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.

If you are a voluntary or community sector organisation, freelancer or creative who would like to know more about “digital technology” and how it can help your work or your organisation it can sometimes be difficult to know where to go for advice and support.

Yet Manchester has a wide range of digital communities – from programmers, to social media specialists to digital content producers – who meet up regularly to share good practice.

Connecting 2.0 Communities give’s anyone in the not-for-profit sector an opportunity to meet these digital communities – many of whom are happy to provide free advice and support, and would like to work more with community groups.

Watch a video of the First Connecting 2.0 Communities event here.

What you will find out…

At this free to attend “drop in” event there will be an opportunity to :-

- get a one-to-one advice session about your own particular digital needs
- find out more about Manchester’s many “user groups” and informal meet-ups
- hear short introductions about key topics and about other opportunities in the city

Registration

Registration is online at http://c2cnovember.eventbrite.com

Where and when does it take place…

The event takes place on Wednesday 17th November from 2.00-6.30pm at the Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory), at 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN, in the Northern Quarter (opp. Common Bar) Drop in any time after 2.00 – either stay for a short time, or stay all afternoon.

2.00-4.30 Drop in any time you want

4.30-5.30 Panel discussion on Social Media

5.30-5.45 Questions to the panel

5.45-6.30 Drop in Continues

Why register…

It’s a drop-in so you don’t have to book a place to attend, but if you do, we can send you an update on the lineup, and also you can let us know if you have any access requirements. The drop-in is on the ground floor of Madlab, but the presentations may take place on the 2nd floor and there is no lift, so please let us know if this is a problem so that we can make arrangements accordingly.

I can’t come for the whole event…

We’ve arranged the event to be as flexible as possible. If you want to come at 2.00 and stay all afternoon, or come at 6.00 for the last half hour that’s absolutely fine. The city centre location means that if you are passing through town after work then you can pop in. So don’t worry if you’re not able to come for the whole afternoon.

It sounds great, but I’m busy that day…

We will be running a further Connecting 2.0 Communities event at Madlab in late January.

Our Digital Experts

Guy Lancaster, MMU Web Angels http://www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/idea/webangels/

Alastair Beech, Freelance http://alistairbeech.posterous.com

Adrian Slatcher & Alan Holding, MDDA http://www.manchesterdda.com

Nigel Barlow, Inside the M60 http://insidethem60.journallocal.co.uk

Paul Webster, NAVCA http://www.ictchampions.org.uk

Guy Dickinson, Participo http://www.participo.com/

Kate Fox, SoundDelivery http://www.sounddelivery.org.uk

Dan Davies, http://www.mashedfestivals.com

This wide ranging group of experts can advise on a range of social media and web issues – and help you find out how free and easy to use online tools can help you and your organisation.

Need to find out more

For more information contact Adrian Slatcher (a.slatcher@manchesterdda.com)

Find out more about MADLAB (http://www.madlab.org.uk)

We’ve also set up a Connecting 2.0 Communities group on the Social Media Cafe Manchester Ning. We’ll add new resources here when they become available.

Who has organised it?

This event is funded by the Working Neighbourhoods Fund and run on behalf of Manchester City Council. It has been organised by Manchester Digital Development Agency in partnership with Manchester Digital Laboratory (Madlab). Many thanks to all the digital organisations who have agreed to attend to make this event happen.

Facebook is now being valued at more than $33bn (£21.3bn) as investors try to secure a stake in the social networking site in anticipation of its flotation on the US stock market (Guardian). Put this in contrast with the value of some of the best known tech companies: Apple: $219bn, Microsoft: $208bn, IBM: $157bn, Google: $143bn, Cisco: $120bn, Intel: $102bn, HP: $89bn, eBay: $30bn, Dell: $22bn and Yahoo: $18bn.

Most of us dream of listing our tech companies one day. Some of us have already achieved this dream or in the process of going through such a journey. If listing is an option for your company, you need to start preparing for it now as the time period from decision to IPO could well take 3 years or more.

If you are interested or involved in IPOs, this is the event for you. Our key objective is to stimulate the discussion of listings once again in the north west of England.

