June 2009 Blog Posts (41)

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Digital Frontiers

Cross Creative, TRC media’s pioneering training programme for top creatives working in digital media production is now open for applications. (Closing date Tuesday 14th July 2009)





Delegates on the nine-month fully-funded programme will attend monthly seminars led by industry experts and will explore the main opportunities and challenges in the arena both in the UK and internationally. These will be complemented by a field trip to… Continue

Added by Carole Dunlop on June 30, 2009 at 10:35 — 1 Comment

Tern Digital's KNTV Sex wins RTS Educational Television Award



KNTV Sex, the critically-acclaimed alternative education programme, has won an RTS Educational Television Award, in the 11-16 category.



KNTV Sex offers an alternative guide to sex education, taking the form of a 10-part series combining animation, archive footage and specially-recorded live action footage. Aimed at the 14-19 age group, the series offers a frank and funny take on… Continue

Added by Nicola Sinclair on June 29, 2009 at 15:50 — No Comments

MyPolice and Positivity

As some of you know already, I've been working on mypolice.org - a website allowing the public to give feedback to the Police.



We were pretty excited when the Times decided to write a piece on us for this sunday's paper. What resulted was this:



"Police leaders have warned that a new website allowing the public to criticise the service could be hijacked by… Continue

Added by Kate Ho on June 28, 2009 at 23:30 — 3 Comments

Business Models: A starter-for-ten

At Tuesday's Creative Scotland quarterly meeting there was a definite vibe (and a question from the audience) that led me to feel that large parts of the creative industries still feel that having to think about making money at the outset of one's idea is an incompatible requirement with, well, being creative. I'd disagree.



With 4iP we're finding that thinking of how… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on June 26, 2009 at 11:30 — 8 Comments

Creative Scotland Digital Media IP Fund: Videos of event



If you were not one of those present at the Minister's announcement of opening of the Digital Media IP Fund, as originally announced by Scottish Enterprise in November 2008 along with Channel 4's £3m co-investment in the Fund through 4iP, you can catchup thanks to… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on June 26, 2009 at 8:00 — No Comments

Scottish Arts Council Funding Deadline 13 July

I know it's all about the all new exciting, Innovation Funds and start up funds and gitial funds now...but just a reminder that the Scottish Arts Council continues to offer both deadline and fast-track funding schemes across artforms to Individuals and organisations.



The nextdeadline for funding is 13 July and of course I want to promote the music schemes as well as those of all the other departments:…



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Added by Stuart Thomas on June 25, 2009 at 15:19 — No Comments

Is Apple the new Volvo?

"In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrating into the masses." (Stephen Baker)



Volvo's success in the car market, prior to its purchase by Ford, was based on a skimming strategy:



* Build a clear ownership of one niche in your marketplace

* Grow market share by making your success factor critical to adjacent niches and skimming them off

* Target only… Continue

Added by Ray Macsweeney on June 24, 2009 at 16:00 — 2 Comments

The Incredible Hulk Review - Xbox 360

(First Published at SquareGo) With Marvel and the film business having another stab at making a decent Hulk movie, it was inevitable that a game tie-in was on the cards, and refreshingly (unlike the recent Iron Man game), The Incredible Hulk aint half bad. It’s a confusing mess at times and has some serious issues, but it’s a sandbox orgy of destruction that serves up enough fun to keep it’s core… Continue

Added by Dave Cook on June 23, 2009 at 22:00 — No Comments

First Look at The Hub

The Hub, a new center for creativity, encouraging interaction and collaborative working, recently opened in Glasgow's Digital Media Quarter. The DMQ - an initiative by Scottish Enterprise - located at Pacific Quay is the ideal place for creative collaboration and finds itself neighbors with companies such as BBC, Scottish Television, XFM… Continue

Added by Darcie Tanner on June 23, 2009 at 19:00 — 1 Comment

4iP Invests in All Write, creative writing game with award winning author

Broadcast reports that 4iP is commissioning Dan and Adrian Hon’s Six to Start to develop a creative writing game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, backed by national education agency Learning and Teaching Scotland. The game, currently under development, aims to help users tap deep into their… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on June 23, 2009 at 17:00 — 3 Comments

Digital Media IP Fund ready to match with 4iP



Since February the full team at 4iP has been commissioning projects across the country, and today the key co-funding potential in Scotland was announced, in the form of the Digital Media IP Fund, forming part of Creative Scotland's… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on June 23, 2009 at 15:23 — No Comments

Carnival of the Mobilists

Folks involved with or interested in mobile might like to take a look at the weekly Carnival of the Mobilists blog of blogs. I have just published this week's carnival over on my main blog.



