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  1. Webinar 4: ‘Mobile Operator’ 29.07.10

    Date: Thursday 29th July 2010

    Location: Go Group, George House, 36 North Hanover St, Glasgow, G1 2AD
    Live event: 2:15pm - 4:45pm
    Webcasting: 2:30pm - 4:15pm

    Announcing part 4 in our webinar series of online seminars webcast live, with the addition of a ‘live audience’. Attend online or in-person. Plus, its free!

    Webinar 4: Mobile Operator 29.07.10

    Mobile Operator

    An introduction to digital content for mobile, and developing mobile phone applications with Gavin Dutch, Loc8 Solutions:

    • Should arts organisations be optimising existing digital content for mobile phones?
    • What about creating new content for mobile? What content works well?
    • Should we be considering developing a mobile phone application?
    • What’s the business model?
    • Where/how do you sell apps?
    • How do you capture data from mobile customers?

    Each Amb:IT:ion Scotland webinar is UNIQUE and shouldn’t be missed by anyone with ambitions to enhance their digital offering! The webinars have been designed with Scottish cultural organisations and individual artists in mind, and the content and style of the webinars will appeal to those working in the cultural sector.

    Register for AmbITion Scotland Getting Digital Webinar 4: 'Mobile  Operator' on Eventbrite

    What’s it about?

    Bringing the best minds in digital innovation to your doorstep, the Amb:IT:ion Scotland webinars:

    • are masterclasses - about thinking closely around one strategic digital opportunity
    • provide practical how-to information to take away
    • provide good and bad case studies to give you ideas of how you might successfully implement digital developments
    • are about networking and sharing with peers on the same learning path as you
    • can be attended in person, or can be participated live online, or can be viewed online on demand later.

    What will I learn?

    Some of the basics that you will need to decide whether or not certain digital developments are worth investing in by you/your organisation.

    Speaker Biography: Gavin Dutch, Loc8 Solutions

    Gavin is the founder and Managing Director of Loc8 Solutions, an Edinburgh based app development agency, best known for delivering the successful 2009 Edinburgh Festivals Guide iPhone application. The festival application was also the first major trial of ‘hedout’ Loc8’s location-centric mobile content platform. Further to ‘hedout’ based applications Loc8 provides bespoke application design and development to clients looking exploit apps as a marketing channel. After several years as a software engineer, Gavin founded Loc8 in 2007 out of a desire to create mobile applications that are useful as part of everyday life.

    Agenda

    1415 - 1430: Arrivals and coffee
    1430 - 1435: Julie Tait - Welcome on behalf of Culture Sparks
    1435- 1445: Hannah Rudman - Welcome and introduction from AmbITion Scotland
    1445 - 1545: Gavin Dutch - Managing Director of Loc8 Solutions: Mobile Operator
    1545 - 1615: Questions from live and online audiences
    1615: Close of webcast
    1615 -1645: Networking at the venue

    There are a limited number of places at the live event, but we will live webcast the session and make it available on-demand afterwards. Register to attend.

    This AmbITion webinar is produced in association with Culture Sparks http://www.culturesparks.co.uk.


  2. Webinar 3: Tracking Impact

    AmbITion Scotland Getting Digital Webinar 3: Tracking Impact was a great success, attracting our best numbers of attendees and online viewers.

    David Sim from Open Brolly talked to us about tracking and measuring the impact that our digital presence is achieving. Watch the live video of the Webinar below or view his presentation slides on the network!


    The
    Getting Digital Roadshow East in Dundee on 6th May coming up and Getting Digital Roadshow Central in Stirling on 27th May has just opened registration. See the events page for the full live and online events programme and get yourself signed up!

    Previous presentations are available here in the Videos section in the left-hand column; slides are also available on the network here under Rich Media > Slides.

    Are you a writer? Do you know about Intellectual Property? Here is a really useful guide just published by one of our content partners, Own-it: I’m a writer – what do I need to know about IP?

