Next Event: Friday 26th Sept at BCU Parkside

Posted on 4 September, 2014 by Karen Strunks

The next event will be on Friday 26th Sept 10am-midday

Venue: BCU Parkside, Parkside building, 5 Cardigan Street B4 7BD (Entrance from Curzon Street) (map)

at the Costa Cafe in the first floor

There will also be a chance to have a look around inside the new building, including as well as visit £62m TV production facilities. Plus BCU will be treating us to coffee!

Would you or your company like to sponsor a BSMC event?

Sponsoring the Birmingham Social Media Cafe costs £250

Your name will be included in our communications for that month (email newsletter, twitter, facebook, blog and sponsorship page) and you will have a short slot at the event to introduce yourself and your organisation. To sponsor an event please email: birminghamsmc@gmail.com Find out more here.

Become a BSMC newsletter member! Subscribe to our FREE newsletter to keep up to date with BSMC news and you’ll automatically be eligible for discounts on our up and coming workshops and courses! Don’t forget to check out our free social media and business resources too!

Have you been before? If you’ve come along before then you’ll know that you’ll find a group of interesting people working in lots of different areas, all using (or looking to use) social media in what they do, whether that’s for promoting, collaborating or creating things online!

Are you new? If you’ve not come along before then you might like to know that it’s a very informal, friendly and chatty gathering – we try to make new folks feel as welcome as possible. Just come along, grab a drink and join the rest of us for a chat. If you don’t know anybody there, just come and say Hi to event organiser Karen Strunks who will introduce you to other attendees.

You can also find the Birmingham Social Media Cafe on Twitter, and Facebook where you can connect with 700 BSMC members. If you are a twitter user, the hashtag is #bsmc. Spread the word and tell your friends! 🙂

Next Event: Friday 30th May at BCU Parkside

Posted on 1 May, 2014 by Lucia D. Boveda

The next event will be on Friday 30th May 10am-midday

Venue: BCU Parkside, Parkside building, 5 Cardigan Street B4 7BD (Entrance from Curzon Street) (map)

at the Costa Cafe in the first floor

There will also be a chance to have a look around inside the new building, including as well as visit £62m TV production facilities. Plus BCU will be treating us to coffee!

Did you come to April’s BSMC and didn’t get somebody’s Twitter handle? Don’t worry! Here is a list of last’s month attendees:

@liznewtontweets
@VJOsgood // @YelpBrum
@tubblog
@travellingcoral
@simonhowes
@dharmesh_rajput
@LyzzyBee_Libro
@matthewdexter
@CheekyRiver
@PingPongDigital
@sanavitahealth
@BCUPressOfice
@cybrum
@MyJQ
@melissabeckerbr
@CliveIceland
@paulineroche
@karenstrunks
@ldboveda_en

Would you or your company like to sponsor a BSMC event?

Sponsoring the Birmingham Social Media Cafe costs £250

West Midlands digital links round-up, 3 September 2010

Posted on 3 September, 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.

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West Midlands digital links round-up, 3 September 2010