2010 Events

New Venue and New Time

We’ve decided to move Web 2.0 Surgery to Antenna on Beck St. This venue opened in October 2009 and is home to many creative professionals. It is a great meeting space with bar and restaurant as well as business facilities – meeting rooms, wifi etc.
We’re also beginning the event earlier at 5.30pm. This is prompted by feedback from attendees and should open the event to a wider audience.

Dates

The first dates for the year are:

• Thursday 18th Feb 2010
• Thursday 18th March 2010
• Thursday 15th April 2010

eBusiness Champions – Google Analytics

The next eBusiness Champions event is on Thursday 26 28th January 2010 at Cape, Victoria St, Nottingham.

The event will cover Google Analytics topics including setup, metrics, goals, filters, benchmarking and reporting. This will be an ideal introduction to the subject for those who are not yet using the tool and those you have not yet mastered it. If you are trying to understand how customers use your site and understand more about conversions, this session will help.

Please register your interest in the event.

Web 2.0 In Your Business Workshop

Ingenuity Gateway are holding a workshop on Web 2.0 In Your Business on 21st January 2010 at the Colin Campbell Building, University of Nottingham Innovation Park, Triumph Lane.

This interactive workshop, specifically developed for small and medium sized businesses, will:

• Illustrate why your business needs an internet strategy that goes beyond your own web site
• Show you how to use “web services” creatively for your business
• Demonstrate how you can reduce costs and improve effectiveness by adopting “software as a service” rather than spending money on “software in a box”
• Give you plenty of low-cost or no-cost ideas that you can try for real to enhance your business

The course is delivered by will be delivered by Christopher Barnatt, Associate Professor of Computing and Organisations at Nottingham University Business School, and recent presenter of the “Challenging Reality” TV series on Sky, and Mark Daintree, Teaching Fellow and Web & Database Programmer in Nottingham University Business School.

The Web 2.0 In Your Business workshop is priced at £50 per person and includes a copy of all the material delivered throughout the workshop.

eBusiness Champions Christmas Event

eBusiness Champions are holding another free event at the Playhouse and this time its festive. The special Christmas event is on Thursday 17th December from 7.30pm.

Join the eBusiness Champions team for a discussion on the practical ways of improving web traffic and conversion levels on your website. This is a conversational event following the first ‘proper’ event entitled ‘Traffic up, enquiries up, business up – the Halsbury.com success story’, it featured insights into how web traffic levels and conversion rates at www.halsbury.com were radically improved using simple practical changes.

Food is being sponsored by the Axis Centre so sign up today to join this Christmas Social.

Ebusiness Club Courses

Ebusiness Club is once again running its very popular training courses. At this point in time, they are all fully booked up but waiting lists are available.

• Google Analytics and Website Conversion Optimisation
• SEO
• Online Marketing
• Email Marketing

Everyone who attends these courses finds them to be of great value so make sure you sign up for news on future courses.

November Experts

The next Web 2.0 Surgery is to be held on Thursday 19th November 2009 from 6:30pm at Cape, Victoria St, Nottingham NG1 2EW. View map

The Experts in Attendance for the seventh Web 2.0 Surgery will be:

• Jamie Huskisson – Web development – Magento, Wordpress, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript
• Edward Lewis – Online Marketing, SEO, PPC
• Caron-Jane Lyon – Web 2 & Social Media orientation, Mobile & Live Social Media tools, Virtual World – Second Life

Bring your Web 2.0 questions for our Web 2.0 experts.

You can register your interest in the event on Facebook, LinkedIn or Network Nottingham. For regular updates on Web 2.0 Surgery, please signup to the newsletter.

If you are an expert interested in attending the event, or you are looking for an expert with a particular skill, please contact us at experts@web20surgery.com.

October Experts

The next Web 2.0 Surgery is to be held on Thursday 29th October 2009 from 6:30pm at Cape, Victoria St, Nottingham NG1 2EW. View map

The Experts in Attendance for the seventh Web 2.0 Surgery will be:

• Jamie Huskisson – Web development – Magneto, Wordpress, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript
• Stu Owens – E-Commerce development, Online Marketing strategy, SEO, PPC & Email marketing
  
• Susi O’Neill – Developing multimedia web content (text, audio and video), blogging and online copywriting, cross-platform production and developing online audiences

Bring your Web 2.0 questions for our Web 2.0 experts.

You can register your interest in the event on Facebook, LinkedIn or Network Nottingham. For regular updates on Web 2.0 Surgery, please signup to the newsletter.

If you are an expert interested in attending the event, or you are looking for an expert with a particular skill, please contact us at experts@web20surgery.com.

Sociable Networking

In a bid to extend the reach of Web 2.0 Surgery to the wider business community, Martin Wright has attended several Nottingham networking events in the past few weeks.

Ingenuity Gateway – a series of breakfast networking sessions with a taster seminar for workshops offered at a discounted price. The Ingenuity Gateway offers a unique way for local businesses to access knowledge from Nottingham University.

Inspire – an established group with presentations and opportunities to network.

Routes2Business – a newly formed group run by a team of experienced networkers and successful business owners.

All these events would benefit those who normally attend Web 2.0 Surgery and we looking forward to welcoming attendees from these events.

If you would like to receive more details on Web 2.0 Surgery, please subscribe to the newsletter.

If you know of any other useful networking events, please add a comment. Thanks.

Web 2.0 Knowledge and Articles

We have posted some great articles by our Web 2.0 Surgery experts over the past few months.

• PPC Advertising – Conversion Tracking with Google Adwords by Edward Lewis
• Social Media Shortens The Gap Of Opportunity by Susi O’Neill
• 6 Easy Steps to Brand Building with Twitter by Alexia Leachman
• Developing your personal brand online by Alexia Leachman
• Time to get SaaS-y? – Considering Software as a Service by Ryan O’Sullivan
• 5 Startup Steps to Finding & Working with Freelancers by Nick Barker
• Ada Lovelace Day by Helen Whitehead
• SEO Planning And Strategy – The Right Way! by David Coveney

Let us know what topics you would like to see covered in the coming months.

September Experts

The next Web 2.0 Surgery is to be held on Thursday 17th September 2009 from 6:30pm at Cape, Victoria St, Nottingham NG1 2EW. View map

The Experts in Attendance for the sixth Web 2.0 Surgery will be:

James Bryant – Video Production and Video Marketing
Caron-Jane Lyon – Web 2 & Social Media orientation, Mobile & Live Social Media tools, Virtual World – Second Life.
Joyce Gemmell – Digital project planning, marketing, networking and web design
Edward Lewis – Online Marketing, SEO, PPC
Stu Owens – E-Commerce development, Online Marketing strategy, SEO, PPC & Email marketing
Jamie Huskisson – Web development – Magneto, Wordpress, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript

Bring your Web 2.0 questions for our Web 2.0 experts.

You can register your interest in the event on Facebook, LinkedIn or Network Nottingham. For regular updates on Web 2.0 Surgery, please signup to the newsletter.

If you are an expert interested in attending the event, or you are looking for an expert with a particular skill, please contact us at experts@web20surgery.com.