February 2011 Archives
CREATIVE industries support agency Vision + Media has announced that it is to lose 40% of its staff through compulsory redundancies.
The announcement follows a two-month consultation period with staff at the Salford-based body, which supports the North West creative sector.
THE FOUNDER of podcast company Audioboo and the drummer with rockers The Bloodhound Gang will be discussing mobile apps at this year's Liverpool Sound City.
Sound City is this year offering an expanded conference for digital firms to focus on the way technology is transforming the music industry.
THERE aren't many events you can download to your phone and take away with you. Even fewer of those events feature swan pedalos. But then, social media types do like to do things differently.
Last week was Social Media in Liverpool Week, when dedicated members of the city's geek community put on a programme of events to spread the social media gospel.
LIVERPOOL'S self- proclaimed "geek community" is this week hosting a series of events showcasing the way social media services such as Twitter have changed the way we live and work.
MARKETING agency ICE has helped launch a national music competition that aims both to uncover talent and raise awareness of artists' rights.
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