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AOP Summit 2012 - Unleashing your Inner Startup

The best startups are celebrated for their agility, flexibility and speed. But how can established businesses in the middle of dramatic change replicate the approach of a lean startup?

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Date: 12 October 2012
Location: Westminster Bridge Park Plaza, UK

Fancy Yourself as an Olympic Reporter? Apply to be a #CitizenCurator & Share your Experiences

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University of Westminster and Museum of London are on the hunt for 12 #citizencurators to record life in London during the Games.

As everyone knows, the great moments of the Olympics will be photographed & written about, with opinions of organisors, commentators and celebrities in the media - but what about the experience of the humble London resident?

That's where the #citizencurators come in! #Citizencurators is a research project developed by the University of Westminster for the Museum of London that explores what it is like to live in London during the Olympic fortnight (July 27 – August 12).

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12 July 2012 by Lauren Cotton

Social Media Fundamentals #1 – Social Media Governance

Dachis Group London is pleased to invite you to the first event in its series of monthly Social Media Fundamentals, intended to arm digital and HR practitioners with the latest insights and strategic steps to taking full advantage of social media within organisations. For our first meeting we will focus on social media governance.

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Date: 25 July 2012
Location: Dachis Group London, UK

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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10 July 2012 by Luke Mitchell

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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6 July 2012 by Lauren Cotton

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

a4uexpo London 2012

Two day performance marketing conference and exhibition covering the most current industry topics and including networking, exhibition hall, content-drive agenda and additional features.

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Date: 16 October 2012
Location: Hilton London Metropole, UK

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

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

Health and Safety for TV Productions - 4th of July

Led by Clem Leneghan of Safety Guys, this is a one-day workshop for production staff covering the key issues in health and safety legislation and practice for TV productions.

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Date: 4 July 2012
Location: Indie Training Fund, UK

Propaganda Factory 2012

C21’s third Propaganda Factory takes place on July 4 at BAFTA in London, a unique one-day interactive networking event designed to provide an expert view on how to market, PR and build content brands in the digital age.

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Date: 4 July 2012
Location: BAFTA, UK

Featuring Adam Lehman - Brackets: An Open Source Code Editor For The Web

Brackets is a new open source project started by Adobe to push tooling on the web forward. Brackets is built in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. This session will provide an overview of Brackets and demonstrate how to hack on the project so you can customize and extend it to meet your needs. You can build a better editor.

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Date: 26 July 2012
Location: Kaltura NYC HQ, US

NYC JS & HTML5: Mobile from the Cloud with Tiggzi and AppMobi

Join Tiggzi and AppMobi at this insightful meetup about HTML5 and Mobile Web Development. Learn HTML5 Game Development from the experts at AppMobi and Learn how to build HTML5 mobile apps using cloud services. More info and RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/how-to-javascript/events/44709592/

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Date: 11 July 2012
Location: Kaltura NYC HQ, US

CIPR: Social summer - Social TV

Social Summer @ CIPR

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Date: 20 September 2012
Location: CIPR, UK