West Midlands digital links round-up, 25 October 2010

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Chris Unitt

Bit late this week, but here you go:

Paper on Advantage West Midlands’ Digital Media Cluster | daveharte.com – “It’s had a wide distribution via email to the various business/public sector bods who were doing the LEP lobbying but I suspect it’ll never get formally published anywhere so I thought I’d dump it on here”
New apprenticeships launched in creative sector – Birmingham Post – “Noel Dunne, director of Creative Alliance, an organisation which aims to support and develop creative talent, said: “The new creative and digital media apprenticeship will help employers attract talented young people to their organisation”
Engaging Visitors Through Social Media – Notes – jon bounds – Jon’s notes and links from his session at Hello Digital
Birmingham in world’s top 21 ‘intelligent communities’, says global thinktank – Birmingham Post – “Judges said that Birmingham City Council and NHS Birmingham East and North were delivering innovative telecare and telehealth programmes in conjunction with private sector technology manufacturers and the third sector”
Jobs in the Meeja | Mind over Matter – Ian gives a few of his top tips for getting a job in the media (although most of it applies to pretty much any sector). Worth a read
Bull Ring digital screen contract awarded to Ocean – News – THE DRUM – “Scottish Widows Investment has awarded the contract to maximise revenue income for the full-motion digital screen located at The Bull Ring in Birmingham to media owner and digital screen specialist Ocean”
Chemex chooses graduate start up agency for online marketing – News – The Drum – Nice win for Studio Bonito
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Notes on BirminghamCouncil website post mortem – The website wasn’t great and it turns out the Post Implementation Review didn’t get it all right either
Birmingham City University’s Marketing Challenge – A 5-day programme where you’ll “develop a marketing product and campaign strategy in answer to a live brief you will be set on Day 1″. Free entry, aimed at final year students/graduates/post-grads and there’s a prize of £800
Royal Television Society Midlands 2010 Nominations – And the nominees are…
The BIMA Awards : Finalists – Maverick and Mudlark are both up for awards. Didn’t spot anyone else from around here

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West Midlands digital links round-up, 15 October 2010

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Chris Unitt

Some links for y’all:

Big Button | Work | Web & Interactive | James Martin iPhone app – “Built totally in-house by Big Button, the app features over 80 searchable recipes with step-by-step instructions and great photography”
Vote for walkit.com – thegoodwebguide.co.uk have nominated walkit.com for an award. Give em a boost here
Rare Vintage: Part One | Edge Magazine – “To mark Rare’s 25th birthday, we visited the company’s sprawling estate in Twycross, barely ten miles from where it first began”
Birmingham Post – Public services to get a digital overhaul, Tory conference fringe event told – A write-up of the Screen WM-hosted event
Birmingham Post – Soshi Games nets Screen WM investment – “Screen WM has invested an undisclosed sum in two products developed by Soshi Games through the Digital Media Fund”
FLUID | Top 50 Design agency – Computer Arts have been saying nice things about Fluid. Did anyone else from around here make it into that list?
Doodle: Hackitude 2010 – Dates are being discussed for the next Hackitude

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West Midlands digital links round-up, 8 October 2010

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Chris Unitt

Launch48 Birmingham Entrepreneurial Event – Weekend – “The Launch48 Weekend is a fast paced experience, encouraging participants to learn, network and collaboratively create a new and exciting web or mobile application”
Substrakt website refresh – Autumn 2010 – Blog – Substrakt – “I’d like to start by introducing some important decisions we’ve made when redefining our online presence”. Substrakt explain their own website’s redesign
Say Hello – “We’ve been catching up with Chris Unitt, the producer behind Say Hello project, News Dash, which launched last month”
Introducing NHS Local to hyperlocal sites in the West Midlands | Talk About Local – “We are delighted to host a guest post from Carl Plant, Stoke-on-Trent social media and community hero now working with NHS Local”
‘Making it findable’ – the creed of the hyperlocal blogger | Podnosh – “Yesterday I spent the afternoon at Hyperlocal Govcamp West Midlands, a gathering of hyperlocal bloggers, local government officials, and people involved in open data”
SocMed WM – Social Media Surgeries in the West Midlands – “Free advice “surgeries” run by local social media professionals”
Birmingham Post – Daden creates 3D lab for University of Leicester – “Birmingham Science Park-based Daden is creating the virtual lab to help students at the University of Leicester as part of a project addressing the limitations of teaching in working laboratories”
Is blogging the new rock ‘n’ roll? – Jez Collins – “On the surface, Birmingham has a small but very active and visible blogging scene”
The Social Gas Podcast — Google Docs | We Share Stuff – “Join We Share Stuff for the second episode of our new podcast”. Interesting name…
Screen WM – Channel 4 Online announcement – “4iP, Channel 4’s digital co-investment arm which completes its pilot phase next month, will be merged into existing Channel 4 teams”
Hacks and Hackers Lichfield announced! – Lichfield District Council Open Data – “we’ve teamed up with ScraperWiki, an online tool which aims to make working with data more open an collaborative, to organise a Hacks and Hackers day in Lichfield”

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West Midlands digital links round-up, 1 October 2010

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Chris Unitt

Lots of good news this week – big hires, big projects, big funding wins. Who cares about the grotty weather?