Speakers and Panelists (more to be added)

Marcus Stuttard, CEO, London Stock Exchange – Alternative Investment Market (AIM)

Anish Kapoor – ex CFO Telecity and CEO Yuuguu.com

John McGuire, CEO, FreshTL

Simon Elms – Warthog, Tiger Telematics and Image Metrics

When

8th November – 6pm – 9pm

Where

Horwath Clark Whitehill

Fee

Maximum Capacity: 50 (last two events were sold out!)
£35 + VAT (£41.13) until 5th Nov
£50 + VAT (£58.75) on 8th November
Event is free for Members.
Event is catered.

More Information

More information can be found on the techcelerate Website

An introduction to the Twitter phenomenon from Tom Stables, with insights into how businesses are using this medium to hook new customers and build brand loyalty. Tom will also be demonstrating a live Twitter session for those unfamiliar with the hows and whys of this platform.

Social Media: What’s All the Noise

Bruce Thomas is the MD of modern-english, one of the UK’s leading social media development agencies. Working mainly with entertainment brands across the UK, modern-english have recently been appointed as the English Cricket Board’s social media agency delivering new ways cricket fans to engage with the sport. Bruce will enlighten you as to the power of social media by mainly looking at Facebook and ways to build a successful user network who engage with your brand. He will also discuss application-led media and mobile applications.

Social Media and How It All Links In

Dan Sodergren is the founder of Great Marketing Works and is Innospace’s own start up marketing specialist. Having been there, see it and done it with many different marketing mediums, award winning companies, Dan has helped over 2000 businesses start up successfully with his intergrated marketing approach. Dan is here to help you get a feel of how social media might work inside your marketing plan to show how Linkedin could make a huge difference to your business practice

Timetable

1.45pm – Arrive
2.00pm – Twitter and the Power of the Tweet
2.30pm – Twitter Q&A
3.00pm – Social Media: What’s All the Noise?
3.30pm – Social Media Q&A
4.00pm – Social Media and How It All Links In
4.30pm – LinkedIn Q&A
5.00pm – Networking
5.20pm – End

Location

Innospace, 47 Chorlton Street, Manchester, M1 3FY (map)

Register

To register for this FREE event please visit the Event Bright page.

We increasingly use digital tools for everything: to find jobs, to socialise, to shop, even to define who we are. Thus it is urgent to ensure that everyone is able to make an informed choice about using the Internet
and related technologies. Of the 17 million people in the UK who currently don’t use the Internet it is believed that 6 million of these are both socially and digitally excluded. We celebrate the arrival of the Digital
Region in South Yorkshire by asking: beyond access what is necessary to support people in exploring their potential?

Socially engaged art projects are the unsung success stories of digital engagement. They may be small in scope and intensive in execution, but they point the way to new processes and methods of interest in enfranchising the communities overlooked by more broadbrushed or centralised approaches. Through panel discussions, talks, demonstrations and participatory activities the Inspiring Digital Engagement Festival will focus on the following questions:

- What does art bring that policy doesn’t?

- Is it appropriate to expect artistic practice to conform to public sector
metrics?

Take away:
- Inspiration for digital inclusion strategies
- New networks of practitioners facing the same challenges as you
- A more rounded sense of what we can hope for and why we are trying to achieve digital interdependence.

To sign up to the event, please go to

http://www.eventelephant.com/inspiringdigitalengagementfestival.
We are charging non-presenters £15, which includes lunch.

For more information and to start a conversation, sign up at

http://grou.ps/inspiringdigitalengagement

Follow the Facebook event buzz…

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111044618946008&index=1#!/event.php?ei
d=108562659198925&ref=mf

Co-chairs:

Ann Light: Sheffield Hallam University
Karen Martin: Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL

Advisory panel

• Kevin Carter, Co-lab
• Lalya Gaye, Culture Lab, Newcastle University
• Usman Haque, Haque Associates
• Giles Lane, Proboscis
• Loraine Leeson, cSPACE
• Tim Machin, SHU
• Tamar Millen, Community Media Association
• Clodagh Miskelly
• Benedict Phillips
• Jim Prevett, SPACE
• Gini Simpson, QMUL
• Vicky Sinclair, ArcSpace
• James Wallbank, Access Space
• Peter Wright, Newcastle University
• Hannah York, SHU

You will learn about:

• PHP Language Concepts
• Configuring PHP
• Regular Expressions
• PHP and OOP Concepts
• Application Development
• PHP Web Fundamentals
• PHP Database Basics
• PHP Application Essentials

Recommended for:

As an official Zend Training Center, this course continues where PHP I: Foundations leaves off, and is designed for novice PHP developers who want to further advance their skills in the PHP language and already know the basics of PHP syntax, language constructs, and web site functionality.

