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Social Media in Corporate Context

Social media tools are increasingly used by those who need to communicate to audiences who are not necessarily their customers. Social Media in a Corporate Context is for all corporate communications professionals who need to understand how social media forge a dialogue with internal and external stakeholders.

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Date: 19 October 2010
Location: Palace Hotel, UK

Innovate 10: Connection for Growth - 10 Tickets Up for Grabs

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The Technology Strategy Board, following funding calls earlier this year designed to encourage collaboration between companies for cutting edge technology, are hosting Innovate 10 next week. And they've kindly given us ten tickets to give away.

The event, which includes a keynote from David Willetts MP will address all aspects of technology innovation, with a special focus on the commercial exploitation of the digital economy, healthcare markets of the future, energy generation and supply and the sustainability economy.

There’s a digital ‘journey’ that you can follow at this year’s event. It starts with two sessions How Digital Technology Will Drive Growth in the Creative Industries, and Make the Connection between Open Innovation and Social Media. You can then follow this by voting for your favourite new idea when companies will be pitching for up to £100k of funding in the Innovate Launch Pad: Digital & Healthcare.

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media140 futures: dataconomy Event

media140 data economy is the first in a series of unique events we are hosting in London across different subject. It is a participartory experience with speakers providing 20 minute presentations with discussion and debate at the end of the event.

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Date: 21 October 2010
Location: HUB, Kings Cross, UK

Brands on Film: Working the brand-film opportunity

Brands On Film looks at how brands and film makers are coming together to make entertaining content. Sony, Philips, M&C Saatchi, LBi, Vice Media, Film Tree and Thinktank will demonstrate how best to manage brand-film collaboration, and pretty much deliver the director's cut in the art of films and marketing.

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Date: 21 October 2010
Location: LBi, Atlantis Building, Truman Brewery, UK

"Best of British" Games Networking event

You’re invited to the ‘Best of British’ games networking event Date: Thursday 2nd December Venue: Tiger Tiger, Haymarket, London Time: 6pm until late GameHorizon would like to invite you to a networking event celebrating the best that the British games industry has to offer.

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Date: 2 December 2010
Location: Tiger Tiger, UK

MediaPro 2010

mediaPro - The future of integrated communications - covers the delivery of effective integrated communications across digital, social and print media for marketers, brand managers, agencies and the media.

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Date: 2 November 2010
Location: Olympia 2, UK

Facebook Like Button: The Stats So Far

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They're pretty much ubiquitous already, but do you remember way back when, to April, when Facebook Like buttons were launched? When Zuck hit London in June, the company announced 350,000 sites were using the buttons, with over 1bn impressions served daily.

So the volumes are enormous, but what's the impact for publishers? Facebook's Director of Media Partnerships Justin Osofsky recently released a presentation that shared some juicy tidbits from major publishers (see below for full presentation).

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All of a Flutter as Twitter Passes MySpace

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Twitter has been hitting the marketing trail over the last couple of weeks as the work to entrance the media buying world was kicked off with stints as ad:tech London and the IAB MIXX in New York and the news that promoted tweets are well on the way.

And it looks like there's plenty to crow about as newcomer(ish) Twitter.com has overtaken MySpace.com. According to comScore (and reported by the WSJ), Twitter had nearly 96 million users last month (August), up 76% from last year, whilst MySpace.com dropped 17% to a mere 95 million uniques.

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Business of APIs Conference London 2010

Business of APIs Conference London 2010: The only conference dedicated to bringing together leading minds on APIs, apps powered by APIs and API centric business models, the 5th Annual Business of APIs Conference is coming soon to a coast near you!

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Date: 8 October 2010
Location: The Guardian and Observer, Kings Place, UK

Three Reasons to Apply for Digital Mission to New York 2010

Digital Mission to New York

Over the last five Digital Mission trips, it's been a privilege to work with some of the UK's leading digital companies. Getting the chance to spend a week away with people who are taking the scary, but exciting, journey of expanding their business into the US is a great way to really understand what makes entrepreneurs tick.

So, it was rather humbling last week, when we announced the third Digital Mission to New York (deadline's Fri, by the way), to see these tweets from Digital Mission alumni @kierondonoghue, @mr_mcd and @stuartbruce...

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GameHorizon 2011

The GameHorizon conference is Europe's leading event for international game executives. A two-day conference featuring the most creative, entertaining and inspirational speakers from the games and entertainment industry.

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Date: 28 June 2011
Location: The Sage Gateshead, UK

GameHorizon 2010 Speaker Videos Published with Peter Molyneux, Michael Acton Smith, Charles Cecil

GameHorizon Conference 2010 by Codeworks Connect

GameHorizon, one of the UK's leading conferences tackling the business of games has just published the videos from this year's conference. 

Speakers included Peter Molyneux on Monetising Innovation, Michael Acton Smith from Mind Candy explaining how Moshi Monsters reached 20 million users and Charles Cecil from Revolution looking at "The Games Industry v William Hogarth".

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Music 4.5 - The Power of Audiences

The annual Music 4.5 conference is returning to London in November 2010. The focus will be on The Power of Audiences looking at both reaching audiences and building audiences from a music tech and artist perspective.

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Date: 10 November 2010
Location: Cafe de Paris, UK

Getting yourself out there- CV Workshop £50

CV Workshop with expert Christine Pyke

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Date: 19 October 2010
Location: Vision+Media, MediaCityUK, UK

Cross-Platform: Generating New Projects & Markets

One-day workshop covering the business-side of planning, creating and pitching multiplatform content. Great for crossover projects between tv, web, mobile and app. Practical session, great insider insights, case studies, hands-on pitch at end with advice. Eligible for up to 80 per cent saving through Skillset Multiplatform bursary.

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Date: 14 October 2010
Location: Indie Training Fund at Lux, UK