Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Raffi Krikorian will be speaking about his career in technology and innovation, working as a hacker, writer, and a tinkerer. Most recently, he has become a member of the API/Platform team at Twitter. He is also authoring the forthcoming book “re:sources”.

Raffi has worked for MIT’s Media Lab, written for O’Reilly Media, founding an R&D lab and working for Twitter in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was a co-founder in WattzOn.com - which was named by Business Week as the “Best Idea” in 2008. (more…)

Adobe Creative Suite 5 launched live online! The world watched as Adobe showcased the most cutting edge software package for the creative industries. You can follow the latest developments on Twitter at #cs5 and if you missed the launch, watch the video at www.cs5launch.adobe.com.

On Tuesday 2nd February at 5.30pm-7pm, the second Leeds Social Media Surgery will take place at the Round Foundry Media Centre (LS11 5QP). This is for anyone interested in using blogs, text messages, Facebook, Twitter and other free websites to help an organisation or group that you belong to. (more…)

The Drum recently announced, the UK’s first twitter awards to celebrate the best of Twitter. A FREE entry encouraged individuals, businesses and consumers, to tell the world why they are the one to follow. (more…)

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…)

Creative Boom is a new online magazine and forum for the UK™s creative industries, dreamt up by Katy Cowan, the founder and director of creative PR agency Boomerang PR.  The magazine has already obtained a substantial following, both on the website itself and on Twitter, and provides a fantastic opportunity for creatives to meet and greet, share ideas and find out about everything that™s happening, from events to news and new projects to feature profiles. (more…)

On Tuesday 21st July 2009 from 2pm, Vocus invite you to attend a free Vocus Webinar. ‘Monitoring the Social Media Conversation‘ will include discussion around Twitter and Facebook. Do you know who is talking about you? Do you know what they’re saying? (more…)

Here at nti we’re always looking to improve and help our customers get the most out of what we do. That’s why we’ve decided it’s time to ask you about how we’re doing, so we can get fit for summer.  We’ve developed a Customer Survey that we’d really like you to take part in, and if you submit your completed response by Friday 19th June, you could win one of five copies of the brand new ‘Twitter Book’ by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein.

Winners will be announced on our website and in our next e-newsletter and we can also put a hyperlink to your website, so it’s great exposure too!

Plus this is your opportunity to tell us what you’d like to see from nti in future, and make sure we’re doing everything we can to help you and your business.  Click here to complete the survey online

So as a first timer to Thinking Digital I had no idea what to expect and wow! The speakers today have covered everything from branding to gadgets, music to animation, partical physics to comedy and from the death of cyberspace to the eternity of perfume! It’s been a roller coaster ride so far and I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings. (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…)