Course Outline

Please visit the MMU website for a course outline.

Cost

£600

More Information

MMU also do customised delivery models at a customer’s premises. We are mindful that it’s often impossible to release people for 3 days back to back.
Please visit the MMU website.

Produced by Contact, it is a programme of exchange involving 150 young theatre makers from 12 different companies across the world, who are randomly twinned to work creatively and collaboratively over a six month period, culminating in a vibrant UK based performance festival.

It launched in 2002 as a direct result of the Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme and has since involved over 30 countries including companies from Syria, Pakistan, Trinidad, Nepal, Brazil, Turkey, Malaysia, New Zealand and Rwanda. Partners have included the British Council, Visiting Arts and Liverpool Capital of Culture with support from trusts and foundations and local businesses.

Connecting the world event brochure:

What role will MDDA play?

Currently, MDDA will be providing support for the event but more information will follow soon.

More information

For more information on this event please visit the website.

PHPNW

Where: Revolution, Arch 7, Deansgate Lock, Whitworth Street, Manchester, M1 5LH (Normally in the lounge at the back on the entrance level)
When: 7pm Tuesday 6th July 2010
What: Leveraging JavaScript in your PHP Projects – Kathryn Reeve

For more information and to sign up for the event.

Enterprise Twitter – effectively incorporating Twitter into your organisation

Date: 7th July 2010 (8:30am – 10:15am)
Venue: Peter House, Manchester, United Kingdom
Cost: £75.00

This session will look at:

• How businesses have got it wrong, and what we can learn from them
• Best practice examples of the different ways companies are successfully using Twitter
• How should Twitter be implemented internally
• Getting the most from Twitter including 3rd party applications to supercharge your account and effectively using Twitter’s API
• Reputation and monitoring your brand (and competitors) using the platform
• The future – how will Twitter evolve and what does it mean for you

Visit the website for more information and to sign up.

Exploiting Digital Tools Workshop

What: Exploiting Digital Tools Workshop
Where: Cornerhouse, Manchester
When: Thursday 08 July 2010, 9am for 9:30am kick off to 13:30

Digital tools play a key role in driving innovation in today’s creative industries. But what new tools are on the horizon and how will creative businesses harness them to drive exciting new business opportunities? The Creative Industries KTN would like to invite you to contribute and influence their latest Beacon Project, Exploiting Digital Tools, which will examine the potential these tools have to transform the creative and production processes.

For more information and to sign up for the event please visit the website.

Flashcamp Manchester

Date: 08th July
Venue: Aytoun Building, Manchester Metropolitan University
Flash Camp Manchester is a completely free event organised by the Midlands Flash Platform User Group.
Over an afternoon and evening, experts in Flash, Flex and AIR will share their knowledge through presentations and talks. Come and meet some of the Adobe team, Professionals, Community Leaders and network with fellow developers and designers.

Whether you’re just getting started with the Flash Platform, or consider yourself a pro, there’s something for you!

Full details can be found here.

NSManchester iPhone, iPad and Mac Developer MeetUp in Manchester

Date: July 12th, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Venue: MadLab, Manchester
More Information: http://nsmanchester.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecal

GeekUp Manchester

When: 18:00 Tuesday July 13 2010
Where: MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
GeekUp Manchester takes place on the second Tuesday of every month. It’s a grass-roots knowledge sharing and networking social for folks involved or interested in all forms of technology and creative media.
MadLab is a bring your own drinks / food venue but there is also an honesty bar if you come empty handed.
Like usual Paul Robinson should be collecting the USB Drives and redistributing them for GeekUp “MixTape” Shuffle.