Fanning the flames of GovSpark | Podnosh – A government website knocked together in (well) under 48 hours – “Josh Hart coded like a lunatic and the talented and calm Ryan Dean-Corke of Substrakt sorted out some visuals for us.”
Birmingham Post – CivicoLive receives funding boost from creative fund – “CivicoLive secured the investment from venture capital fund Creative Advantage Fund with the help of the Entrepreneurs for the Future (e4f) programme at Birmingham Science Park Aston (BSPA)”
Freestyle Interactive swells account management team – News – THE DRUM – “Joining the business, which is the largest digital specialist agency in the Midlands, are Mark Tennant, Angel Gibbons and Paul Thomas, all of whom are joining on the back of several new business wins”
New website commissioned to promote Westfield Shopping Centre – News – THE DRUM – “A new website is to be developed for Westfield shopping centre, having appointed Birmingham creative agency Tomorrow People to handle the project”
AHP picks Rhubarb for Birmingham home – News – THE DRUM – “AHP Design has opened its office in the centre of Birmingham’s creative quarter”
John Dean named creative director of Clusta – News – THE DRUM – “Dean joins the Birmingham-digital agency having worked at Saatchi & Saatchi and WCRS before launching Addition Marketing. Also joining are Emily de Groot, previously at M&C Saatchi and Proximity, and FullSIX’s Neil Brice”
“Up to” 40mb/s broadband for central Birmingham « D’log – “BT has just announced fast broadband upgrades for central Birmingham”
Début | Update September 2010 – What they’ve been up to in the past month
Logging on With… for Hello Digital – Interview with Raj Mack, head of Digital Birmingham
Cecelia Ahern AR Campaign | Stickee – “We have just launched an Augmented Reality campaign for Harper Collins’ best selling author Cecelia Ahern”
Birmingham Post – Birmingham City Council spent thousands hunting software that didn’t exist – How many thousands? 300 of them. That’s impressive

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West Midlands digital links round-up, 24 September 2010

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Chris Unitt

Lots of links to stuff:

Top Media Agencies – NMA | Top 100 – New Media Age have published their list of the country’s top digital agencies, ranked by income. The West Midlands has the fewest of any region – just Freestyle Interactive keeping our end up. That’s it
Birmingham Post – Places still available at free IT seminar – “The Optimise IT event at Villa Park on Thursday is hosted by OGL Computer in support of Birmingham St. Mary’s Hospice. The seminar will focus on disaster recovery, virtualisation technology and eCommerce and web marketing”
Gamer Camp: Nano – Switchboard – Interesting scheme to get people making games with some good mentoring on offer
Take a sneak peek around our new offices! | BARQUES BLOG – Barques welcome us into their lovely home
Opportunity for filmmakers to screen their films as part of Hello Digital 2010 – Producers’ Forum have “a space at The Custard Factory Theatre, which seats 100 people on 21st and 22nd October from noon -18:30″. Give them a shout if you want to submit a film or two
Screen WM – Enter The Digital Den – 3 Steps to High Growth Investment – “a specially tailored programme of intensive workshops and pitching sessions that will focus on getting your business investment-ready and putting you in front of high-growth investors”
500 people involved in Social Media Surgery – plus….. | Podnosh – “Between you, you have set up social media surgeries in 38 different towns cities or neighbourhoods in 5 different countries (plus some others coming). You’ve run or set up 76 different events”
Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 list three companies from the West Midlands – Those being bet365 (Stoke-on-Trent), Probrand (Birmingham) and Entanet International (Telford).
Arts Industry » Feature preview » Forging film’s British future – The Big Vault – “a new £25m centre for the conservations of the volatile and priceless archive of 150,000 film and and 200,000 TV programmes it holds. Work has already started on it, and it will open in the West Midlands late in 2011″
Pecha Kucha Birmingham, UK Channel on Vimeo – Vids from the first night
383 Project » A weekend of fashion – On and offline work for Style Birmingham

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