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Posted on June 12, 2013 by Phil

Skills and the Digital Sector – Some Thoughts on a Macro Approach

Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership, on whose board I sit, has recently been given an extended remit by the Government. Amongst other areas, we are now responsible for developing a ‘skills strategy’ for the wide corridor between the coastal strip around Brighton up ‘Route23’ to London. As finding the right people with the right skills is usually what digital businesses tell me is their number one challenge, I think this provides an opportunity to rethink approaches to skills and knowledge development in our sector. The approach which the public sector instinctively takes is to see the solution …

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Posted on June 6, 2013 by bomtailey

Brighton Digital Festival Update

We are now less than three months until the Brighton Digital Festival 2013 which seems a good time to provide a bit of an update on the planning which is going on, and highlight some of the opportunities for Wired Sussex members to participate. ERROR_IN_TIME() BY NANCY MAURO-FLUDE + LAUNCH OF e-PERMANENT For those of you who don’t know much about the BDF, it’s a big, ambitious, month-long festival, which runs for the whole of September, and presents a huge programme of activities and events under the strap line ‘celebrating digital culture’. This September will be the festivals third year, and we’re looking forward …

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Posted on June 4, 2013 by TomNixon

Pilot projects underway at The FuseBox

We had the second FuseBox Open Workshop last week. Once again we had a wonderful group of people from Brighton’s creative and digital sector and we made good progress. We clarified the purpose of the FuseBox. We are working towards creating a sustainable model of learning and support to help the creative and digital industry in Brighton to flourish. Building on the ideas from the first workshop, a number of pilot project ideas have been progressed. We fleshed out the ideas, worked out who’s taking ownership and what the next steps are. A summary of what’s happening is below, and …

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Posted on June 4, 2013 by Laura

Creative, Digital & IT Open Studios 2013: Call for Participants

For 5 days this September, Brighton based Wired Sussex member companies are invited to open their doors as part of Creative, Digital & IT Open Studios week. Whether you’re a small agency, just starting out or a large organisation that’s well established, we’d like you to take part! What is CDIT Open Studios? It’s a week-long event whereby Wired Sussex member companies can hold their own event under the umbrella of Wired Sussex CDIT Open Studios week as part of Brighton Digital Festival 2013. CDIT Open Studios provides a unique opportunity for the public, students, recent graduates and peers to find out what …

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Posted on May 28, 2013 by Caroline

Jobseekers, here’s a few ways of connecting with us

You may be wondering about getting ahead regarding work once you graduate and are making sure that you’re standing out from the crowd in the hope of landing that all important new job? OR You may already be on the all important career ladder and wondering about other new opportunities out there for you? Wired Sussex are here to help and you are probably already aware that we manage a local specialist Jobs Board where you can sign up for Job Alerts to make sure you don’t miss out on any opportunities. As well as registering for specific alerts for specific job types, …

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Posted on May 24, 2013 by TomNixon

9 ideas we’re developing at The FuseBox

16 people from across the creative and digital sectors came together for the first FuseBox Open Workshop yesterday. We had artists, web developers, makers, coders and more working together to develop ideas for our fantastic new space – The FuseBox. Don’t worry if you missed it. We’re having another workshop at the same time next week: 2:00 – 4:00pm on Thursday 30 May. Register here. The purpose of the workshop was to develop ideas for The FuseBox that we can pilot over the next few months in order to learn what’s going to be most useful for the sector. I …

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Posted on May 17, 2013 by TomNixon

Would you like to help us create and pilot ideas for The FuseBox?

Over the last two weeks I have been meeting start-up entrepreneurs, industry veterans and others working in the creative and tech to understand their challenges and needs. My goal is so make The FuseBox an inspiring and valuable asset for our industry. Two things have become clear from these discussions: 1) we need to create the activities that happen in The FuseBox together as a sector; 2) we need to integrate the various parts of the sector, fusing together creative and tech as well as people and companies at different stages of development to create a melting pot of collaboration, ideas and …

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Posted on May 14, 2013 by Kieron

The Brighton ‘Digiscape’ – Are you on it?

This month we have a guest blog post for you courtesy of Steve Penfold at Smart Digital Business, who has put together this fantastic map of the digital sector in Brighton using data from our Directory of Members. So without further ado it’s over to Steve: Get your head around the digital landscape of Brighton with The Brighton Digiscape! Quickly see where your digital business fits in, which areas are under-served and most importantly, where you should be driving the direction of your digital business. Why create the Brighton Digiscape? You may already be familiar with the Lumascapes, which are …

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Posted on May 7, 2013 by TomNixon

Getting The FuseBox start-ups programme rolling

Hello, Tom Nixon here. I’m working with Wired Sussex to get the start-ups programme for The FuseBox up and running. If you’ve missed the story so far, here’s the original announcement and a transcript of what Wired Sussex CEO Phil Jones said at the opening party to give you a little context. I’ve had a week to get my feet under the desk and I wanted to share what’s happening over here. During May I am working on the key questions we need to answer before we can get up and running: Who is the start-ups programme for? What challenges will it help them to …

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Posted on May 2, 2013 by Caroline

Our Jobs Board is more than a jobs board

Many of you use our Jobs Board and already know about some of the main benefits of doing so (your job is delivered in a number of ways to the right audience in the local community and beyond), but I bet there’s a lot of you who aren’t using our CV database, the Recruiting Tips, or know about what I do in the background to support recruitment and nurture skills on behalf of our members. For example have you ever thought of us as a gateway to engage with local universities? I work really closely with them to provide information …