If you plan to attend please register at Eventbrite.

Crew Networking Event

Date: 14th July 2010
Venue: The Rain Bar, 80 Great Bridgewater Street
Following the success of previous networking nights Vision+Media are inviting individuals and companies registered on Northern Exposure to another informal get together on 14th July in Manchester.
The evening will be a valuable opportunity to meet members of the Vision+Media team and network with fellow regional freelancers across all grades.

Register to attend the event

1-2-1 Marketing Surgeries

Date: 14.07.10 – 12:00 – 16:00
Venue: Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Manchester, M33 7ZF
Cost: £15 (full), £10 (conc).

Come and discuss your work or project and get essential tips on how to get press coverage and grow your reputation. These sessions will offer advice tailored to your particular needs, so if your event or project needs an introductory marketing strategy, then this is the ideal place to start. There are five slots available.

To book, call our box office on 0161 912 5616.

Threewitter

Time: July 18, 2010 from 1pm to 5pm
Location: Madlab
Street: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN
Website: http://madlab.org.uk/

The Teawitter Party (#teawitter) is an excuse for Manchester’s lovers of things tea (and coffee!), cake and Twitter related to get together and swap tales, put names to faces and enjoy the best in home made confection! It’s a social gathering, a way to meet friends old and new, and build on the thriving tea party Twitter community!
Please note this event carries a suggested donation of £3.

http://threewitter.eventbrite.com

Dr. Roy Schestowitz, “Present and future threats to software freedom.”

Talk: Present and future threats to software freedom.
Location: The Lass O’ Gowrie’s Salmon Room (upstairs).
Address: 36 Charles Street, Manchester. M1 7DB.http://www.thelass.co.uk/
Date: Tuesday, 20th July 2010 (3rd Tuesday of the month)
Start time: 19:00
Finish time: 20:30

General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be found on our websites.
http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Manchester/Meetings
http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Manchester/2010-07-20
http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/meetings/

Fast Track Digital Marketing Training – 14/15 July

Venue: Peter House, Manchester, United Kingdom
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm

For more information please visit http://www.manchesterdigital.com/

Young Rewired State is returning in August (2nd – 6th) due to the success of last year with a launch event for the Manchester participants.

Special guest Chris Taggart from OpenlyLocal will be joining us to talk about the perils and positives of working with open data.

Where and When

• Thursday 8th July at 6:00pm
• Madlab
• Register for tickets

What is Young Rewired State?

Young Rewired State 2010 is essentially a hack week for young developers across the country to go and build visualisations, digital and/or non-digital products using government data, alongside working developers in businesses across the UK. These will be presented back to government at the end of the week, either in person, or by live stream from wherever you are based.

It is open to anyone aged 15 to 18 (although certain businesses may not be able to take the under-16s) who can work with data, coding or design.

In Manchester we plan to host a Young Rewired State. This event will be a chance to find out more, hear an inspirational story, ask questions and sign up!

We will have people signing up through the Young Rewired State website but you can also recruit in your local area, and drum up some local sponsorship if you like!

Please email emma@rewiredstate.org if you would like to put your hand up – yes government departments and organisations can put their hands up too!

Guest speaker

We will be joined by Chris Taggart from OpenlyLocal. Chris is a “veteran” of the emerging open data scene having established a website and service that scrapes and represents local government data for all.

Chris is also member of the Local Public Data Panel and the Working Group on Open Government Data at the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Chris will tell us about some of the advantages and pitfalls of working with open data, including the valuable lesson of “learning to fail”… (see slides from his presentation at Future Everything)

Who should attend?

This event is aimed at:

• Anyone aged 15-18 with an interest working with data and code, and taking part in Young Rewired State
• Any locally based organisations interested to offer support to Young Rewired State through mentors, kit and/or money

Serious stuff

Please remember to tell a someone that you are coming to this event, where it is, and what time it ends. Or – bring them with you..
Should further details be required, please consult:

• Rewired State blog
• Madlab website (the venue for this event)
• Contact us, the YRS Mcr organisers (see below), via this Eventbrite

Twitter

Follow the Young Rewired State on twitter using the hash tag #yrs2010 = Young geeks + mentors + 1 week

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/