98 things posted by Alan Holding
Event: Northern StartUp 2.0 meets Government 2.0
Posted on September 24, 2008 in eOffice, Government 2.0, manchester, Northern StartUp, Tom Watson.
Join Northern Startup 2.0 on 24th Sept 2008 at eOffice Manchester from 6pm for conversations with Tom Watson (Cabinet Office Minister), Roy Shelton (Next2Friends) and the best of Northern Digital Companies.
ChildLine reach out with SMS and the Web
Posted on September 22, 2008 in ChildLine, Communities, New Tech, NSPCC.
Children suffering abuse will soon be able to contact the NSPCC’s ChildLine via text messages and the internet. A link through the MSN homepage will also use the “Hide my tracks” feature to aid confidentiality.
About the DEHEMS project
Posted on September 18, 2008 in dehems.
DEHEMS is a project led by Manchester City Council under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development.
Manchester Ofcom seminar
Posted on September 5, 2008 in airwaves, consultation, Ofcom, Seminar.
Looking forward to the switch from Analogue to Digital television, Ofcom have published proposals for how the remaining airwaves will be awarded and would like to explain them to interested stakeholders at a seminar on Friday 12 September 2008.
Host companies wanted for new wave of digital media trainees
Posted on August 19, 2008 in business, employment, opportunities, training.
Subsidised placements for digital companies: helping you find your next wave of new talent.
Benchill Community Centre learner scoops National Achievement Award
Posted on August 12, 2008 in award, benchill, community, web, wythenshawe.
Ann Quigley, a volunteer at Benchill Community Centre, has been chosen as one of six winners in the ‘Outstanding Achievement’ category in the UK Online centres Awards.
Event: Northern User Experience group, 6 August 2008
Posted on August 1, 2008 in design, Events, social, usability.
Are you interested in usability, HCI (that’s human-computer interaction to you), information design and all aspects of the user experience? Then why not go along to the next get together of the Northern User Experience group.
Event: Going Solo, Leeds, 12 September 2008
Posted on August 1, 2008 in business, Events, internet, opportunities.
Going Solo is a one-day educational conference for freelancers and small business owners of the internet industry and beyond. The event is taking place over the Pennines in sunny Leeds, so Greater Manchester based freelancers don’t have far to go to attend.
Call for participants: A List Apart Survey 2008
Posted on July 30, 2008 in 2008, business, statistics, survey, web.
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. Following on from the survey conducted in 2007, A List Apart (a web magazine for people who make websites) is asking for participants in the worldwide 2008 survey of people who make websites.
New ideas on using public information: Show Us a Better Way
Posted on July 30, 2008 in competition, funding, government, ideas, mashup, opportunities, web.
The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated, and there’s a £20,000 prize fund to develop ideas.
