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(Previously run by Pete Ashton until he stepped down in April)

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Links for 18th October

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Please go and vote for Shona’s beautiful design. It’s so quick to do and you’ll be supporting Birmingham’s creativeness. Please. Go on
4Talent Central Film Weekender
As part of the Hello Digital festival the local 4Talent folk have put together some film events at the Electric Cinema. On Friday […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted October 18, 2008 in Links | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Companies and such on Twitter

Back in April Pete did a round-up of Birmingham creatives on Twitter.  There have been many additions since then, including accounts registered in the names of various local companies, festivals, etc who are using the (free!) service in all sorts of ways.
Not all of them are being used all year round or even updated all […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted September 25, 2008 in Blogging | Tagged | Comments (4)

Smile on Baskerville

This is a lovely example of how to use that free online stuff (call it blogging, Twittering, social media if you like) to drum up interest in your work.
Twitter is a micro-blogging service.  Smile is a creative consultancy.  Smile don’t have a blog as such but they have a Twitter account and a Smile website.  […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted September 22, 2008 in Blogging | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The CiB Calendar and Twitter

I’ve added a couple of things to Created in Birmingham that you might not have noticed, especially if you don’t tend to visit the site itself because of the genius that is RSS.
Calendar/Listings
On the listings page (there’s a link below the title of the blog too) I’ve embedded a calendar from my own GCal account.
I […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted August 10, 2008 in CiB news | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

ArtsFest need volunteers

Staging ArtsFest is a huge undertaking as a few of the photos on the ArtsFest365 blog hint at.  They seem to have taken on a few volunteers recently but they’re looking for more.  If you fancy getting involved (and I imagine they’ll have all kinds of work) then email artsfest[@]birmingham.gov.uk.
Also, there’s an ArtsFest Twitter for […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted July 6, 2008 in Festivals | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

24th Birmingham International Jazz Festival

I’m very much liking the website for the 24th Birmingham International Jazz Festival. I’ll come back to that though. Meanwhile…
The dates/programme/etc for the jazz festival have been released. It’ll take place across a whole host of venues from 4 - 13 July.
Musicians and bands from USA, Spain, France, South Korea, Hungary, Poland, […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted May 29, 2008 in Festivals | Tagged , , , | Comments (5)
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