business & innovation

In The Brain of David Pollak, What is David Pollak going to say?

David Pollak will be delivering another free In The Brain session at Skills Matter!

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Date: 11 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

In The Brain of Robert Schneider, NewSQL and NoSQL - Two Different Yet Complementary Approaches For Managing Information

In this free talk, Robert Schneider will portray the challenges that have led up to this moment along with introducing major NewSQL and NoSQL platforms

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Date: 11 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Creativity-An Unfair Advantage

A series of evening events led by respected and influential speakers including Dave Trott, Jonathan Saipe, Allister Frost and Dr Mariann Hardy.

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Date: 7 February 2013
Location: Ogilvy Digital Labs, UK

INSPIRE [ONE] Innovation from Collaboration for SMEs

Special Guest Speaker: Kanya King MBE Founder and CEO of MOBO, one of the UK's most inspirational business speakers. London Fusion is a new two year business support programme, for Digital and Creative SME companies. We deliver access to fully funded resource and expertise from London's leading Universities.

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Date: 16 January 2013
Location: The Hospital Club, UK

Want Your Social Media Week Fix Early? Get Involved With The Digital Mission & SMW NYC

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As you may know, Social Media Week London will be returning to your streets in September 2013, however if you can’t quite wait that long then why not be a part of Social Media Week NYC in February where Chinwag will be joined by some great companies for a Digital Mission trip to New York.

SMW NYC looks set to be a great week with its global theme of Open & Connected: Principles for a Collaborative World being explored by speakers including Ben Kaufman, founder & CEO of Quirky, Cindy Gallop and the MakeLoveNotPorn.tv team, and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.

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Music 4.5 Open Data

Open Data: devaluing or driving music business models? An increasing number of businesses are built on other businesses’ open data. Re-using data-sets to create new business opportunities is sensible business strategy, but what about making money ‘for free’ from other businesses available data?

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Date: 5 March 2013
Location: Lewis Silkin offices, UK

TechPitch 4.5

TechPitch 4.5 brings together tech startups, investors and entrepreneurs for an evening of business idea pitching by startups and productive feedback from experts. Eight tech startups will present their business ideas and revenue models during a three-minute pitch followed by a five minute Q&A by a panel of judges.

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Date: 6 February 2013
Location: Pinsent Mason's auditorium, UK

Tech Business MiniMBA #8: Effective Software Development Management

The Tech Business Mini MBA #8: Effective Software Development Management presented by Peter Brownell, co-founder of start-up schoolofeverything.com, the UK branch of the Drupal Open Source Developer community (drupal.org), and Director of one of the UK's most established Drupal consultancies (codepositive.com).

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Date: 17 January 2013
Location: The Young Foundation, UK

Digital Mission to New York 2013: What's Happening, More Companies and Deadline Approaches

Back in December we announced the first set of companies that will be joining us for the Digital Mission to New York in February this year. 

We are very excited to not only let you know the next lucky group of companies coming along on the trip, but also to let you take a sneaky peak at the mission agenda

With an investor roundtable, masterclass in doing business in the USA, a traditional British pub quiz as well as all the keynotes, showcases and presentations that are being held as part of Social Media Week NYC the mission companies are not going to be short on events to go to and people to meet. You can take a look at the full agenda for the week here.

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Social Media Measurement & Monitoring

The UK's No. 1 measurement & monitoring event - featuring a keynote and training session from Katie Delahaye Paine. A two day training workshop and conference will covering topics such as choosing the right metrics, creating a measurement framework, sentiment analysis, influencer marketing, monitoring tools, team working, big data.

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Date: 26 March 2013
Location: Cavendish Conference Centre, UK

Changify Shoreditch 2

Changify is a new online and events hub for local community-led change projects backed by brands and local businesses. We're bringing the excitement back to social change - with your input. Join us for an exciting blend of local exploration, smartphone-based reportage, and creative problem solving. Find backing for the things you care about!

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Date: 25 January 2013
Location: The Tea Building (Method offices), UK

Judge Cred: Will Google Authorship Help Writers?

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‘Content is king’ as the old maxim goes and whilst there’s still an infinite amount of truth in that statement, the intriguing sub-plot that developed over the past decade or so could perhaps be framed as ‘visibility is a close second’.

Many a beautifully scripted site bearing gifts of great content has got lost in the vast, cacophonous sea of information that is the internet.

From early paid link schemes, through unnatural links to the frowned-upon ‘carpet-bombing’ practises of Link Farms, there’s been an ongoing search for new and improved ways to optimise website rankings.

The algorithms used in search engines have long been the subject of much keen analysis (and equally keen tinkering with a view to manipulating) but the latest phase in online behemoth, Google’s development intends to restore some much-needed transparency and trust to the SEO process with Google+ Authorship Markup.

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Seedcamp London

Apply to Seedcamp London for an intense day of mentoring and the first chance of 2013 to join the Seedcamp Family.

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Date: 30 January 2013
Location: Google Campus, London, UK

2012: The Year Video took a Giant Leap

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2012 has been an exceptional year for web video, with Psy's taking the world by storm and Felix Baumgartner's huge leap from space.

With record-breaking numbers of viewers watching content online, video has also played a massive part in the growth of companies globally.

Just take a look at YouTube's statistics to see how mind boggling the 'video revolution' has become, for example: 500 years of YouTube videos are watched every day on Facebook. Crazy!

We've pulled together a few interesting statistics from the past 12 months to sum up how web video has also been impacting on businesses.

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a4uexpo Europe 2013

a4uexpo Europe 2013 will see in excess of 900 delegates come together in Amsterdam, to learn, share knowledge, network and be at the forefront of digital evolution. Join us for 30+ interactive conference sessions covering the very latest in performance marketing, alongside networking, value-add features and a lively exhibition floor.

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Date: 2 July 2013
Location: Hotel Okura, NL