    Finally, just a reminder of this great resource, if you’re still looking for more Digital Development learning materials, Creative Choices’ “Digital Culture“.

  3. Inverness videos up online! Next up, Webinar 2…

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    AmbITion Scotland’s second Getting Digital Webinar, is at 1430, Thursday 25th March. If you’re not particpating in person, then please participate online! Instructions for how view the webcast will be available here on the day. The topic is Talking Online, featuring Mark Forrester from Occupancy Marketing. Sign up and enjoy an hour and a half of excellent online advice, brought to you in association with The Audience Business.

    The digital development case studies from the Inverness Roadshow are now online as videos. Click here for Jane Hogg, Arts and Theatres Trust Fife, and click here to watch Jamie Wooldridge, Ludus Dance and Public Arts at Lancaster University. We’re thrilled to announce that Bill Thompson will be keynoting at the Roadshow South in Edinburgh on 10th June and we’ll ensure he is available to view on demand after that! Take a look at our events page for further information on events we are running throughout the next few months!

    Finally, do make use of these great training opportunities: Creative Choices° is giving free access to over 100 leadership and management courses. Designed by The Open University to fit into busy lives, they will provide the learning your career needs. Sign up here! And Glasgow4Business has a few free courses coming up that are relevant to digitally developing organisations (check out the events on social media and Twitter), and to small businesses in general.

  4. Getting Digital Webinar 1: Listening Online 25.02.10

    Webinar 1: Listening Online

    The AmbITion Scotland eventcast of the Getting Digital Webinar 1: Listening Online was Thursday 25th Feb.  It came to you live from Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh.  You can watch the on-demand video of the event here!

    If you watched online, thank you for your participation to a lively and engaging presentation. Check our Twitter tag #getambition for comments about the event too!

    The afternoon will began with an introduction from Hannah Rudman Lead Consultant on AmbITion Scotland, and featured the Listening Online keynote talk by Mike Coulter of Digital Agency.

    Download a PDF of the agenda here.
    To get easy access to the eventcast on-demand video - signup and follow the onscreen instructions, you’ll receive a link via email from us to activate your account - check your spam if it does not appear immediately. Login to watch.

    READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

    Click to go to AmbITion Scotland’s eventcast website.
    1. Sign up!

    Select the ‘SIGN UP‘ tab at the top of the page, fill in your details and follow the onscreen instructions to activate your account via email:

    Signup, enter your details and you'll receive an email from us with a link. Click on the link to login in.

    2. Once logged in, click the Eventcast tab

    After you have logged in, click on the Eventcast tab

    3. Chose which eventcast you want to participate in

    Select the evencast you want to watch

    4. Select the keynote

    Click Eventcast tab

    5. This is where you will end up

    The eventcast

    Click to go to AmbITion Scotland’s eventcast website.

    (Any problems call our Helpline on 0141 4160868).

  5. Webinar 3: Tracking Impact

    Announcing part 3 in our webinar series: Webinar 3: Tracking Impact, Thursday 22nd April.

    This event is a webinar, an online seminar streaming audio and video, with the addition of a ‘live audience’, for those that wish to be there in person at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

    Tracking Impact

    David Sim of Open Brolly and 4TM will be talking about tracking the impact of your organisation’s activities online.

    This webinar masterclass will look at how people successfully track the impact of digital communication and social media, and how a social media strategy can be made manageable, and what benefits that all has for an organisation. David will highlight some good and bad practices, then show you some tools that will help you track and measure your online impact.

    This AmbITion webinar is produced in association with The Audience Business http://www.tab.org.uk, Open Brolly and 4tm.

    Registration is now open! Go to: http://getambitionweb-3edi.eventbrite.com/ to sign up.

    There are two ticket types, please register to:

    Ticket 1: Attend ONLINE

    Ticket 2:  Attend IN PERSON

    Once you have registered we will update you with details of how to join the webinar online closer to the date, so keep an eye on your email inbox for information.

Scottish Arts Council Culture Sparks Rudman Consulting Arts Council England