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LDP Creative reporter Alistair Houghton on Ignite Liverpool ( #IgniteLiv )

THE much-maligned PowerPoint presentation has become a byword for corporate tedium - but Ignite Liverpool proved that a showcase of slideshows can be anything but dull.

MERSEYSIDE'S creative sector will start growing again in 2010 after a year of consolidation - that's the view from some of the industry's key players.

THE chief executive of inward investment body The Mersey Partnership (TMP), Lorraine Rogers, says Liverpool Hope University's new arts venue could help bring new business to the city's creative firms.

THE CREATORS of a £15m high-speed broadband network for creative and technology firms say it will help Merseyside businesses collaborate with other businesses throughout the north.

HERE'S a story from LDP Creative's sister paper, the Daily Post in North Wales, about the state of the Welsh music industry.
It focuses on the industry across Offa's Dyke, but the challenges will be all too familiar to Mersey music makers.

In the light of today's announcement about @North and the opportunities it could offer to Merseyside creative firms, here's the article I wrote for the September edition of LDP Business magazine about what MediaCity could mean for our region

FROM the 19th floor of one of MediaCityUK's tower blocks, the scale of Peel Holdings' ambition for the Salford Quays site is all too clear.

TWITTER has barely been out of the headlines recently - here's a few links on the subjct you might find interesting, together with some more stories of interest to the creative world.

A SUPPORT scheme to help the region's creative firms attract new investors is being launched by Northwest Vision and Media (NWVM).

THE team behind Liverpool Sound City has unveiled the line-up of its new sister music industry conference in Dubai in what ist says is "a statement of intent" of its ambitious plans for the event.

LIVERPOOL is set to stage the city's second fundraising Twitter Festival - Twestival - with proceeds going to boost the work of Clatterbridge Cancer Research.
Users of the online social media site Twitter - a favourite with celebrities such as Stephen Fry, Lily Allen and Philip Schofield - raised £500 for international aid organisation "charity.water" at the first Twestival held in February, and after being given the opportunity to choose a local charity for the second fundraising event, opted for Clatterbridge.