Posts Tagged ‘Linda Broughton’

The nti Works scheme has been praised by the Yorkshire Post as it featured last week on Thursday 25th March, as an article in the jobs section of the newspaper. If you missed it, keep reading below:

Graduates at Leeds Metropolitan University and its Northern Technology Institute (NTI) are receiving a helping hand as a scheme designed to help them into work has received extra funding.

Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward has backed the scheme that helps digital and creative graduates access training and gain business skills needed to set up their own businesses. By the time the project finished in June, the number of Yorkshire and Humber graduates involved in the training will have reached 60. The NTI Works programme, which provides advice, training, guidance and mentoring to recent graduates, has proved popular since its launch in 2009.

Linda Broughton, Head of the Northern Technology Institute, said “Being part of the co-working community here at Old Broadcasting House offers a unique opportunity for the graduates to learn from other s who have been through the same experience.”

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On Wednesday 21 October, The Loft hosted the fifth gathering of  Leeds Girl Geeks for our Girl Geek Dinner. The day got off to a great start with nti’s own Leia Bassett and Becky Edlin from Magpie Communications being invited on to the Radio Leeds breakfast show to explain what being a girl geek is all about. (more…)

The Loft will once again be hosting the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner on Wednesday 21st October with support from nti Leeds‘ Linda Broughton and Carbon Imagineering™s Imran Ali. For just £15 you can enjoy food, drinks and the chance to hang out with the city™s brightest female creatives, technologists, programmers, entrepreneurs, marketeers and PR professionals. (more…)

We had a two great speakers for last night™s Leeds Girl Geek Dinner at The Loft, which had been planned as part of the Leeds Web Festival LSx09. The weather wasn™t great for the barbecue we had ordered but that didn™t seem to matter too much. For this event fifty guests had bought tickets, again, we had a good cross-section of the Leeds digital and creative scene. It was good to welcome Melissa Sheriff from AQL, and Janine Jacques. We also had some new graduates who came along courtesy of tickets sponsored by Digital 2020 - thanks to Teresa Colley, Tara Hainsworth, Malhia Mahmood and Michelle Lee for coming along, hope you can come to the next one and we wish you the best of luck as you start your exciting adventure into the sector! Through an introduction from  Sarah Blow from London GGD,  Nick Halstead, founder of TweetMeme came along - he was in Leeds for the Carsonified event the next day.

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Well I was hoping to get this up on the website on Friday, but after a full 3 days of astounding talks and fantastic networking, I was exhausted!  Our thanks again go to Herb Kim and the rest of the Codeworks team for a great Thinking Digital Conference 2009.

So.. Day 3 was again varied, including everything from northern talent to piracy, live music to video link-ups, and from the availability of public data to the availability of a free breakfast thanks to G-ti!  There was also a big focus on making your business customer-centric, from demand-driven content to the ‘Whuffie factor’ in social networking. (more…)

What have I learned at Thinking Digital? There™s a lot here and its only lunchtime on the first day. We arrived yesterday afternoon to attend Thinking Digital University. I got the Techbus up from Old Broadcasting House, which was great fun. This was a seriously well-equipped bus “ wireless, coffee, kitchen with fridge and sink, TV and best of all great company. (more…)

Over the last year, Leeds has played host to three hugely successful Girl Geek dinners. On Wednesday 27th May, The Loft will once again host the creative and digital girls. In addition, it will join forces with LSx 2009, the second Leeds Web Festival. (more…)

As technology companies look to reduce cost, investment in new IT systems are becoming a no go area. Yorkshire Business Insider, David Casey, has today written about how companies can make their technology work more effectively when money is tight and features an interview with Head of nti, Linda Broughton. (more…)

Our very own Old Broadcasting House founder, Linda Broughton, has been interviewed on Web Worker Daily.  Writing about the future of work in a post-broadband world, Imran Ali asks Linda what her experience, motivation and challenges have been to establish our coworking spcae that was recently a contender in the Innovator 09™ Awards.  (more…)

For  Ada Lovelace Day the subject of my blog post is Lynette Willoughby.

I met Lynette in 1992. It was my first day in a new job and I as feeling pretty unsure of myself. The first person I met that day was Lynette. She took me for coffee and that was the beginning of our friendship. She is an amazing person, a true friend. She helped me get to grips with my new job as a university lecturer, passing on her experience, offering moral support and encouragement, as well as sharing her expertise in teaching computing.

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I spent Saturday 7th March back at the office, so to speak, when nti Leeds sponsored Think Visibility here at Old Broadcasting House. This conference was organised by one of our coworkers, Dominic Hodgson, aka ‘The Hodge’. Dom is very much into SEO and had managed to gather some top names in the key specialist area of increasing visibility for this innovative conference. (more…)

Geoff Gifford and I attended the Innovator ‘09 awards at Leeds Town Hall on Thursday 5th March 2009. We were pretty excited/nervous/pleased to be shortlisted in the Innovation Catalyst award for our coworking space here at Old Broadcasting House. Surprisingly the digital sector wasn’t well represented as from what we can gather it was just NTI Leeds that made the shortlist in any of the categories. This doesn’t represent the true picture of what’s happening in our region in the digital area. Maybe people are not applying as they are just too busy innovating and working on getting business to fill out the application. (more…)

On Thursday 12th February, new social networking site Twitter started running it’s new worldwide festival event called Twestival in more than 175 cities around the world. Organised by volunteers in each city, ranging from Beijing and Sydney to Capetown and Lisbon, Twestival allowed the Twitter community to socialise offline and enjoy food, drink and entertainment, whilst also raising money and awareness for ‘charity:water’ that was highlighted by Jeff Allen. (more…)