events

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Journalists tooling-up for the instant web

Has Video Killed the Blogging Star? This was the question posed by the 4 o’clock session at this week’s Social Media Influence conference in London.

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365 friends: It's the year of the geek

God bless my parents. Heaven knows how they coped. I was a right rotter in my teens. All loud music, piercings and dyed blacker than black hair. My music was their biggest bug bear. “Like a fire engine in a tumble dryer” was how my dad described the racket emanating from my pit.

Fast forward to today and the generation gap has slowly disappeared.

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AOP: Making Video Work For You

An informative session, using illustrative examples, to bring publishers up to speed with incorporating video content.

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Date: 18 June 2008
Location: Blue Fin Building, UK

Minibar: 4IP Innovation for the Public

Channel4 will pre-launch '4IP' - a new £50 million creative fund at MiniBar. The main focus is to invest in public service digital media for audiences around Britain

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Date: 27 June 2008
Location: Mini Bar, UK

Channel 4 marries learning with social media


Channel 4’s promise? To strengthen their connection with young audiences by embracing mulitple platforms and devoting £6 million of their budget to higher risk projects.

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Media Futures Conference

Exploring the dynamics and trends shaping the future of media. Debate plus presentations showcasing innovative projects...

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Date: 20 June 2008
Location: Alexandra Palace, UK

2gether08

Bringing together creatives, change-makers and innovators from a wide range of fields to explore collborative technologies and find out how we can use them to solve the greatest challenges facing society today...

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Date: 2 July 2008
Location: Rochelle School, UK

How's the internet feeling today?

“We Feel Fine” was an inspired project from artist and internet technologist Jonathan Harris at the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle last week. Photos of childhood scrapbooks, oil paintings and sketches from travels were the intro to his presentation, one that took an alternative approach to creative thinking.

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Striding out in Brighton: how to recruit, manage and lead an entrepeneurial team

Many businesses fail because the entrepreneur tries to do everything themselves! So how do you recruit, manage and lead an entrepreneurial team to help you fullfil your ambition. With little resources you need to recruit properly, you need to offer the right incentives, you need to manage delegation and you need to be a leader in the area in which you excel!....OR ELSE You Could Loose Alot of Money or Not Succeed!!! The event will look at personality profiling tools to help you recruit the right people and ways to manage them. It will give you an insight into your own leadership style and qualities, and it will give you methods on how to effectively manage and lead a team. It is an opportunity to network and discuss your circumstances with a panel of experts in leadership, profiling and management. The event will be facilitated by Soraya Shaw, Striding Out's Business Coach in Brighton, a specialist in team and leadership development. She will be joined by our guests:- Jo Ward - A Wealth Dynamics Practitioner. Wealth Dynamics is a personality profiling tool which specialises in putting together entrepreneurial teams. Rosie Freshwater - Founder of Leapfrogg, one of the leading search engine marketing companies in the UK. Rosie has built the company over the last five years and now employs 17 people. £10.50/£30.50 for Non Members and Free for Members

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Date: 24 June 2008
Location: The Werks, UK

Thinking Digital’s northern delights….

The north east has always been a hotbed of economic activity. Since it’s glory days as an industrial heavy weight it’s been a centre of economic enterprise, one way or another. Today the North-East’s new identity as a knowledge-led, high-end technology hub is attracting industry talent.

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Measurment Camp

An Opensource movement measuring social media. This measurement camp will be thinking along the lines of pretend campaigns (e.g what if TFL used Twitter for travel news) - and working out from there how that campaign would then be measured.

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Date: 4 June 2008
Location: Coach and Horses pub, UK

Measurement Camp IV

MeasurementCamp brings together the varied people of the digital revolution - web developers; buzz monitoring technologists; social media planners; smart PR people - to solve the question 'how do we measure social media?'

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Date: 9 July 2008
Location: Coach and Horses pub, UK

Game Developers Conference : Paris

Paris GDC is the second French edition of the Game Developers Conference, the most important event in the industry. It will bring together top developers from the European community and abroad, who are eager to share their experience, exchange ideas, and show the latest innovations in current -generation of game development. Paris GDC is geared towards inspiring a ground-breaking new-generation of developers. The event is structured around core technical expertise, and focuses on state-of-the-art current generation console and PC development, including multi-platform development. The Conference focuses on Building Great Games: Core and Casual Learn, Network, Inspire. In our modern world you should learn from the best while connecting with the right people at the right place. Inspiration brings the creativity that leads to innovations and new challenges.

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Date: 23 June 2008
Location: Coeur Defense, FR

Game horizon conference '08

The GameHorizon Conference is a new games event that brings together industry executives from around the world to debate, share and learn about the business, vision and future of games. The GameHorizon Conference is a new games event that brings together industry executives from around the world to debate, share and learn about the business, vision and future of games. Held on 18-19 June 2008 in NewcastleGateshead, UK, the GameHorizon Conference is your chance to: * Be energised and inspired by the industry’s most influential figures and greatest visionaries * See astounding new technologies, ideas and game worlds in action * Make invaluable contacts and hook up with old ones * See the hottest forthcoming titles Who should attend? The conference is aimed at CEOs, studio heads, managing directors, senior and acquisition executives from games companies - including developers, publishers, format holders, middleware, hardware, professional services and outsourced service providers.

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Date: 18 June 2008
Location: The Baltic, UK