The basic idea is that the host collects together the most interesting mobile related posts from the previous week and posts an overview of them on their blog. The hosts… Continue

Added by Geoff Ballinger on June 22, 2009 at 10:00 — No Comments

MyPolice feedback engine wins SICamp Scotland

Social Innovation Camp (SICamp) came to Scotland this past weekend with the help of 4iP and MyPolice.org was the winner in an incredibly tight competition between six… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on June 22, 2009 at 9:30 — 5 Comments

Social Innovation Camp - End of Day 1

So, its the end of Day 1 at the first Scottish Social Innovation Camp. The idea is to take 6 back-of-the-envelope ideas, add lots of people, then try and make it happen over 48 hours. The point is to take ideas that could potentially create social change by connecting people through the web.



This is the 3rd SICamp, and this time round, the 6 ideas are:



Citipedia-An online public town planning tool.



Ex-Changing Places -> Weedayout -Google Maps… Continue

Added by Kate Ho on June 21, 2009 at 1:00 — No Comments

Can Social Media make an impact on Travel and Tourism?

The internet has long been a key component of technology in the travel world. Recent surveys continue to trend upwards in figures that indicate travellers are researching and booking more and more of their travel online. While traditionally the domain of the major websites offering cutthroat airline fares and all the accompaniments, today the online marketplace has expanded into many offerings. The question often asked, though, is: can social media make an impact on travel and… Continue

Added by Andy Hayes on June 20, 2009 at 20:30 — 4 Comments

Using TV as a route to market, the ups and downs

On the back of last week's b.tween in Liverpool comes a rundown of how different online projects use (or don't use) television as a means to market. School of Everything's Andy Gibson points out the different requirements on television of the three projects represented in his b.tween panel: Battlefront, from Channel 4 Education, Landshare, from cross-platform factual, and… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on June 19, 2009 at 10:20 — 1 Comment

Frustrated With Apostrophes?

The Great Apostrophes Debate

I've posted this following a minor (and really good childish) dispute with a colleague. Warning: Lots of alcohol isn't always a good thing.



The rules concerning the use of Apostrophes in written English are very simple:

1. They are used to denote a missing letter or letters, for example:

- I can't instead of I cannot

- I don't instead of I do not

- it's instead of it… Continue

Added by Alec McPhedran on June 19, 2009 at 9:30 — 9 Comments

The growth of social media and our creative industries - in response to posts by Stuart Cosgrove & George Falconer

If I had been able to confine this article to simply 140 characters, than I would have, and the end of this sentence would testify to this.



The power of words has never been more important than during this past week. The Iranian government’s decision to censor media reports, to sever Internet connections, to block texting and international calls and to cut access to social networking sites backfired completely. These steps were meant to make a strong statement that all was well and… Continue

Added by Arvind Salwan on June 18, 2009 at 11:30 — 2 Comments

Scotland's Emerging Digital Talent?

Do you know a rising star in the early stages of their career in digital production in Scotland?

Are you a recent graduate hoping to work in Scotland’s digital sector with a passion for multi media?



TRC media are launching a new training initiative for emerging digital talent and the scheme is open for entries until June 26th.



'Gen Up' is an intense seven-week long course provides in-depth training, workshops and seminars complemented by… Continue

Added by Carole Dunlop on June 17, 2009 at 16:30 — No Comments

Opening for Business

As a member of a company of one, it is hard to keep track of all the things that need doing to start a business online.

For the last few months I have been working on a new product called the "Snappy Birthday Game" . The game itself, is not cutting edge and the code is very simple, but it makes a good replacement for the usual birthday card and a copy can be sent to any email address. When the recipient completes 25 snaps they see the birthday message.

I have finally managed to get… Continue

Added by Rosie Wood on June 17, 2009 at 15:14 — No Comments

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