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Print + Social: no-nonsense strategies for social media marketing

The great and good argue that every business should now be online, social, reactive and responsive. But what pressures does this add to your workload?

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Date: 24 February 2014
Location: St Bride Foundation, UK

How to organise a unique multi-venue one week event (Chinwag)

Join our breakfast networking event with Sam Michel, Founder and MD at Chinwag. Chinwag is a community media company providing a focal point for digital media practitioners in the UK and beyond.

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Date: 16 April 2014
Location: The Bakery, UK

How to raise £3 million for your startup (Job and Talent)

Join our breakfast networking event with Juan Urdiales, CEO and Co-Founder at Job and Talent. Our guest speaker will share his experience with Job and Talent, a new disruptive model in the talent recruitment industry.

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Date: 7 March 2014
Location: The Bakery, UK

How to Organise the Perfect Event (The Event Expert)

Join our breakfast networking event with Chris Powell, director at The Event Expert. The Event Expert team’s aim is to help individuals, businesses and public-sector officers to design and plan events that deliver results, as well as inspire and engage their audience.

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Date: 26 March 2014
Location: The Bakery, UK

How To Get The Best Coverage For Your Events and Company (TechCity News)

Join our breakfast networking event with Alex Wood, editor of Tech City News. Tech City News is the leading resource of news, events and information for technology innovators in London.

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Date: 26 February 2014
Location: The Bakery, UK

The Wrong Social Network: How Cognitive Bias Fools Marketers

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This post was written by Mat Morrison, Social Media Strategy Director at Starcom MediaVest Group and originally appeared on his blog. You can find him @mediaczar and his evil alter ego, @evilczar.

Like most other modern human beings (and I’m including you in this), I’m naturally bad at prioritising my life. There are all sorts of psychological processes that — while nicely suited to living in the early hominid moment — aren’t much use when it comes to mid- and long-term planning in the modern world. Wikipedia maintains a handy-dandy list of the resulting cognitive biases that’s worth perusing from time to time.

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29 January 2014 by Chinwag Team

Catfish On A Roll-In Much less Than 10 Minutes

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Date: 2 February 2012
Location: karl

Valentine's speed dating extravaganza - where Talent meets Tech

Want to find your perfect match this Valentines? Come to City University London's speed-dating event. Where startups and talented students/graduates can see if Cupid’s arrow has found a perfect match. To buy tickets please visit the eventbrite link above.

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Date: 13 February 2014
Location: The Hangout/ Bakery, UK

WEB in FEB

'Web in Feb’ 2014 will help you and your business make the most of the ever-expanding digital landscape.

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Date: 4 February 2014
Location: British Library Business & IP Centre, UK

The Business of Software Conference 2014, Cambridge, UK

Business of Software is a 2 day conference that brings together software entrepreneurs to exchange hard won lessons on how to grow an awesome business. It gives hardworking founders a place to meet each other and lift their heads from the daily grind – a chance to work on, not in, their companies.

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Date: 24 June 2014
Location: Robinson College, UK

The Business of Software Conference 2014, Boston

Business of Software is a two and a half day conference for independent software vendors to gather, discuss and learn from each other and some of the most highly regarded thinkers in the industry how to build better, more sustainable, more profitable software businesses.

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Date: 15 September 2014
Location: Seaport Hotel, US

Stop! Step away from your keyboard. Are you ready to Tweet that Tweet?

We all know a Facebooker or Tweeter that should probably have sat on their hands rather than posted that last message. If you can’t think of any then it may be you!

We’ve all been there, in the throes of anger we’ve said something we didn’t mean. The same thing happens on social media, perhaps even more fatally when we’re able to hide behind a computer screen.

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7 January 2014 by Vicky Laing

New Horizons

New Horizons brings a variety of people, disciplines, and interests together in one provocative, thought-provoking, enormously creative, and fun day.

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Date: 7 March 2014
Location: The Proud Archivist, UK

Facebook or Twitter? How Age and Narcissism Motivates The Choice

Facebook is a mirror while Twitter is a megaphone.

That is the core of a University of Michigan study into the two dominant social networks and how people use them.

Lead researcher Elliot Panek and colleagues carried out two studies. In the first, college students were asked how they used social media and given personality assessments. Among this age group, narcissists preferred to use Twitter to broadcast their opinions to others.

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10 December 2013 by Vicky Laing

SMX London 2014

Search Marketing Expo is the only search marketing conference designed exclusively for experienced internet marketers

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Date: 13 May 2014
Location: Chelsea Football Club, UK