The Case for Manchester Open Data City and the Joys of Courting Corporate Philanthropy

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies

Social Media Cafe Manchester, February 2010, in progress

Here come my notes from Tuesday’s Social Media Cafe Manchester event at the BBC’s offices on Oxford Road.

I’ve been a big fan of Social Media Cafe Manchester since being invited to be on the ‘panel of bloggers’ at the very first event in November 2008.  Whenever I can I try to blog about each ‘#smc_mcr’ I attend, after the event.

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Skillset North Launch and a Quick Update on 7 Wonders in 7 Days

Posted on 05. Jul, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired

Dinah Caine OBE and Peter Salmon at the launch of Skillset North

I’m finally blogging my notes from a couple of key industry events I attended in the last month.  This post is about the launch of Skillset North.  I will blog about developments at MediaCity:UK in a follow up post.

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