Staughton- sharing their own experience on how they created an enterprise-wide collaborative knowledge sharing environment

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Date: 5 July 2012
Location: London- Dachis Group, UK

Rewire London Unconference

What happens when you fill a room with London's brightest brains in design, technology and business? Find out! Be part of it! Rewire London Unconference Friday 28 September @ Google Campus

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Date: 28 September 2012
Location: Central Working Shoreditch, UK

Freelancers’ Business Survival Kit - 5th of July

This workshop will give participants a greater understanding of the importance of business planning and cashflow forecasting, as well as issues surrounding tax and national insurance. Led by journalist, broadcaster and media trainer David Thomas

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Date: 5 July 2012
Location: Indie Training Fund, UK

TechHub Creative MeetUp - Diatom

Come along and meet other entrepreneurs who have an interest in both the creative and tech industries! Bring your lunch and have a chat about what's going on in the world of creativity in the tech industry right now while you munch.

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Date: 16 July 2012
Location: TechHub @ Campus, UK

TechHub Mobile Meet Up

This month’s speaker is Giovanni Bisutti from InputDynamics. Giovanni will talk about their new user interface (UI) for smartphones called Big Fat Soft-Key™ and give a brief overview of other UI input solutions.

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Date: 2 July 2012
Location: TechHub @ Campus, UK

ITU Telecom Young Innovators Competition

Open to 18-25 year olds worldwide, the Young Innovators Competition calls for projects/concepts which engage the power of ICTs to meet real-world developmental challenges

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Date: 21 June 2012
Location: ITU Telecom World Dubai, AE

Sharepoint for Social

Dachis Group London is launching a new series of events called “SharePoint for Social”. The aim of the events is to arm practitioners with the latest insights into the challenges that organisations face on their journey to making their business more social using SharePoint.

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Date: 28 June 2012
Location: London- Dachis Group, UK

LUNCH BEAT @ Cannt with Hyper Island

The dance phenomenon sweeping Sweden is spilling over to the UK. One hour of frantic booty shaking and escapism away from work, until we have to get back to our laptop-worshipping routines at the office. Brought to you by students from the Digital Media Management Masters Programme at Hyper Island in Manchester.

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Date: 21 June 2012
Location: 93 Feet East, UK

The Appsters Awards

Taking place as part of this year’s Apps World event, the Appsters Awards are a platform created to bring together the app industry to celebrate excellence in apps and for those creatively pushing forward the rapidly growing industry to take centre stage & become recognised.

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Date: 2 October 2012
Location: Kensington Roof Gardens, UK

Flumes News: Social Media's Top 5 London 2012 Olympic Commercials

With the Olympics fast approaching (just 38 days, 10 hours and counting...) Flumes News has collected the Top 5 Olympic commercials, reaching that title by being most tweeted - celebrating upcoming events, showcasing the world's top atheletes and with a little hint of classic British humour too.

In Olympic tradition, my Gold, Silver and Bronze of the 5 are included below. Personally I wish the Olympics was like the first, complete with business men fencing with umbrellas in the City...

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Simon Says: Hashtag Pages, the (much needed) love child of Facebook & Google News

I’ve not been this excited in ages. After a while you see a lot of the same stuff getting repeated in social media. Rarely do you see a useful innovative product that people would actually use that benefits both brands and consumers.

Hashtag Pages does exactly what it says on the tin. They are a unique page designed to pull together all the media and interesting commentary around a certain hashtag. The first people to take advantage of this is #NASCAR.

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