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Enabling: Digital Development in the Arts

Get a grip on digital technology http://enablingdigitaldevelopment.eventbrite.co.uk/

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Date: 21 February 2012
Location: Bolton College, UK

Evidon ePrivacy Webinar

Evidon ePrivacy Webinar The webinar will provide a concise update covering the latest advice from the UK’s Information Commissioners Office (ICO), the Internet Advertising Bureau UK, the Article 29 Working Party, and businesses themselves that are working proactively to ensure compliance with the ePrivacy Directive by the 25 May deadline.

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Date: 31 January 2012
Location: Global Webinar

PHP UK Conference 2012

PHP UK Conference 2012 is PHP London's seventh annual conference, building on the success of previous events by expanding to a double-day event, to accommodate the continual growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry.

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Date: 23 February 2012
Location: Business Design Centre, UK

Simon Says: You're Wrong about Spotify

Spotify

"Spotify Paid Lady Gaga $167 For 1,000,000 Plays"

This headline showed the “dark side” of music streaming start up, Spotify. Critics were in awe about how little artists were being paid for their hard work. Despite the short lived pleas from Spotify that they paid more per play people focused on this number, as if it was a bad thing.

Paying an artist less than 1p per play sounds like a raw deal, until you remember Spotify is a marketing platform. Spotify is designed as a service for people to listen to their favourite tracks cheaply. Why does this benefit the artist? Because if you love their music, you’ll go to the show, get the t-shirt and support the live scene.

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Eric Ries, The Lean Startup – London Edition. 16th January 2012

Eric Ries, author of, ‘The Lean Startup’, will talk about what it means to apply those ideas in practice. After the talk and Q&A, there will be networking drinks & everyone will leave with a signed copy of The Lean Startup.

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Date: 16 January 2012
Location: tba, UK

The Emerge Mini Conference

A mostly online mini-conference for all women who love digital design & technology. Featuring FREE workshops & a panel debate held at the British Library Business & IP Centre.

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Date: 16 January 2012
Location: Online and The British Library Business & IP Centre, UK

Simon Says: Google+ has a chance to sit next to Facebook

Google vs Facebook

Google+ started life as an attempt to be another Facebook. If I am honest it did a better job - but then again, it's not hard to stand on the shoulders of a giant (metaphorically speaking). The problem with Google+ is it doesn't offer anything additional to Facebook on first viewing.

Google+ is beautiful and easier to use than Facebook - my mum could set up an account on her own which is saying something. But after half an hour she was back in Facebook. Why? None of her friends were using Google+.

So does Google+ stand a chance? Until recently I would have said no.

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Social Media Conference

From influencing behaviour and raising awareness to recruiting activists, donors, volunteers and fundraisers - there’s no doubt that social media has radically transformed the ways in which charities make connections and develop meaningful relationships.

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Date: 21 March 2012
Location: London, UK

Node.js Showcase

Calling all beginner and ‘hardcore’ Node.js developers! This meetup will allow you to come together to discuss and showcase Node.js related projects with the panel of experts that will be demoing some Node.js examples.

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Date: 6 December 2011
Location: Central Working, UK

10 Scholarships for MEX 2011 (Mobile User Experience) Conference Up for Grabs

Love Your Audience by Marek Pawlowski

News just in that'll whet the appetite of anyone working in the UX world: the folks at ICT KTN (Knowledge Transfer Network for those that don't speak government) have 10 scholarships available for this year's MEX: Pathways to the mobile UX horizon.

The event takes place 30 Nov - 1st Dec at Wallacespace in London and with tickets costing £1,499, the scholarships are going to get snapped up quickly. To apply fill in this application form. The deadline is next Tue, 25th Oct.

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MEX 2011 (Mobile User Experience)

MEX is 2 days where 100 of the brightest minds in mobile, media & design come together to learn, network and create a collective response to the MEX Pathways. Expertly curated by a team passionate about the mobile user experience, this is the 10th international event in the MEX series.

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Date: 30 November 2011
Location: Wallacespace, UK

MobX Conference 2011 / Mobile Experience Design & Usability

We are happy to announce a discount for the Chinwag community of 60 Euros (82 Dollars). Enter the promo code: MobX_Chinwag MobX Conference 2011 Mobile Experience Design & Usability: Meet the Experts! http://mobxcon.org Workshops: Nov 17, 2011 Conference: Nov 18, 2011 Location: Berlin Promo code: “MobX_Chinwag” Must-attend factor: Hot!

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Date: 18 November 2011
Location: Heimathafen Neukölln, DE

Running Lean with Ash Maurya

Running lean is a systematic process for building successful products. Most startups fail. Not because they fail to launch what they set out to build, but because they waste time building the wrong product. Running Lean was developed through rigorous testing of Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques.

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Date: 9 November 2011
Location: London College of Communication,, UK

UX People: One day UX conference

Practical learning, hands on workshops and presentations. Delivered by UX opinion-formers from The Guardian, Public Zone, Shazam and Tobias & Tobias, as well as leading consultants & academics from the UX industry.

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Date: 25 November 2011
Location: Kings Place, UK

UX Brighton 2011

This one day event gives wide exposure to some of the most recent captivating and provocative ideas on User Experience from all over the UK and Europe. The speakers combine the well-known, such as Robin Dunbar, Ian Fenn, Cennydd Bowles and Andrea Resmini, whilst also showcasing new UX speakers.

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Date: 4 November 2011
Location: The Corn Exchange, UK