North West property company Maghull Group has launched a major new website, says Mark Jones of city design and marketing agency Creative Liverpool.

The UK’s largest game development community event will be heading to Liverpool in November 2009 in the first Develop Conference to be held in the North.

SME’s & Online Banner Advertising. If most of your customers are local then regional online banner advertising can be very cost effective. It’s one way for SME’s to get their messages out for pretty good value for money if it’s done right. There are some techniques that can be used to help you get more bang for your buck, it just takes a bit more thought and time…..

New Media Age half-day event, exploring the impact of Twitter on brand reputation and promotion. Features sessions on spam, scams and monetisation.

A digital marketing workshop from Liverpool-based Glow new media

Website copywriting, some tips! The web is notorious for either creating a severe case of writers’ block or freeing-up people to write reams of garbage. What techniques are useful for writing web copy that works with the medium and engages with your users?

BT announces the next generation of super-fast fibre-optic broadband exchanges across the UK, but Liverpool misses out on this much-needed investment in digital infrastructure.

Liverpool-based New Mind has adopted technology from Microsoft to be used on tourism sites such as VisitBrighton, which New Mind designs.

The photosynth technology creates a 3D virtual map, almost like being inside a video game. New Mind’s managing director Richard Veal said the company is “taking e-tourism into a new era”. New Mind has created such as visitliverpool.com and visitbath.co.uk which are amongst the highest performing sites of their kind, both in terms of visitor numbers and income. …

Liverpool technology company AIMES Grid Services has won a three-year contract to provide an on-site disaster recovery programme to North West training and consultancy provider Sysco Group. The service streams data from Sysco to the AIMES ISO27001 certified data centre facility at Liverpool Innovation Park, ensuring data is backed up off site in real time. AIMES is the lead organisation behind the Digital Inclusion and Enterprise Programme, which aims to transform levels of digital infrastructure in the Liverpool city region …

Rippleffect is one of the fastest growing technology companies in Europe in 2009 and confirms for the second year its outstanding performance to be listed in the Deloitte Fast 500. Rippleffect have had recent and well deserved run of award victory’s and accolades including being short listed for Digital Agency of the Year, ‘Best Interactive Agency at the NetImperative Awards’ and ‘Digital Agency of the Year’ in the recent DADI Awards (Drum Awards for Digital Industries)

BT announces the next generation of super-fast fibre-optic broadband exchanges across the UK, but Liverpool misses out on this much-needed investment in digital infrastructure.

Will the idea of a £5m national training academy to support Liverpool’s games development sector take the first step of learning from those in the industry?

Many firms desperate to attract more business online are increasingly in danger of being sucked in by novice marketing agencies aggressively selling the virtues of SEO (search engine optimisation) techniques. Experienced marketing professionals with integrity will tell you that traditional SEO when used in isolation from e-pr or digital pr will not generate business, maintains Joel Jelen, managing director at Liverpool-based pr agency, Ubiquity.

The Obama campaign is one of the biggest online marketing success’s of our time. The Internet in 2008 played a huge part in getting Obama elected and changing how all political campaigns will be fought in the future. The whole campaign was executed perfectly and last week it picked up the Titanium Grand Prix advertising festival at Cannes Lions

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Where would you look to find out what’s going on in Liverpool’s Digital Sector? ACME and the Design Initiative represent the creative sector as a whole. ICDC law upon to itself and does little to float my boat. When you start have a proper look there’s not a public sector site that I think is well designed, current and helps showcase Liverpool’s digital sector.

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