Celebrate a Connected Nottingham
14/04/2009 Nott Tuesday is the technology industry networking forum for Nottingham designed to attract developers, entrepreneurs, investors, designers or marketers.
02/04/2009 Medilink East Midlands Innovation day
03/04/2009 Planning a Successful Website - Action Planning Workshop
08/04/2009 Planning an email marketing campaign - action planning workshop
20/04/2009 Selling on the Internet - Action Planning Workshop
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On Thursday, the 26th February Nottingham’s Council House was filled with over a hundred guests and a host of organisations who attended to celebrate a Connected Nottingham, showcasing Nottingham’s cutting edge technology achievements. The evening, which marked the relaunch of the Connected Nottingham brand was welcomed by Jane Todd, Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council. Ian Kennedy, from Cisco who chaired the evening guided guests through a range of speakers from local leading edge technology projects including Game City, Nottingham Trent University, Biocity and Nottingham University Hospitals. Many other organisations showcased their good work including the Nottinghamshire Police, the e- learning team from Connexions, Nottingham’s Castle College, Axis Centre and The National Video Game Archive who entertained guests with old gamming favourites as part of their Save the Video Game campaign. Videos of the speaker’s presentations are now available online. Photos from the evening can be viewed at Connected Nottingham’s flickr group
Connected Nottingham Programme of events In March we launched our Celebrate a Connected Nottingham programme of events, bringing together some of the key dates in the technology agenda from Connected
Nottingham and partners across Nottingham and the county. The programme is now available to download.
It’s your Connected Nottingham What events would you like to see? Do you have an idea for an event you would like Connected Nottingham to host? A subject you would like to hear about or a speaker you would like to hear from? Please get in touch with Hannah Viall
Connected Nottingham star projects Get in touch Is your organisation running or piloting an innovative technology project or initiativeif so we would like to hear from you. We want your assistance in identifying “star projects” so we can showcase them via our Connected Nottingham marketing activities, helping to promote Nottingham as a destination for innovation, enterprise and technological advancement. To tell us about your project contact Hannah Viall
If you would like to request any printed copies of the calendar please get in touch.
Next Generation Nottingham On the 24th March Connected Nottingham hosted the East Midlands leg of the Community Broadband Networks "yes we can" Next Generation Regional Roadshows. Over 70 delegates across the region came together in Nottingham’s Albert Hall to explore and discuss Next Generation Access (NGA). The event heard from a range of speakers from CBN, Communications Consumer Panel, Codeworks, AlcatelLucent, Adroit Economic, Gatesheads Council and Fibrespeed Wales, whilst Peter Goodwin from Accelerate Nottingham and Chris Ford, IT Director of Nottingham City Council provided a local perspective with Nottingham 's latest fibre development Ultraband and developments of Nottingham 's public services shared network project. Presentations from Next Gen Nottingham will be available online. Follow all the latest developments from the CBN regional roadshows on twitter using hashtag #cbnnga.
Explore the future of mobile and flexible working Join Connected Nottingham and a host of technology experts on the 8 th April 1.45 pm -4.00 pm at Broadway Cinema. Gain insight into the global technology trends which are transforming the way in which we work with Philip Ross, CEO Cordless Group and Dave Thomson, Head of Business Transformation Collaboration Solutions for Europe, Cisco Systems Discover the benefits and challenges of flexible working with a local case study from Nottingham’s University Hospitals as the UK reference site for a “ Connected Hospital”. To join us at this event please RSVP to Lucy French.
"Is it really virtual or virtually real?"
30 th April 1pm- 4pm Nottingham Trent University In a flutter over twitter, fazed by facebook or scared of second life? Join Connected Nottingham and find out more from the experts at NTU and GameCity and have a play during this interactive session being held in a high tech lab at Nottingham Trent University. This exciting workshop forms part of a week long series of events for One Nottingham’s 2030 vision Partnership Week, taking place from the 27 th April. Please join us in this half a day session to explore how citizens are behaving and how online communities are rivalling physical ones. Essential learning if we want to create a vision for 2030. Even more essential if we want to communicate with people in 2009! Spaces are limited to 50 Please RVSP to tracy.meadows@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Families will benefit from 150 computers thanks to help from Notts School Djanogly City Academy , in joint partnership with the Elearning foundation (ELF) provided discounted computers to 150 families to help improve their learning opportunities. More.
BT gets communities online in the East Midlands Award scheme gives community groups in the region the chance to move into the digital world. More.
Check out Nottingham in 3D Take a 360-degree virtual stroll through the city using Google’s newly launched 3D map – check out Nottingham ’s market square.
New technology enables Nottingham school to link with Brazil
Pupils at Dayncourt school are using new technology to interact with students in Brazil thanks to a virtual learning system called frog. More.
Call for European eGovernment Awards announced The European eGovernment Awards 2009 organised by the European Commission aim to identify and select good practices on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in public services. Read more.
Have your say on Digital Britain Join the online debate and have your say about Lord Carters Digital Britain interim report.
E-Learning Awards 2009 Launched The primary objective of the awards is to recognise excellence in the e-learning industry - the programmes, projects and strategies, tools and people which have enjoyed the greatest success this year. Read more.
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