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Creating User Journeys for SharePoint

Dachis Group London is hosting its second 'Making SharePoint More Social' event at their offices on July 26th. An interactive session looking at the creation of User Journeys for SharePoint. User journeys are an excellent tool for engaging end users and demonstrating the change that using SharePoint will make to your organisation.

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Date: 26 July 2012
Location: Dachis Group London, UK

The Story Behind The Guardian's World-beating Facebook App

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In this guest post, Martin Belam, the man behind The Guardian Facebook App, explains the thinking behind the app and where he sees it leading both media companies and brands.

Last September, Facebook promised to forever change the face of sharing on the web, with the launch of new features of the Open Graph allowing apps to automatically share a users actions. Reception, it would be fair to say, was mixed. For publishers it presented an opportunity to vastly increase traffic and reach, whilst for some people it “ruined” sharing. Nine months on, what does the picture look like?

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6 July 2012 by Lauren Cotton

Refresh LX

Refresh LX is a two day event for busy Web Designers, where you can get some serious brain refreshment from all of the greatest speakers in the industry. All of this in sunny Lisbon, Portugal.

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Date: 20 September 2012
Location: Parque das Nações, PT

Cadbury's, Manchester City FC, We Are Social & GlobalWebIndex join Facebook Marketing Conference (18th July)

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With two weeks left to go 'til Facebook Marketing Conference (18th Jul, ICO Conference Centre, London) we're very pleased to announce more amazing speakers joining our line-up from the likes of Cadbury Dairy Milk, Manchester City FC, TBG Digital, GlobalWebIndex and We Are Social.

That's in addition to our already super line-up: we'll be hearing from Nokia, BBC Worldwide, Yorkshire Tea and more! Find out more about our new speakers below.

There are a few tickets remaining, which you can get your hands on for only £145 + VAT. Check out the Facebook Marketing Bootcamp (17th July) for hands on training the day before the conference and if you fancy coming along to both the Facebook Marketing Bootcamp and Conference, grab a combo ticket for just £395 + VAT. Book your place now!

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5 July 2012 by Lauren Cotton

a4uexpo London 2012

Two day performance marketing conference and exhibition covering the most current industry topics and including networking, exhibition hall, content-drive agenda and additional features.

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Date: 16 October 2012
Location: Hilton London Metropole, UK

[Infographic] Euro 2012 - Spain Victorious (on Twitter too!)

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As you know, here at Chinwag, we love a good infographic. And we've all noticed how social media - particularly Twitter - is changing the way we watch, engage and interact with sports.

Euro 2012 set a new Twitter record, with 15,358 tweets per second during the Spain vs Italy final, as we know, Spain won - but it appears that they also won in terms of tweetage (that's a word in the Chinwag dictionary), as shown by the below infographic put together by sports website, thescore.com with Twitter data from Sysomos.

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4 July 2012 by Lauren Cotton

Social Media Week's #InstagramYourCity Competition Ends - See London's 1000+ Entries

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The wonderful Social Media Week competition, #InstagramYourCity, where entrants submitted edited photos of this September's 15 Social Media Week cities, has come to an end!

Running from 1st May til 30th June, here in London we've had over 1000 fabulous entries, all of which can be viewed on our two Pinterest boards:

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4 July 2012 by Lauren Cotton

1 year Anniversary FinTech Pitch competition & Panel session, July 31st @ 6pm, Farringdon, London

You will find this group valuable if you are interested or involved in any area of Financial Innovation, we have a broad membership that includes both new and existing finance companies, providers of capital, entrepreneurs, service providers, academics, technologists and those just interested in innovation generally.

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Date: 31 July 2012
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

Publish! New players, new innovations

Digital publishing is not just about books or book publishers. Technological innovation is creating opportunities for partnerships between different industries including publishing, games, film, mobile and digital. New players, from beyond the publishing world, are entering the market, presenting new challenges and possibilities.

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Date: 19 July 2012
Location: St Bride Foundation, UK

In The Brain of James Gellately-Smith: Accessory Shop in the Cloud

In this talk, James Gellately-Smith describes the experience of building the Sky accessory shop website using a platform as a service (PaaS) vendor, and how the team overcame some key challenges to deliver an innovative solution.

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Date: 24 July 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

MongoDB for Administrators and Operations // 27th & 28th September

Join us at Skills Matter for ‘MongoDB for Administrators and Operations.’ over the 27th & 28th September.

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Date: 27 September 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

MongoDB Essentials // July 24th - 26th 2012

Join us at Skills Matter London for the MongoDB Essentials course over July 24th-26th.

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Date: 24 July 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Ian Robinson and Jim Webber's Neo4j Tutorial // September 10th & 11th

Join Ian Robinson & Jim Webber for this hands-on, 2-day Neo4J Tutorial at Skills Matter London September 10th - 11th.

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Date: 10 September 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Ayende Rahien's RavenDB Workshop

Join Itamar Syn Hershko as he delivers Ayende Rahien’s RavenDB workshop on the 12th &13th September.

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Date: 12 September 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

matchNhack London

matchNhack London is an exclusive event for startups and tech talents. We give tech talents the opportunity to choose, meet and work with startups. We also help startups find the right tech talents for professional work. More importantly, we guarantee personal time for each of you with your chosen meet ups!

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Date: 21 July 2012
Location: Google Campus, UK