Manchester Social Media Surgery welcomes Crain’s Manchester Business

Posted on 01. Apr, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Announcements, Social Media Strategies

Crains Manchester Business, the highly regarded weekly business newspaper for Greater Manchester

Highly regarded weekly business newspaper for Greater Manchester

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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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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NOISE Lab – Manchester’s Audacious Pop Up Store For Creative City Centre Urbanites

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired

 T-shirt: Mark Wigan creation on sale at NOISE Lab, Manchester

T-shirt: Mark Wigan creation on sale at NOISE Lab

I really enjoyed last Thursday’s launch of the NOISE Lab, a ‘guerilla arts pop up store’ nestled opposite the Orange Shop and next to Boots the Chemists right on the Great Manchester High Street aka Market Street.

Situated in the former Shelly’s footwear outlet, next to Schuh and in prime shopping centre real estate, this incredibly bold 6 month long ‘experiment’ is born out of the national NOISEFestival.com project, an online community where young creatives in film, music, visual arts and many other creative disciplines develop and showcase their (first, in many cases) online portfolio.

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