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Can help with: business support, advice & strategy, digital product development, connecting you with local businesses

“My focus and time is spent working with small and large companies developing their digital strategy and products as well as having a passion for developing my own products and start-ups.  The buddy system is a great idea as I have a lot of experience with the building, the way things work at the moment and the issues that we would like to solve together.  If you need a little help with getting settled in or with your business, a general ‘coffee/cake sit down’ would be great.  From there, if it’s needed we can explore how I can assist further or make introductions to people internally and externally to help in any way I can’I do all kinds of things but passion for working with small and large companies developing their digital strategy and products.  Also a passion for developing my own products and start-ups.  In general though, for me, the buddy system is a good idea as I have a lot of experience with the building, the way things work at the moment and the issues that we would like to solve together, a general, coffee/cake sit down would be ace and then for me, the exploration of how I can help further or make introductions to people internally and externally to help in any way I can” 

Join Neil Curtis for a spot of lunch on Wednesday 11 October to discover how he generates £10,000 a month from his Amazon-based business. We caught up with him to get a sneak preview of what he’ll be teaching us…

 

C4Di based company My Pockets have been running a year long project for Hull 2017 called Fuzzfeed. 

My Pockets record the real conversations of Hull teenagers then make puppets that look like the teens. The puppets lip sync to the conversations. The project is funny, original and gives the rest of the work insight into the hidden mind of the teenager… 

 

Digitull is just one of those well-deserving winners. The exciting project is a collaboration between Hull Children’s University, Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and C4DI member, Forward Thinker. The online platform allows pupils from schools across the city to upload their creative work so it can be viewed by their fellow classmates and the general public…

This year’s Hull Digital Awards took place on Thursday 7 September and we’re proud to say that many of our members were recognised for their hard work and innovation within the thriving tech industry. 

Moodbeam, a brand new product that allows us to track our moods at the touch of a button, won the award for Best Emerging Technology. We caught up with Co-Founder and Director, Christina Colmer McHugh, to find out more about this exciting device…

 

Yesterday’s digital awards was a magnificent, irreverent, outlandish celebration of the best things the regions digi-tech businesses and startups achieved in 2017. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees – we are very proud of all the outstanding talent in the region.

Read highlights from the night and find out the category winners via the link below.

Pot noodle anyone?

What better way to start off a series of marketing meetups than to get the superpower that is Google involved? That’s exactly what John Gilbert did when he began organising Hull’s Marketing Meetup, getting Becky Boyd, a Google Digital trainer in to talk to us about all things SEO, Social media and analytics. A record 130 rsvp’d for the event find out what we learnt…