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Launch48 Weekend - 48 hours to launch a web app

Learn how to build a web app fast and effectively in a weekend fuelled by adrenaline, coding, business planning and anything else you need to do when starting your own project. One of the companies started at the first Launch48 went to Seedcamp Week. First 20 companies to use code L48M-5641-CW get 50% off both the conference and the weekend. Hurry!

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Date: 16 October 2009
Location: PayPal HQ, UK

Launch48 Conference

Learn how to build a web app fast and effectively. Kick start the weekend main event to rip all the benefits from this amazing initiative. One of the companies started at the first Launch48 went to Seedcamp Week only a few months after. First 20 companies to use code L48M-5641-CW get 50% off both the conference and the weekend. Hurry!

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Date: 16 October 2009
Location: PayPal HQ, UK

Word of Mouth Metrics - The Future of Brand Measurement

Behind every successful brand is a successful brand strategy. Developing a successful strategy in turn relies on understanding what consumers really think and say about the brand. Word of Mouth Metrics will bring you up to speed on the cutting edge measurement techniques for measuring how word-of-mouth is shaping consumer perception of your brand.

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Date: 29 October 2009
Location: DMA House, UK

A Creative Budget

Implications of the Budget for individuals and companies in the creative sector

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Date: 27 October 2009
Location: DMA House, UK

Digital Measurement

"Half my digital budget is wasted. And I still don't know which half!" - Is anyone applying direct marketing rigour in the digital world?

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Date: 15 October 2009
Location: DMA House, UK

Local Social Summit: “Connecting with Consumers where Local meets Social”

Local Social is an invitation-only summit for leading media owners (directories, news, TV, radio and social networking), retailers and advertisers who are driving digital innovation in the local and social media space across Europe. We think this “local content meets social media” is an important area, and one that is under-explored.

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Date: 3 November 2009
Location: Institute of Contemporary Arts, UK

Live Music: Licensed To Thrill?

This session will investigate the impact that the Licensing Act 2003, noise abatement orders and Met Police's Risk Assessment form 696 are having on venues, and the live music ecosystem throughout England and Wales - from local authorities and licensed premises owners to music performers and promoters.

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Date: 13 October 2009
Location: The Basement, PRS for Music,, UK

Media140 Talk Marketing Competition: Win Tickets

Social Media landscape Filckr photoUPDATED: Hot off the back of the success of their inaugural event in May this year, Media140 are hosting their latest one day conference investigating the effects that Twitter and real-time social media are having on advertisers, marketers and brands.

Win FREE tickets for Media140’s next groundbreaking event, when real-time web meets consumer engagement on 26 October, RIBA London.

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ASDA fights back at employee abuse on YouTube

ASDA employee

After video clips of a store employee running riot in corriders, staff rooms and damaging stock were posted on YouTube the ASDA fought back with some damage limitation, social media style.

Clips showed My Ayub, employee of the ASDA Fulwood store, licking and stamping on a raw chicken and putting it back on the shelf for customers to buy, he set off fire alarms and cut other employees clothes.

In retaliation employees from ASDA Fulwood branch posted their responses to his YouTube carnage online. The staff members featured in the comeback video look genuinely upset and called for, 

"the person involved to get what's coming to them."

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Pop!Tech 2009: America Reimagined

Held in a beautifully restored, 19th-century opera house, this three-day summit explores major trends shaping our future, the social impact of new technologies, and new approaches to addressing the world’s most significant challenges.

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Date: 21 October 2009
Location: Camden Opera House, US

Hello Digital

Discover the future at The Midlands' second digital festival. Celebrating the awe inspiring possibilities of the modern world, Hello Digital is an electrifying showcase of sights, sounds and dreams turning into reality. An unbelievable adventure to be experienced by people of all ages. Discover the future at Hello Digital

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Date: 21 October 2009
Location: Millennium Point, UK

The Social Web Workshop

Chances are you've heard of Twitter and Facebook — heck, you no doubt use them on a regular basis! But what is it about these sites that make them tick — and more importantly, that make them so successful? The topic of this six hour, fast-paced and high intensity workshop will start there, but cover much, much more.

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Date: 30 September 2009
Location: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, FI

140|The Twitter Conference L.A.

140 is the place where developers, business people, and enthusiasts converge to find innovative ways to tap into the Real-Time Web.

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Date: 22 September 2009
Location: Skirball Cultural Center, US

SES Berlin

Search Engine Strategies SES Berlin Conference & Expo on 24-25 November 2009. German event focused on search engine marketing (SEM), including pay-per-click (PPC) advertising and search engine optimisation (SEO), to be held at Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre

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Date: 24 November 2009
Location: Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre, DE

Serious about Online Child Protection

Little girl onlineWe're proud to have Dominic Sparkes, MD of interactive community management company Tempero, as today's guest blogger.

As soon as you start talking about child safety and the internet, a number of issues start to appear. Socialising online is now firmly a part of modern living for young people and as a growing medium it's inevitable marketers will want to engage their audience via the mediums they are using.

The government is taking online child safety seriously and rightly so. They recently set up the UK Council for Child Internet Safety  and have provided guidance to the industry to enable self-regulation. This has left the marketing industry responsible for navigating a complex web of guidance and law when executing online campaigns which children may encounter.

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