Archive for June, 2008

Local elearning company acquired for £4.75m

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Business

The leading elearning company in Brighton and the UK has been acquired for £4.75 million in cash. Epic, based in the heart of Brighton, was sold to Andrew Brode, a private investor.
He has been involved with a number of training businesses as Chairman of Financial Training and Key Training in the 1980’s. In [...]



Chirrup - bring your Tweets to your blog

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Community, Features

With the rise of Twitter comes the rise in useful apps for your Tweets.
Developed by local bods Angry amoeba, Chirrup is an app that looks to increase conversations that happen on Twitter and websites or blogs. By using replies on Twitter combined with links Chirrup links Twitter comments to your website/blog. You can [...]



Locomatrix - video on YouTube

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Business

I wrote about Locomatrix a while back and have been informed that the video mention is on YouTube as follows:



DIY Copywriting retreat with free cake

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Education

If you’ve ever wanted to smarten up your writing skills now is your chance. Ellen de Vries is delivering a one day DIY Copywriting retreat that includes:

A clear marketing message blueprint to keep and use
A bank of creative words to describe your business
Confidence that your clients care about what you’re saying
Expert guidance, training and [...]



Get a sneak peak at Crunch

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Business, Events

The Crunch team have been working hard away at their soon to launch accounting package. As their launch date creeps closer, they are now in the position to give a few people a sneak peak at their application.
Crunch are hosting a focus group at The Werks and are reaching out to the local Brighton [...]



AfternoonTeaCamp - coming in July

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Community, Events

In true geek style and an excuse to get a bit social comes AfternoonTeaCamp. It’s on the weekend, in the afternoon at The Werks. The idea is that everyone brings something to share and that we can all enjoy each others company.
Being a geek is not essential, though social and good company is.
How [...]



CFDevCon 2008 get your tickets early

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Conferences

CFDevCon 2008 is a 2 day conference happening on September 25-26 for people who would learn the latest in ColdFusion and web technology. Whilst the conference has a focus on ColdFusion it does also cover many other topics such Silverlight, SQL 2008, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and building web services with .Net.
It is [...]



dConstruct - tickets coming very soon!

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Conferences

I just had a peek at the dConstruct’s website and can’t believe it’s that time of year again!

dConstruct is an affordable, one-day conference aimed at those designing and building the latest generation of social web applications.

The theme ‘Designing the social web’ has been revealed in addition to the fact tickets are going on sale on [...]



Flash conference coming to a beach near you

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Category: Conferences, Features

Flash on the Beach, a 3-day conference focused on Flash technology, is back for the third year - promising to be better than ever. It’s happening from the 28th of September 2008, tickets are still available, but won’t hang around for long.
I’ve only heard good things about it which is definitely a good [...]



Coworking just got easier

By Rosie Sherry • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Category: Business, Features, Lead Story

The Werks coworking and creative space opened up their doors six months ago with a commitment to become an open local community. With the space specifically designed for freelancers, indepedents and small businesses they understand the needs of freelancers and small businesses are usually anything but consistent.
The first few months have been a success. [...]