The Post RewireHigh5 Post

by Alison on February 18, 2011

Our Rewire: High5 event went very well, and everyone enjoyed the break-out after the 5 presentations. Below you can view the slides from each of the 5 presentations and our notes from the discussions that ensued in  the break-out.

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Rewire: High5 – our speakers

by Alison on February 8, 2011

Our event, Rewire: High 5, that we’re running on 11th Feb as part of Social Media Week is sold out! But if you missed out on a ticket, check back here shortly for images and an overview of what happened.

Here is a run down-of the speakers and what they’ll be covering:

  • Kate Andrews, Social Design Consultant – social media and social innovation
  • Araceli Carmargo-Kilpatrick, THECUBE – building a business through social media
  • Nathalie Nahai, We Make Them Click – social media and psychology – moving online relationships into the offline world

And RewireLondon team:

  • Alison Coward, Bracket – social media and collaboration
  • Justin Small, Digital Consultant– how you can’t afford not to get into social media

We’re looking forward to the interactive discussions and seeing what the participants come up with as their 5 ultimate social media strategies!

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The Value of an App

January 26, 2011

The App store – over a billion downloads, more than 200,000 apps and lots of PR and profit for Apple. But is there any profit in it for anyone else? Certainly there are some high profile cases of apps that have and are making their developers a load of money. But how about the standard [...]

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Why you cannot afford not to get into Social Media

January 26, 2011

It is easy to dismiss the things we don’t understand It is easy to dismiss the things we don’t understand as irrelevant and of no use to us. Take Twiiter – it’s just a load of pointless chatter about nothing. Or Facebook – just a load of needy people collecting online friends because they have [...]

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The Evolution of the Digital Agency

January 26, 2011

In this manic early-decade confusion I propose that a new type of Agency is emerging – the Creative Tech Agency – which is digitally creative, innovative, agile and hungry. I also propose that the traditional Advertising Agency is soon to become a symbol of what we will very quickly look back on as the bloated [...]

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Event: Rewire High5, 11 Feb (Social Media Week)

January 26, 2011

We’re running an event as part of Social Media Week London! Rewire: High5 When: 11 Feb, 1-3pm Where: The Hub, Islington, 5 Torrens Street, London N1 What: 5 speakers, 5 presentations, 5 minutes, 5 discussions, 5 strategies How: Book your FREE place. Social Media.  Are you lost in a sea of hashtags? Do you wonder [...]

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Online:Offline:Online – the relationship between physical and digital space

November 5, 2010

On Wednesday, we were invited to attend Online:Offline:Online an event organised by Found Materials – a consortium of four creative professionals who are interested in exploring leadership models within the creative industries. Online:Offline:Online intended to explore the relationship between digital space and physical space, with a focus on literature, stories, poetry and language.  The debate [...]

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Blurb pop-up store, London: 3-14 November

October 27, 2010

Blurb is a fantastic online bookmaking service perfect for photography and creative work (think MOO for books!).  They make creating your own professional quality publication (for sale or portfolio purposes) easy, fun and accessible.

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Postponed: New ways of working for your creative business (20th October)

October 19, 2010

Sorry! We’ve had to postpone the meet-up planned for 20th October. We’ll be arranging another one shortly so will let you know when that is. In the meantime, if you’d like to write us a guest blog post, or have other events/news of interest to the network, let us know at info@rewirelondon.org.

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The 8 Disciplines of Successful Web Design

October 8, 2010

The 8 Disciplines of Successful Web Design The words on their own are perfectly respectable words, and understood in their more general sense, but when combined they make an unholy matrimony bringing disrepute to design, and a whole industry of cheap, low quality, badly executed sites to the web.Web Design is design without the user, [...]

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