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I’m really excited to share that Samrana Hussain, business reporter at Crain’s Manchester Business, the highly regarded weekly business newspaper for Greater Manchester will be attending the Social Media Surgery later this month.

Manchester Social Media Surgery events offer real life advice and case studies from an experienced panel of digital and social media marketers who discuss social media projects and issues presented by the audience.

As shared earlier in the week, Hussain reported on the free Social Media Surgery events on Crain’s Manchester Business and I’m delighted that the experienced journalist is joining us at the event on Tuesday April 13.  Hussain recently joined Manchester Crain’s Business from ITV Granada.

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You have to wait 10 weeks for a blog post and then two tumble out in two days!

As I shared in the last post, I’ve been pushing hard on a number of fronts over the last few weeks but this is one result I’m really pleased about.

I found out over the weekend that the bid I entered for Manchester to host WordCamp UK 2010 has been accepted, beating Portsmouth’s strong offer.

This can only mean one thing:

WordCamp UK 2010 is happening in Manchester!

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Thanks so much to everyone who entered the WordCamp UK 2009 Free Ticket Giveaway.

We have a winner!  Of the 7 comments left after the blog post since it was published on May 12th, 5 have been entries to the contest.

I ran the numbers 1 and 5 through the Random Number Generator at random.org and 5 was chosen!

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 Wow, I’m completely blown away by this.

Paul Robinson, seasoned tech blogger and contributor to the Manchester Evening News, the widely read regional newspaper that shares a venerable heritage with the Manchester-born Guardian newspaper has awarded this site ‘Blog of the Week’ on the site’s The Mancunian Way blog!

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Lovely to see we are getting even more widely read!  We’re straight in at #75 which isn’t bad for a new entry.

Here’s the full list of the The UK’s Top Marketing Weblogs.  It is managed by the splendidly named James Gordon-MacIntosh of Seventy Seven PR.

Excellent stuff.

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It is being looked into and should be resolved within the next 24 hours.

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Such brilliant news!

I’m really excited to announce that I have been short listed for a 4Talent Award, in the Multi-Platform category.

For those who are unaware, 4Talent acts as a talent spotter for the various arms of Channel 4.

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I’m putting together our first Social Media Starter course.

The idea is to provide a practical forum for people to learn how to get started in social media.

It’s a two hour interactive seminar/workshop, packed full of insights into creating and executing social media and content marketing campaigns that work on the web.

Keeping with the classroom theme, I’m deliberately keeping it small with attendance limited to only 20 places.

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We have a winner!

Congratulations to Nathan Keller whose entry got the most votes in the 5 day ‘comment contest’ that was the 5 Day PUMA Manchester Giveaway.

Nathan wins 5 pairs of tickets to an exclusive Hadouken! gig at Manchester’s Moho Live on June 17th and a pair of USAN trainers from PUMA’s Runway Collection.

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I’ve uninstalled Disqus, the third-party blog commenting system I installed a week ago on the Real Fresh TV website and blog whilst I investigate alternative Comment Voting systems.

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