First South Yorkshire Girl Geeks Dinner

September 3rd, 2010

The inaugural South Yorkshire Girl Geeks Dinner took place at the Barnsley Digital Media Centre on 2nd September.
The event featured two speakers: Silvia Novak from published Faber & Faber and Rain Ashford from the BBC.  Silvia described how F&F is using social media to engage directly with its audiences, while Rain shared her passion for [...]

Free events to inspire CDI businesses

August 2nd, 2010

Business Link Yorkshire has announced a series of free workshops and events designed to support and inspire the Creative, Digital and New Media sectors in the region.
In association with Creative Sheffield and as part of the Sheffield Business Festival, “@BLYorks” includes presentations by games entrepreneur Ian Livingstone OBE (Sept 20 at Electric Works) and music [...]

MCT Summit comes to York in August

July 28th, 2010

The IT Academy in York is hosting this year’s Microsoft Certified Trainers Summit – MCT Live – from 25th to 27th August.
Some 200 trainers are expected to attend the event, which will include various session tracks, including keynotes, IT Pro, developer, Microsoft Office and information worker, BI, SQL, security, IT Academy/MOAC, soft skills and more.
For [...]

The rise of social media surgeries in Yorkshire and the Humber

July 26th, 2010

Working with a large number of partners, Digital 20/20 has now been able to stimulate nine regular Social Media Surgeries in Yorkshire & the Humber, and there are more in the planning stage. Current surgeries take place in:

Bradford
Doncaster
Huddersfield
Leeds
North East Lincolnshire (Grimsby)
North West Sheffield (High Green)
Rotherham
Sheffield Central
York

Social Media Surgeries are relatively informal events where people with [...]

Social Media in Education – a report from “LearnPod 10″

July 26th, 2010

June 30th and July 1st saw a first for the Yorkshire & Humber region, when renowned social media expert Chris Brogan flew from Boston, Massachusetts, to Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to be part of the region’s first “Podcamp” exploring the use of social media in education and training.

Chris is a self-effacing man, and just as personable [...]