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In-House Digital Marketing Co-Ordinator

July 11, 2011 in Jobs

Type of job: 6 Months Maternity Cover
Location: Redcar
Salary: 
£20,000 per annum

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Digital Marketing manager to assist the Senior Marketing Coordinator within a well established organisation based in Redcar with the delivery of their digital communications, through the maintenance and development of websites and intranet and management of digital marketing campaigns.

This is a 6 month maternity cover contract and requires someone to start immediately.

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BBC opens up digital course to public

June 20, 2011 in News Roundup

bbc_wallA digital journalism and social media course previously only available to BBC staff has been opened up to the public for the first time.

After piloting the course for external journalists in May, the BBC Academy decided to extend it to the general public with the first fully open sessions taking place on 26 June.

The 5-day course focuses on news gathering but also features aspects of strategy and community building.

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North East digital scene can be proud of its start-ups

June 17, 2011 in News Roundup

Paul Smith was one of the speakers at this year's Thinking Digital Conference.

Paul Smith was one of the speakers at this year's Thinking Digital Conference.

One of the region’s best known digital personalities Paul Smith has called Newcastle the ‘Silicon City’, one of the UK’s digital hubs.

Paul, the author of Twitchhiker and creative director at mobile development agency Never Odd or Even, had his inspirational article featured in The Journal yesterday.

In his piece, Paul gave special credit to Herb Kim, the CEO of Codeworks and the founder of the hugely successful Thinking Digital Conference. He said the presence of the organisation has been ‘vital in establishing a framework for events and collaboration’.

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Digital team's new company is fit for fast-moving times

June 8, 2011 in News Roundup

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Status Marketing team with directors in the front row (from left) Graeme Wilkinson, technical director; Stuart Marlow, design director; Nick Salloway, managing director; Neil Lewis, client services director.

An award-winning team of digital marketers have broken away from the existing agency ‘Different Digital’ to launch their own company.

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Inspiration easy to come by on first day of TDC

May 25, 2011 in Features

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Dan Lyons joined in the discussion remotely from Boston.

A familiar spark of innovation and inspiration marked the beginning of the Thinking Digital Conference today.

The fourth TDC at the Sage Gateshead has again so far featured an outstanding mix of world-class speakers and local talent.

Steven Bathiche, from Microsoft, demoed some of the cutting-edge projects going on at the research lab of the corporation’s Applied Sciences Group.

While wowing the audience with some of the new features under development in an attempt to create a ‘magic window’, Steven stressed that technology shouldn’t be created just for the sake of it.

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Catch up with us at Thinking Digital!

May 24, 2011 in Features

TDC11_logo_withinfoThe NMM team is heading across to the Sage Gateshead to get its annual injection of digital inspiration.

We’ll be writing, tweeting, taking photos and interviewing people at the biggest digital event of the year.

You can read our thoughts and share yours with us on this site.

Hope to see you there!

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Football clubs to set the example for accessible websites

May 23, 2011 in News Roundup

(from left) Rev. James Webber, Chairman of Action for Better Access, with Chris Beveridge, Voluntary Disability Liason Officer Blackpool FC and John Kelly, Vice Chairman and Co-founder of Access Network Equality.

(from left) Rev. James Webber, Chairman of Action for Better Access, with Chris Beveridge, Voluntary Disability Liason Officer Blackpool FC and John Kelly, Vice Chairman and Co-founder of Access Network Equality.

Football clubs in the UK are set to excel in following web accessibility guidelines with the help of a new cyber charity.

‘Action for Better Access’ uses cutting edge ROKTALK technology to convert text to speech in several different languages.

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Digital sector has social responsibility to fulfil, says TDC speaker Atau Tanaka

May 20, 2011 in Features

atau_tanakaAccording to Atau Tanaka, Director of Newcastle University’s Culture Lab, what it means to be a creative media lab in today’s society is fundamentally different to what it meant 25 years ago.

Back in the mid 80s, when the MIT media lab was founded and researchers were just beginning to innovate with mobile technologies, ‘being digital’ was still a concept.

“Today, the society is digital – the future has arrived and that changes what’s at stake”, Atau said.

“It changes the social relevance and pertinence of a lab like ours to have more of a social function.”

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Sign up for new North East digital search engine

May 16, 2011 in News Roundup

James Kingett (left) from the Centre for eBusiness with Bernie Callaghan from Sunderland Software City.

James Kingett (left) from the Centre for eBusiness with Bernie Callaghan from Sunderland Software City.

A new free search engine putting the North East digital industry in a single shop window has launched.

‘Supplier Search’ aims to match up local businesses with each other, providing an opportunity to find the right partners as well as new customers.

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Apprentice teams enter the app market

May 11, 2011 in News Roundup

ampiappsThe digital world will never be same after the supremely annoying Apprentice teams created their very own apps.

(By ‘created’ we mean they came up with the brilliant ideas. The apps were made a reality by the leading development company Grapple.)

The winning app came from the girls team. AmpiApps featured a series of annoying sounds such as baby’s screams and animal shrieking. Of course they missed out on the most annoying sound of all – their own conversation.

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