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Event: Employers Breakfast Event, 8am – 9am, Thursday 23rd June

by Kevin 03/06/2011 in Bristol

Does your business make the most of talent? Harnessing staff skills and investing in your people are two of the key ingredients for business success. Come along to this free breakfast event and you can hear about recruitment and training support for your business, including apprenticeships and work trials. You’ll hear directly from businesses [...]

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Supporting local sourcing: meet the buyer event. Register your interest now

by Kevin 31/01/2011 in Bristol

Would your business like to buy more of its good or services locally? Don’t know who to approach locally? Help is at hand….
Bristol City Council is supporting Best of Bristol and the Federation of Small Businesses in organising a ‘Meet the Buyer’ event in June.
The idea behind this event is to support local sourcing. There [...]

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EVENT: Google’s Big Business Breakfast

by Kevin 18/11/2010 in Bristol

Google is offering small businesses in Bristol the chance to create their own website at a breakfast event tomorrow (Friday 19 November).
As many as 1.5 million businesses in the UK do not have a website. Many businesses are not yet online because they see it as too costly, too complicated or not necessary, [...]

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Digital Mission Bristol – Monday 29th June @ eOffice

by Stephen Hilton 23/06/2009 in Bristol

Digital Mission Bristol
Mon, 29th June, 5-7pm (networking till 8.30)
eOffice Bristol, 11-19 Wine Street, BS1 2PH
FREE REGISTRATION

As part of a series of regional workshops to publicise the Digital Mission trips to the USA in 2009/2010, the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and Chinwag will be visiting Bristol on Monday, 29th June.
Digital Missions are a series of [...]

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SLIVERS OF TIME – WHAT’S IN A NAME?

by Stephen Hilton 01/09/2008 in Bristol

I am Stephen Hewitt, Bristol City Council’s Slivers-of-Time Co-ordinator.
As you may know ‘Slivers-of-Time‘ is a Government backed initiative to help tackle worklessness, improve local services and develop skills. Slivers-of-Time IT already operates in a number of places – East London, Hammersmith and Fulham, Leeds and Liverpool.

It is [...]

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Start Up Successes in Bristol

by Kevin 29/08/2008 in Bristol

John Bradford recently posted an entry on TechCrunch UK highlighting and celebrating the range and vibrancy of new technology businesses emerging across the city.
You can read John’s full post here

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Sign up for the ‘New Media Workshop for Business’

by Kevin 28/03/2008 in Bristol

Do you want to increase sales using a new generation of web applications? From online video and conference webcasting to training and ecommerce, speakers will outline strategies for interacting with web visitors and keeping a website sticky to increase its effectiveness at selling goods and service. Hosted by Mendip Media, sponsored by Connecting Bristol and [...]

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The Big Green Bookshop

by Andy 17/03/2008 in People

I came across this blog last week and thought it was another nice demonstration of how people are using “social media” in real life.
When Waterstone’s closed their branch in Wood Green (near me in London), there was a petition online and a local campaign.
When the store closed, the former managers decided to turn the energy [...]

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