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Some links for you: Your last chance to win a £10,000 business grant – Blog – BT Tradespace – Anyone fancy having a bash at winning £10k from BT Tradespace. Entries before end of the year. By the way I'd be interested to know if anyone makes use of Tradespace IBM – Trinity Mirror gets [...]

Some links for you: List and status of UK Local Council Twitters « Local Gov Engagement Online Research – A list of UK councils that are using Twitter in some for or other. Includes Birmingham's transport dept.: http://twitter.com/bcctransport Digital TV changeover: The disaster everyone's ignoring – MarketWatch – This is US TV, not UK but [...]

One of the fiercest critics of this blog (you know who you are) reckons I don’t talk enough about the issues that concern real people. So in order to address this I’ve taken up their suggestion to discuss the worrying issue of recent changes made to Cadbury’s Heroes. It started when, having opened the Heroes [...]

Some links for you: YouTube – c: cubed 08 justbproductions – Here are the videos from the C:cubed event at The Public earlier in December. The event was about 4IP and the Arts Council's Digital Development Fund. The success of market failure? – Economic downturn – Articles – News, views and events – NESTA – [...]

I’ll avoid cross-posting in future but my first posting at the Digital Birmingham blog is about a useful example of how social media can be used by small businesses: I’m always looking for examples of how social media can support small businesses. I’ve raised the question before using the local builder as an example. Why [...]

Some links for you: The Interactive Cultures Blog : interactivecultures – Research team at the School of Media at Birmingham City University start to blog: "The spine of these blog posts will be reports from our largest project: the AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship in New Strategies for Radio and Music Organisations. We’ll be sharing details [...]

It is confusing I know but the Big City Plan Consultation does indeed allow you to answer a question about digital connectivity. There seemed to be some concern that it didn’t but there it is, tucked away at the end of section 4 of the ‘Big City Plan Work in Progress’. If you click under [...]

Birmingham’s Big City Plan has gone live with its consultation process. After initially getting frustrated with the site this morning (had other stuff I was meant to be doing anyway, you know, work stuff) I’ve given it another go and immediately found a question on walking/cycling links between the centre and Digbeth that is a [...]