Liverpool agency Smiling Wolf has produced the latest version of the Philharmonic Hall’s website. It follows the last major re-design of the site in 2007 by Mando Group. Just how well does the new version stand-up to the benchmark set by Mando for one of the city’s leading cultural institutions?

Liverpool’s 2009 AND Festival commissions four bloggers to respond to the life and death of a blog site. The piece’s title ‘From Now On This Blog Is Going To Be…” runs from 20-27 September.

Facebook was valued at up to £6billion by experts but, until yesterday, had failed to make a cent in profit. Now, after five years and racking up 300million users, it is finally making enough money to cover its costs. The company’s income is on track to grow by 70 per cent this year.

18 months ago, I would debate the value of social networking for some of our more serious corporate clients. Now, almost all of our clients have some social networking presence. The data available makes it a necessity to at least have a flickr, facebook and LinkedIn profiles, even if to just to protect brand image. 93% of social media users believe a company should have a presence in social media. 85% of social media users believe a company should go …

Read how Liverpool-based SEO company Quba New Media delivered a 12 month strategy and started pushing Sleepmasters up the ranks for many popular searches in Google resulting in a tenfold surge in site traffic.

Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival debuts in Liverpool this September, five days of new media, cinema and digital art.

From FACT: ‘AND is a new space where artists and filmmakers will offer striking perspectives, and visitors can enjoy, discuss and interact with ideas, in a festival that questions the normal and champions a different approach. AND festival will also be trailblazing across the Northwest with a series of taster events and commissions, partnering up with other festivals that rock our world. …

Come and support the Liverpool Twestival 2009 at Leaf Tea Shop and Bar on Thursday 10th September at 18:00, in aid of Clatterbridge Cancer Research.

The North West’s creative and digital sector represents a vast collection of innovative companies whose overall growth is bucking the current economic trend.

As an industry they now deliver a staggering £15.8bn to the region’s economy or in other terms a huge 16 per cent of our total output. Understandably it’s of paramount importance to us all that creative businesses continue to exist and thrive …