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User Centred Design: Techniques to Improve the User Experience

Learn techniques to help you understand your users better and design products which are effective, efficient and engaging, to time and budget.

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Date: 7 September 2011
Location: System Concepts Ltd, UK

Should There Be More Control Over Social Networks?

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It has been widely publicised that the riots we experienced throughout the UK were instigated via social networks. But what is the true role of social networks here, and should we be preventing these services from exacerbating such situations?

There’s no way you could have missed the latest news stories, groups of youths within the communities of England have been causing unrest in many major cities, causing criminal damage, burning down buildings seemingly indiscriminately and looting from all manner of businesses.

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BIMA Awards Entry Deadline Extended til 26th Aug

BIMA 2010

You've got just over a week to submit entries for this year's BIMA Awards thanks to a two week extension, making the new deadline midnight on Friday 26th August.

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London Cassandra User Group: Cassandra vs HBase

This month we are continuing the "Cassandra vs" theme of last month by taking a look at HBase.

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Date: 5 September 2011
Location: Skils Matter, UK

Competition: Win Tickets to the Social Media Strategies Summit

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The Social Media Strategies Summit (25th - 27th October) promises to see the best and brightest speakers in the social media marketing arena present emerging strategies, tactics and case studies in the successful use of social media.

We're delighted that organisers, GSMI, have offered 2 lucky Chinwaggers the chance to win a free conference ticket worth up to £1795.00. 

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Droidcon London 2011

Droidcon 2011 returns to London's Islington Design Centre on the 6th-7th October 2011. Upward of 600 Android enthusiasts will rub shoulders and shake hands with the premier experts in the field to dig into every aspect of Android and its ever-growing ecosystem.

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Date: 6 October 2011
Location: Business Design Centre, UK

Tom Wilkie on "Castle: Re-inventing storage for Big Data"

In this talk, Tom Wilkie looks at Castle -- the core of the Acunu Data Platform, delivering up to 100x higher performance for applications written for Cassandra and other tools.

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Date: 27 September 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Free talk from "Lean" creator Mary Poppendieck: The Impact of the Pace Delivery

"Lean" creator and Agile legend Mary Poppendieck returns to Skills Matter this September. We are very excited to have Mary join us for an in-depth and engaging talk to examine the way in which the pace of software delivery influences – and is influenced by – the development process, the business model, and the governance system.

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Date: 12 August 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

insideAR 2011: the metaio Augmented Reality Conference - from a Vision to a Roadmap

Augmented Reality (AR) will fundamentally change the way how we access, understand, enjoy and share digital information. The vision of being able to point a mobile device camera at anything in the real world and instantly receive contextual information is beginning to take shape as a roadmap to the future of AR.

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Date: 26 September 2011
Location: Munich, DE

The Future for Web Managers: Opportunities for Web Managers to Succeed in 2012

The 'must-attend' event for Web Managers this year. Check out the full programme of The Future for Web Managers: Opportunities for Web Managers to Succeed in 2012 at http://www.netcel.com/webmanagers-2011

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Date: 14 September 2011
Location: The British Library, UK

The Future for Web Managers: Opportunities for Web Managers to Succeed in 2012

The 'must-attend' event for Web Managers this year. Check out the full programme of The Future for Web Managers: Opportunities for Web Managers to Succeed in 2012 at http://www.netcel.com/webmanagers-2011

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Date: 14 September 2011
Location: The British Library, UK

M-Commerce Seminar

This event is a must for advertisers, retailers and agencies looking to establish an M-Commerce strategy or for those looking to improve on an existing strategy.

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Date: 8 September 2011
Location: IAB, UK

Creative Showcase

In this Creative Showcase seminar of 2011, we will present the winners from April to July.

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Date: 14 September 2011
Location: IAB Offices, UK

IAB Engage 2011

The IAB’s annual flagship conference will be coming to you for the 7th year! Attended by over 600 top level delegates, this is the most high profile industry event of the year delivering a captivating agenda filled with thought leading speakers.

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Date: 3 November 2011
Location: The Mermaid Centre, UK

NOSQL eXchange 2011

Skills Matter is hosting the first annual NOSQL eXchange this November, and we are working on a great day of learning and sharing of skills on NOSQL technologies including MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, Riak, and Neo4J.

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Date: 2 November 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK