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Practical Crowdsourcing + Crowdfunding - Engaging Citizens and Customers with Social Media and Web2.0

Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding are not new, but their impact on the way organizations operate and make decisions or fund change is evolving more each day. In fact - some organizations are built around the wisdom of the crowd as part of their business model.

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Date: 20 June 2011
Location: Innovation Warehouse London, UK

Music 4.5: The death of collective licensing?

The Death of Collective Licensing? An investigative debate with startups, labels, publishers and artists.

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Date: 22 June 2011
Location: eOffice, UK

Music 4.5: Brand discovery...

Music 4.5: Brand discovery... A showcase and discussion - in collaboration with Brand-e.biz

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Date: 28 September 2011
Location: Central London location TBA, UK

techpitch 4.5

techpitch 4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups, including some of the startups that have taken part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months.

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Date: 5 July 2011
Location: The Auditorium, Pinsent Masons, UK

In The Brain of Matthew Baxter-Reynolds: XML Documents over REST Interfaces

Matthew Baxter-Reynolds – author of Cracking Native Mobile Development: Cross-platform Apps without the Kludge – presents an “In the Brain” session about one particular area of multimobile development, namely how to construct, transmit and read XML documents over REST interfaces.

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Date: 8 August 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Young Entrepreneurs Hackday @Techhub

Are you a software developer or designer? Are you a product manager, marketer or startup enthusiast? If so, come build a website or smart phone app at: TechHub on 25th June from 9am-11pm

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Date: 25 June 2011
Location: Tech Hub, UK

Copyright in the Digital Age: Will the Government Implement the Hargreaves Recommendations?

Coadec is hosting an event next Thursday evening, 23rd June, on the Hargreaves IP report and the prospects for the government implementing its recommendations.

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Date: 23 June 2011
Location: TechHub, UK

Intel Appup Application Lab

The Intel AppUpSM Application Lab: MeeGo series is coming to London! Join us to learn how to create exciting experiences with MeeGo and access great opportunities for your PC, netbook and tablet apps with Intel AppUpSM developer program.

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Date: 5 July 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

"Branded Content" by Frank Rose

Times Square

This is a Guest Blog by Frank Rose, Contributing Editor of Wired US, who's recently written and released "The Art of Immersion".

Everywhere I go this year, I seem to run into a branded content discussion.

From DIY Days in New York, to the “Brisk: Machete” panel I did with Robert Rodriguez and Dann Trejo at SXSW interactive, to the Branded Content Salon I spoke at at LBi London, to Morgan Spurlock’s POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold at Hot Docs and Sheffield, the idea that brands can commission entertainment instead of merely advertising in it keeps popping up.

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London HTML5 User Group:Peter Lubbers on Modern Web Apps

In this fast-paced, practical session, HTML5 expert Peter Lubbers (author of Pro HTML5 Programming and founder of the San Francisco HTML5 User Group) will show you how to take advantage of HTML5 Web Workers to significantly improve the responsiveness of your pages.

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Date: 7 July 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Deadline Extended for Digital Mission to Washington DC

We've had a few requests for more time to apply for the Digital Mission to Washington DC (11 - 15th July) and although time is now tight, we thought we'd be generous and allow another 5 days.  The application deadline is now Friday 17th June.

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There's a lot of fantastic events and activities planned for the mission, as well as some brilliant partners.  There's been so many exciting announcements regarding the mission the past couple of weeks, we've attempted to re-cap everything below.

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Looking for a Summer Internship? List #2

Internship

We've had such a fantastic response to our Internship List, we've had to start a new one to continue it.  The first lists 20 internships and placements from the likes of Neoco, Market Sentinel, Splendid Communications, HipSnip, The House, Taylor James and more.

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We'll be keeping this list updated as and when internships are submitted.  If you'd like to add your internship to the list, please fill out the form here.

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London Spring User Group: Cloud Foundry

In this talk Russ Miles will talk through his experiences using CloudFoundry both as a regular cloud PaaS, hosted by VMware at CloudFoundry.com, and using CloudFoundry locally as a multi-runtime, scalable platform for building in-house applications.

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Date: 14 June 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Social Media Strategies Summit

During this 3 day summit attendee’s will learn how to best utilize and integrate the myriad social media platforms to engage customers directly at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing. Through the intelligent use of social media marketing you can, in house, have continuous direct contact with your customers.

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Date: 25 October 2011
Location: TBD, UK

Green Data Centre and Cloud Control Conference

The Green Data Centre and Cloud Control Conference are collocated events which will give attendees the hands down, most comprehensive event experience. Don't miss out on this ground breaking conference and reserve your seat now!

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Date: 25 October 2011
Location: Hilton London Tower Bridge Hotel, UK