West Midlands digital links round-up, 3 September 2010

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Chris Unitt

Ah, that’s better – much more stuff to link to this month. There are some new appointments, new work and it looks (now everyone’s getting back from holidays) that a tasty programme of events is picking up again. Dive in:

Birmingham Post – Skibbly Media celebrates UEFA contract – “Skibbly Media will produce promotional trailers, interviews and background details on the 32 Europa League teams for broadcasters around the world”
Recent news round-up – Meshed Media – Lots of stuff going on for the digital and social media agency
SBS signs up Inspired for English football coverage – “Danish broadcaster SBS TV has appointed Staffordshire production company Inspired Film and Video to help with its coverage of the English Premier League”
Palmer’s works on social media with Clusta – “Clusta’s work aims to build online advocates for the brand through third party promotional activity, eCRM and celebrity endorsement”
New MD for Seal amid Birmingham promotions – “Nigel Pipkin, Seal’s PR director for the last four years, has been promoted to managing director of its Birmingham office”
BCU links up with software developer – “Birmingham City University’s School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks has signed a major deal to work with global software development company, 5G Technologies”
Pesky People – Happy 1st birthday to Pesky People and congrats on the new site
Digital Participation seminar round-up :: interactivecultures – “As promised (although delivered later than I planned) here’s a round-up of the Digital Participation – Measuring the Unmeasurable seminar that we ran here at Birmingham City University on the 19th July 2010″
Hacking Warwickshire….again « Warwickshire Open Data – Round 2 of the Hack Warwickshire competition has launched “We have another 15 datasets to play with following on from the first Hack Warwickshire competition, so there’s plenty of scope for new applications”
Screen WM – RedRex – Quarterly Media and Film Education, Film Archive & Film Exhibitors Forum – “a meeting for those working in media and film education in the West Midlands” . The next one is on 30 Sept
Meet ‘em Up: DJ Hero 2 in association with BAFTA – Eventbrite – “This month we’re in association with BAFTA and are joined by Freestyle Games talking about their follow up to the #1 New Game IP of 2009, DJ Hero 2″. On 29 Sept at the HMV Institute
Connecting Business with a Digital Future | Hello Business – The holding page is up and you can register your interest for the two-day conference now. Happening in Birmingham 21-22 October 2010
Next BCSMC: Does a virtual sun shine in a virtual Black Country? – Talks on virtual worlds from John Kirriemuir (Virtual World Watch) and David Baden (Daden Ltd) at the next Black Country Social Media Cafe on 21 Sept
Pecha Kucha Birmingham – Home – Speakers revealed. Tickets on sale

Got any news that we missed? Add it in the comments or tweet it to @BirminghamSMC.

A word from our sponsors

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Chris Unitt

I couldn’t make it along to the meet-up on Friday but I hear that it went well and the coffee money was spent in record time. Thanks to everyone who went along and to our sponsors, Birmingham City University, for their support.

Jon Hickman and Paul Bradshaw from BCU chose not to address the masses at the Coffee Lounge, but instead recorded a short video:

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6765960&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=FF7700&fullscreen=1

BSMC – a word from our sponsors from Chris Unitt on Vimeo.

Jon also interviewed new Social Media MA student and first-time BSMC visitor, Stephen Croome, about his thoughts on the event:

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6759068&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=FF7700&fullscreen=1

Reflections on Birmingham Social Media Café from Jon Hickman on Vimeo.

Thanks again to everyone who came. The next meet-up will be on Friday 30 October – all the usual details will be out very shortly.

Extra event – Data, Mashups and APIs on 19 August

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Chris Unitt

As a special, one-off event, there will be an extra BSMC on Wednesday 19 August from 6pm to 9pm(ish), sponsored by The Guardian.

You can sign up for free on Eventbrite.

As well as the usual chance the usual chance to meet, chat, scheme and share with likeminded souls, the evening will have a theme. We’ll be looking at data – why it’s increasingly important/useful for it to be made available and what can be done with it.

This event will be slightly different from the usual BSMC get-togethers:

It’ll be at Fazeley Studios, Digbeth,
in the evening,
we’ll have a few (nice and snappy) talks; and
we’ll give you some food and drink.

Speakers will include:

Matthew Wall, technical architect at The Guardian
Matthew Somerville of Dracos and mySociety
Dave Harte of Digital Birmingham
Paul Bradshaw of Help Me Investigate and online journalism course leader at Birmingham City University

As ever, the chance to chat with the other people in the room will be just as important. I know people have been discussions about organising hack days and the like. Hopefully this event will give people a chance to talk more about that.

There’s a little more info on the Eventbrite registration page. If you’d like to come along then please sign up (it’s free).

The Birmingham Social Media Cafe will be back at the Coffee Lounge on Friday 28 August, 10am to midday (listings soon come).

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