Today I went along to the West Midlands IT Showcase at Millenium Point in Brum.
Lots of dynamic companies and some interesting public sector initiatives were there to help Midlands SMEs make the most out of technology to improve their businesses.
The following were worth a visit…and the event is still on till 7pm tonight, so not too late to attend.
1. IT Futures – help and advice on e-business
2. NB2BC – organisation with a great website, linked in presence and some good quality training and assists to help with ebusiness
3. Accredit UK – generating a huge amount of interest for their IT Quality Standard
4. nFocus – doing some world class work in test automation for software development. Sam from their team recently spoke at the BCS on some work they’d done for the Government Gateway…he was on the stage with fellow speakers from Microsoft and Google.
5. UKita – just about to launch their new website to help small IT businesses gain more business.
I attended a seminar by Vik Bhatti from iCentrum on social media. He touched on lots of things including crowd sourcing where he puts out a request or a question via Twitter and gets lots of responses back quickly – interesting. He also showed us some great visual campaigns including Will it Blend and Million Dollar Home Page.
Here’s a great video from Scholz and Friends on the dramatic shift in marketing reality.
and a couple of tools that we haven’t used before: Movable Type and Pingfm
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