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David Laribee's Leading Lean/Agile Teams - Delivered by Simon Brown - September 11th - 12th

Join us for David Laribee’s Leading Lean/Agile Teams two-day workshop on September 11th & 12 in London.

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Date: 11 September 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Gojko Adzic's Test-Driven Development Workshop October 15th & 16th

Join us at Skills Matter for Gojko Adzic’s Test-Driven Development Workshop, delivered by Damjan Vujnovic over October 15th & 16th.

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Date: 15 October 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Mission Critical Service Testing Using soapUI Pro

This two day Mission Critical Service Testing Using soapUI will teach you how to use the powerful capabilities of soapUI Pro to answer important questions prior to placing these services into production.

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Date: 13 September 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Practical Agile Testing with Janet Gregory // October 31st - November 2nd

Janet specialises in showing agile teams how testers can add value in areas beyond critiquing the product; for example, guiding development with business-facing tests. Janet Gregory is the co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and a contributor to 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.

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Date: 31 October 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Facebook Marketing Conference: Facebook Keynote & Full Agenda Announced

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What better way to begin our Facebook Marketing Conference next week (Weds 18th July) than with Facebook themselves?!

After some essential tea & coffee and a short welcome, we'll kick things off with a keynote from Andy Pang, Measurement Solutions Group Lead from Facebook.

You'll then get to hear about BBC Worldwide, Cadbury Dairy Milk / Kraft Foods, Yorkshire Tea, Manchester City FC, TBG Digital, Beyond, Markettiers4DC, Edelman, GlobalWebIndex and more! The full programme is below...

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Youth Marketing and Digital: 6 New Stats That May Impact Your Plans

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At the recent Youth Marketing Strategy summit in London (Chinwag was a media partner - thanks Chinwag) I previewed some interesting new findings from our newly-published Youth Insight Report. These findings were based on research in April and May looking at the aspirations, attitudes and habits of UK 16-24s. We received around 1,700 responses to our survey.

These insights were broad, so here for the benefit of digital-biased marketers I've pulled out six fresh stats that relate only to digital...

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The Story Behind The Guardian's World-beating Facebook App

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In this guest post, Martin Belam, the man behind The Guardian Facebook App, explains the thinking behind the app and where he sees it leading both media companies and brands.

Last September, Facebook promised to forever change the face of sharing on the web, with the launch of new features of the Open Graph allowing apps to automatically share a users actions. Reception, it would be fair to say, was mixed. For publishers it presented an opportunity to vastly increase traffic and reach, whilst for some people it “ruined” sharing. Nine months on, what does the picture look like?

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Cadbury's, Manchester City FC, We Are Social & GlobalWebIndex join Facebook Marketing Conference (18th July)

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With two weeks left to go 'til Facebook Marketing Conference (18th Jul, ICO Conference Centre, London) we're very pleased to announce more amazing speakers joining our line-up from the likes of Cadbury Dairy Milk, Manchester City FC, TBG DigitalGlobalWebIndex and We Are Social.

That's in addition to our already super line-up: we'll be hearing from Nokia, BBC Worldwide, Yorkshire Tea and more! Find out more about our new speakers below.

There are a few tickets remaining, which you can get your hands on for only £145 + VAT. Check out the Facebook Marketing Bootcamp (17th July) for hands on training the day before the conference and if you fancy coming along to both the Facebook Marketing Bootcamp and Conference, grab a combo ticket for just £395 + VAT. Book your place now!

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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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1 year Anniversary FinTech Pitch competition & Panel session, July 31st @ 6pm, Farringdon, London

You will find this group valuable if you are interested or involved in any area of Financial Innovation, we have a broad membership that includes both new and existing finance companies, providers of capital, entrepreneurs, service providers, academics, technologists and those just interested in innovation generally.

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Date: 31 July 2012
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

In The Brain of James Gellately-Smith: Accessory Shop in the Cloud

In this talk, James Gellately-Smith describes the experience of building the Sky accessory shop website using a platform as a service (PaaS) vendor, and how the team overcame some key challenges to deliver an innovative solution.

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Date: 24 July 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

MongoDB Essentials // July 24th - 26th 2012

Join us at Skills Matter London for the MongoDB Essentials course over July 24th-26th.

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Date: 24 July 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Ayende Rahien's RavenDB Workshop

Join Itamar Syn Hershko as he delivers Ayende Rahien’s RavenDB workshop on the 12th &13th September.

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Date: 12 September 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Mark Rendle Web App Development with Nancy & Simple .Data 10th & 11th September

Challenge yourself with Mark Rendle’s 2-day course ‘Web App Development with Nancy and Simple .Data.’ If you are a web developer who wants to immerse yourself into how to use Nancy and simple.data, then join us at Skills Matter.

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Date: 10 September 2012
Location: Skills Matter, 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