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You, inc - Three Tips on How to Market Yourself and Get a Job

Search for a job online

Hunting for a job can feel like a never ending cycle of CVs, applications forms and tears of desperation. Add to the mix, a diet of emergency biscuits and daytime TV and the job search could feel like a unique punishment inflicted on to the innocent.

With such fierce competition, marketing yourself online can help you to cut through the masses and become the victor. But where to start? Handily, we've come up with three easy ways of using social media to get ahead in the job hunting game.

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Brand Republic's Maximising Mobile Marketing

The conference will focus on mobile marketing and follow case studies from brands that are successful in this area.

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Date: 8 November 2011
Location: Central London, venue TBC, UK

Hanging Up The Telephone?

Switchboard

As more and more companies effectively rip out their telephone lines to replace them with online channels, the accessibility and speed of the Internet seems to be heralded as a more effective way of businesses communicating with their customers.

But once the dial tones fades, will online customer service just shine a light on faults within in a brand?

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Chinwag's 4-Step Guide for Brilliant Event Promotion

Crowd

The benefits of hosting and running an event are obvious. In one fail swoop, your influential speakers will draw in guests who could end up being potential partners, consumers or even investors.

Your event will be the toast of the digital town, elevating your brand in a dynamic way. The only drawback? The niggly fact that everybody wants a slice of the events pie. So what to do?

In such an overcrowded market, strategic planning and promotion can see your event being firmly pencilled into the diaries of those that matter. But navigating the choppy waters of promotions can be tricky for even the savviest of marketers, so we've come up with four easy ways to promote your event.

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How to...Use Social Media for Business Success

In this workshop Chet Thaker, Central member and social media expert, will be discussing ways to effectively use social media to go from Invisible to Visible online. Come along and share your own social media experiences. Learn the analytics behind Twitter and Facebook and take away a whole list of dos and don'ts.

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Date: 24 August 2011
Location: Central, UK

New MA/MSc in Creating Social Media at Goldsmiths, London

New Course in Creating Social Media at Goldsmiths, London. Applicable to a wide range of people from developers, community managers to PR, etc. who are interested in shaping the future social media. On this course you will explore the big questions around developments in the social web and develop ground-breaking applications and campaigns.

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Date: 18 July 2011
Location: Centre for Cultural Studies, UK

PRWeek's Social PR Strategy

PRWeek's 5th annual Social PR Strategy: extending reach, managing followers and proving ROI. A social media conference for PR professionals. Being held on 18 October 2011. For details of the programme and speaker line-up please go to: http://www.prandsocialmedia.com

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Date: 18 October 2011
Location: Central London, venue TBC, UK

B2B Marketing Conference 2011 - Accelerate: Peak performance marketing

This year’s B2B Marketing Conference is designed to help marketers hit their peak performance. Offering insight and inspiration to address the key challenges that lay ahead, this conference will play a key role in helping formulate your marketing strategy for the crucial year ahead.

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Date: 9 November 2011
Location: The British Library, UK

IT marketing: key insights into current trends and challenges in the technology sector

Looking at marketing in the IT sector and the key trends and issues impacting on it. We understand that your industry has specific needs and requirements in this ever changing world of marketing. This seminar will look at the issues which directly affect you on a daily basis.

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Date: 13 October 2011
Location: PentaHotel, UK

Email Marketing Training Workshop-Advanced

Everybody can and does send email shots out on a regular basis, but are you really getting the best return on your efforts?

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Date: 24 September 2011
Location: Etc. Venues, UK

Search Engine Optimisation Training Workshop

We all know that it is essential to be ahead in search rankings, but how do you actually achieve that? This training course will show you ways of developing the right strategy and how get to the top of the rankings. You will look at your own sites and be shown how you can achieve this.

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Date: 24 August 2011
Location: Etc. Venues, UK

Digital Brand Strategy Summit 2011

The Digital Brand Strategy Summit is designed to create a unique showcase from leading brands and industry experts on how to create, launch and implement an effective Digital Marketing Strategy for your brand.

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Date: 22 November 2011
Location: Prospero House, UK

LeWeb 2011

LeWeb brings together the most influential audience in the Internet ecosystem. Top industry entrepreneurs, executives, investors, senior press & bloggers gather to focus on the key issues and opportunities in the web marketplace.

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Date: 7 December 2011
Location: 

Eurosites Les Docks
, FR

The Designers Fiesta 2011

The designers Fiesta is part of London Design Week and brought to you by Academy Class the Adobe, Apple and Autodesk Accredited Training partner. Learn, Meet and Party

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Date: 23 September 2011
Location: 15 Hatfields, UK

Latest US Neilsen Study Reveals Games Dominate App Downloads

Angry Birds at Game Design Expo 2011 by Vancouver Film School

Maybe it's the over-developed thumbs of the smartphone natives? Maybe the news doesn't have the draw that it used to. Either way, it's games that dominate app purchases in the US according to the latest Neilsen research.

NMA reports that of the 300,000 users surveyed in May, 93% bought mobile games, compared with 76% paid for apps with a news flavour. Surprisingly, bearing in mind thse figures relate to a US audience, the second most popular category of downloads was weather. I thought it was just us Brits who were obsessed.

The statistics reveal the top 10 categories of apps downloaded in the last 30 days are:

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