We will meet at Dukes 92 (18 – 20 Castle Street, Manchester, M3 4LZ) at 6pm.

If you would like to come attend, please visit the MoMo LinkedIn page and for more information on Mobile Mondays please visit their website.

Thinking of a career in the creative sectors?

Looking for the opportunity to develop your creative skills?

Want more information about the creative industries?

Then come to the creative careers event at the Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cavendish St, Manchester M15 6BR on Wednesday 9th February 10am – 3pm. Admission is free.

Register for the Event

To register for the event, request information or book workshop places contact: Elayne Holt or Jess Zadik on tel: 0161 277 1880. e-mail: e.holt@manchester.gov.uk, j.zadik@manchester.gov.uk

You can also call, text or leave a mobile message: Frank Connell on mobile: 07595 278 201. e-mail: f.connell@manchester.gov.uk or book online at www.creativecareersevent2.eventbrite.com

Further information

Exhibitors – 30+ creative businesses and organisations each with table space for showcasing opportunities.

Digital Café – MDDA will be organising a digital lounge where you can come and check your email, see some cool things on the internet or chat to someone about careers in the digital industries. If you work in the digital industries and want to pop down for an hour or so to say hello, or maybe chat to attendees at the event, please email Adrian Slatcher (A.slatcher@manchesterdda.com) (holden side gallery)

Lectures – Opportunities in the creative industries (hourly)

Tours of the Manchester School of Art – hosted by student ambassadors, 30 – 40 minute tour of facilities and studios. (max 15 per ambassador)

Workshops

Hands on making experiences delivered by the Manchester School of Art:

1. Make a statement – Using mixed materials and your imagination, make a wearable statement on creativity and the future (this workshop will involve participants using simple analogue and digital technologies, bringing the two together to construct wearable objects). 1 hour session, max 15
2. Tell your story – Develop your digital expertise with help from the school of art. Participants will explore creative software and digital imaging to create their own “story in an image” of themselves. 1 hour session, max 15
3. A stitch in time – Design your own label and see it produced. Using state of the art technology in textile production, have your own designer label digitally printed to take away. 1 hour session, max 15
4. Quick on the draw – Explore mark making in a range of media, develop your confidence and find your voice! Participants will use everyday media (and large pieces of paper) to explore the use of line and tone in relation to text. 1 hour session, 15 max

When: 26/01/2011 at 19:00 – 22:00
Location: MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN in the Northern Quarter (just opposite Common)
More Information: http://madlab.org.uk/content/get-jquery/

Welcome to the first ever jQuery meet up in Manchester being held at MadLab. If you’re looking to start with jQuery but don’t know what to do first, are quite a dab hand and looking to learn a bit more or class yourself as an old pro there will be lots to gain from getting together and sharing our experiences with this JavaScript library.

The first session will be split up into three main parts: Firstly, you’ll have the opportunity to meet and greet and get to know everyone who wants to be a part of the MadLab jQuery group.

Secondly, the floor will be open for discussions about what you want to achieve from the jQuery meet up. This could be recommendations of live demos, presentations and workshops and is a great opportunity for you to help define the direction the MadLab jQuery group.

Lastly, Jon Vines will be giving a presentation ‘Learning jQuery’, delving into the whereabouts of some fantastic resources and how you can burrow into this information to improve your own knowledge of jQuery. If you want to get involved right away, and have an idea you’d like to share, get in touch with Jon Vines at getjquery@webvines.co.uk If you’re keen to get involved we can fit you into the first session and hit the ground running.

Each event features a panel of experienced digital and social media marketers who discuss social media projects and issues presented by the audience.

The informal networking events offer an opportunity to find out how other companies are benefitting from using free social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to market and grow their businesses.

The next Manchester Social Media Surgery event is on Tuesday 13 July from 5:30 – 7:30pm at Innospace, Manchester Metropolitan University’s business incubator located at 2nd Floor, Minshull House, Chorlton Street, Manchester, M1 3FY.

The theme for the July Social Media Surgery is:

‘Business benefits of blogging‘

Social Media Surgeons:
Adrian Slatcher, (@adrianslatcher on Twitter), Senior Digital Development officer, MDDA – Chair
Karl Brookes, Head of Communications & Marketing, @NHS Salford
Mark Hanson, (@MarkHanson on Twitter), deputy MD, digital PR agency Wolfstar
Jennifer O’Grady, (@jenniferogrady O’Grady on Twitter) MD, Democracy PR

Community groups curious about using social media most welcome.

Manchester Social Media Surgery events are organised by Chi-chi Ekweozor, (@realfreshtv on Twitter), director of Real Fresh TV, the social media training and implementation consultancy, as an outreach project of the popular Social Media Cafe Manchester network (@smc_mcr on Twitter).

Sign up to attend:
http://socialmediamanchester.ning.com/events/july-manchester-social-media

We’re on LinkedIn! *new*
Join our LinkedIn Group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3120264&goback=%2Eanh_3120264&trk=NUS_UNIU-ngroup

About the Event Organiser:
Real Fresh TV provides social media consultancy, training and implementation support on digital projects in the region. Recent clients include Contact Theatre Manchester, Junction K and Xyone. Need help with social media marketing? Contact us http://www.realfresh.tv/

If you’re making decisions about how the internet can enhance your non profit organisation’s capability, we’d like to invite you to a free panel session of North West IT professionals who will be running open ‘micro consultancy’ sessions with your peers from the North West’s voluntary sector.

The first prototype event, ‘Speak to a Geek’, will be held on the afternoon of Friday 27 February 2009 at Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)’s meeting space in Portland Street, Manchester. Get directions to MDDA’s offices.

For two hours, the expert panel will host 20 minute ‘micro-consultancies’; candid insights and expertise in response to audience questions and challenges.

It’s your opportunity to get useful answers and insight to your questions and current internet/technology from a panel of professional tech industry experts.

The panel have years of commercial and voluntary sector experience in areas that are highly useful to a voluntary sector organisation:

• Strategies for using Facebook, Twitter and other Social Media
• How to build effective online communities
• Using open source software for (non) profit
• How to ‘do’ internet marketing properly

If you would like to attend this prototype session (and hopefully submit your own question/issue to our panel), please visit this page to send an email to the organiser.

More information

Check out the Speak to a Geek website.

The purpose of this group is to:

• Increase awareness and promote the use of free software within Manchester.
• Provide a friendly and accessible community for individuals in Manchester to learn about and discuss free software, with particular emphasis on ethical considerations.
• Be a source of information regarding free software to individuals and organisations in Manchester.

Links and resources

• Manchester Free Software group
• Mailing list