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Digital Circle Podcast 05

10 Square was the venue for the first Digital Island Meet Up event in Belfast organised by the All Island Digital Media Network Project. Network facilitator Anton Mannering has already organised similar events in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick.

Davy Sims spoke to Anton and others at the event including Michelle Gallen of Liquid e-Learning , Diarmaid Lynch of Switch New Media and podcast regular Matt Johnston from Digital Circle .

Digital Circle Podcast 04

Podcast Duration 20'.20" - File Size 18.6 megs

In this edition Jeff Peel from Quadriga Consulting who has recently published a paper on Web 2.0 and Marketing. Grace Smith runs postscript5.co.uk.

On Twitter Grace describes herself as "Freelance Web & Graphic Designer in love with web standards and social media." Matt Johnston is Digital Circle's co-ordinator. But in his online life is known as Cimota. He's one of the contributers to Infurious - the people behind Murderdrome the digital comic for the iPhone which recently hit the headlines when Apple decided that cartoon gore was just not their thing - Have they never watched the Simpsons?

They join Davy Sims to discuss digital marketing and promotion in Northern Ireland, but more importantly from Northern Ireland to the world.The Digital Circle Podcast is produced by SimsDigitalMedia.com

Digital Circle Podcast 03

Podcast Duration - 19'38" File Size 17.9megs




It’s the Digital Circle Podcast. About, for and listened to in vast numbers by the Digital Content Industry in Northern Ireland. If you don’t know what the Digital Circle is, you can get a briefing from our first podcast.

Russell Moore the Digital Marketing Director of Fire IMC and Cecilia McAllister Northern Ireland Manager of Skillset join Davy Sims to discuss digital skills and training.

“Scotland should get its own digital television channel.” So says a report published on 8 September by the Scottish Broadcasting Commission. The commission set up just over a year ago by First Minister Alex Salmond said that Scotland needed a publicly funded digital channel on the same lines as the Welsh-language channel S4C. Acting chairman of the NI Screen Rick Hill reflects on whether a Digital Channel for Scotland a realistic idea.

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Digital Circle Podcast 02

Davy Sims visits Creative Camp Belfast with interviews with organiser Andy Gray blogger Alan in Belfast and speakers David Braziel , David McDonald , designer Grace Smith, musician Richard Dale.

More Here - http://www.digitalcircel.org/

Digital Circel Podcast 01

Podcast Duration -20'.20" File size 19megs





What is the Digital Circle, where did it come from and what is the ambition?

Those and more questions are answered by Adrian Lennon of beingonline.co.uk who chairs the DC Steering Group, Ian Graham from Momentum NI (the Northern Ireland ICT Federation), and Matt Johnston the DC's newly appointed co-ordinator discuss plans for the Digital Circle.

Also, Mairin Murry talks about plans for Creative Camp Belfast.

The podcast is presented by Davy Sims

Music by www.soundjay.com
The Digital Circle Podcast is produced by SimsDigitalMedia.com

Send your comments to dcpodcast@simsdigitalmedia.com

Mon, 1 Sept 2008

BBC postpones move from R&D headquarters Kingswood Warren
The relocation of the BBC's research and development centre at Kingswood Warren has been postponed "for an indeterminate time", the new BBC director of future media and technology told staff late on Friday.
Source: Media Guardian

A New Battle Is Beginning in Branding for the Web
To marketers large and small, the Web is a wide open frontier, an unlimited billboard with boundless branding opportunities.
For the empirical proof, look at the filings with the government for new trademarks that, put simply, are brand names.
Applications surged in the dot-com years, peaking in 2000 and then falling sharply for two years, before rising to a record last year of more than 394,000.
Recently, a new front has opened in the Internet branding wars.
Source: The New York Times