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    Special Feature Blog: Nottingham deserves it, please help us get it

    In the “Give Away” section of the Autumn Statement late last November, the Chancellor announced that £100m would be available to create 100Mbps urban networks in 10 cities. The four “capital” cities (London, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh) are automatically on the list. Although presumably Edinburgh’s...

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    Technology on Trial

    Friday morning at Galleries of Justice. In the dock? Digital legacies. Case for the defence: People like to leave their mark. We all like to think that we’ll be remembered after death, that our friends and family will want to leave messages – memories, photos,...

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    New Adventures in 2012

    It’s January again, which, for Nottingham, means one thing – New Adventures in Web Design. NAIWD (as I like to call it) is a two day conference starting tomorrow, Wednesday 18th Jan, focused on the art of web design. It’s a big deal – developers...

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    Guest Blog – The New Industrial Revolution is FAB

    Editor of Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson tell us that “Atom are the new bits” in what he describes as “the next industrial revolution” (1). The last few decades has been a digital revolution, the commodity is bits, tiny pieces of information. Now in the new...

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    Guest Blog – User Centric Thinking

    Web design, content structure, social media, SEO…the digital world can often seem a daunting place. But regardless of technicalities and nuances, any journey to digital success must always begin with the end user. Considering the target audience As creative the majority of us will consider...

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    Special feature blog: A word from our hosts!

    The web is such an amazing medium. It provides a far reaching voice, allows communication between distant cultures, facilitates the worldwide spread of concepts and, importantly, enables the capacity to engender good on a global scale. Of course, we all know this and take it...

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    Itroducing our new Guest Blogger – Frances McVeigh from Zabisco

    We’re joined for the next two weeks by Frances who is part of User Experience Agency Zabisco. We asked Frances 10 questions to get to know her and Zabisco a little bit better. Who are you? Zabisco is a user experience agency based in Nottingham...

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    Guest Blog – Going Local

    Last week marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan. By coincidence I had been flicking through a little book called From Here To There, by Kris Harzinski, and pondering what to write for my first blog post. My girlfriend and I visited...

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    Hidden Treasure

    What a great weekend: sunshine, Splendour at Wollaton Park, and Bar Camp Nottingham at the Hackspace. The 30 hour un-conference, #bcnott, covered a wide range of topics, sharing of ideas and skills, games (werewolf a speciality), and creative networking. The description of a Bar Camp,...

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    Hello World – Guest Blogger @ruby_gem

    Hello! I know the very lovely Charlotte did a mini interview with me, and most of you on twitter will already know me pretty well, but I thought I’d use this opportunity to tell you a bit more about me. There’s work Gemma I’ve been...

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