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Posted on March 21, 2013 by Caroline

The growth of the local games sector; from newborns to teenagers..

We’ve all heard about the successes of the games sector, especially with the ‘Black Pebble’ companies that have formed as a result of the Disney’s Black Rock office closure. I thought it time to recap and take another look at how they’re doing, especially drilling down on some stats I’ve been examining, and to hear how the studios are managing their workforce to fit in with their growth…. Firstly I can see that over the past 12 months a healthy 22 companies have been using our Jobs Board to post a total of 46 games vacancies (of which over half …

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Posted on February 27, 2013 by Caroline

Wired for Sound 2013 – Even more fun was had at our 2nd charity DJ compeition

Wow thank to all for coming on Saturday to our charity fundraiser and Wired Sussex members DJ competition and social. I think I can safely say that everyone involved had a lot of fun! Here’s an account of the night from one of our lovely sponsors, that not only took part in DJing, but also helped raise a chunk of money for charity too! Digby is an SEO from No Pork Pies a digital agency in the heart of Brighton, but at night he also goes by the name DJ-igby, Wired for Sound DJ. Last Saturday the core fibres of …

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Posted on February 14, 2013 by Laura

Untangling the Wires – TV and the web

Last week we ‘Untangled the Wires’ between TV and the web at the 3rd Wired Sussex ConnectedTV Brighton event. We were really pleased to hear from Nigel Walley, Managing Director of London based media strategy consultancy Decipher. Nigel works at the forefront of the evolving TV revolution and heads up Decipher’s work defining future formats for television advertising. He is the Chairman of the Decipher Group of companies which includes iBurbia, the interactive media research lab and also the chair of Manchester Digital’s TV Tech Group, launched in January 2013. The event covered the theories behind ConnectedTV, the stages of TV evolution, channel branding …

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Posted on February 13, 2013 by Caroline

‘Wired for Sound’ fundraiser event: a bit about the 3rd of your nominated charities – Sussex Macmillan Cancer Support Centre

Following on from my recent blog posts about our ‘Wired for Sound‘ event’s charities, I’d like to present a bit more detail about the last of the 3 local charities local in which our DJ competition and social will be supporting; ‘Sussex Macmillan Cancer Support Centre‘ We are Macmillan Cancer Support. One in three of us will get cancer and it’s the toughest thing most of us will ever face. If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, or a loved one has, you’ll want a team of people in your corner supporting you every step of the way. We provide practical, …

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Posted on February 4, 2013 by Caroline

‘Wired for Sound’ fundraiser event: a bit about the 2nd of your nominated charities – FareShare Brighton and Hove

Following on from last week’s blog post about our ‘Wired for Sound‘ event’s first nominated charity I’d like to present a bit more detail about the 2nd local charity in which our DJ competition and social will be supporting; ‘FareShare Brighton and Hove‘: FareShare Brighton and Hove: Fighting Hunger, Tackling Food Waste and Improving People’s Chances. At FareShare Brighton and Hove we do three amazing things. Firstly we tackle food waste by collecting quality surplus food from the food industry and saving it from landfill. With this food we help support over 50 organisations in the Brighton, Hove, Worthing …

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Posted on January 29, 2013 by Caroline

‘Wired for Sound’ fundraiser event: a bit about the 1st of your nominated charities – Grassroots Suicide Prevention

You should have all heard that we’re running our 2nd ‘Wired for Sound‘ charity event in which Wired Sussex members can give DJing a go, ‘Stick it On’ and battle it out for the prestigious title of ‘Best DJ’ and enjoy a more social style of event for the sector. You hopefully caste your vote along with others to chose which 3 local charities should benefit from the proceeds, and I’d like to present a bit more detail about the 1st charity; ‘Grassroots Suicide Prevention‘. Did you know that Brighton & Hove has one of the highest suicide rates in …

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Posted on January 15, 2013 by Laura

Interface – some background on the initiative

On 29th January Brighton is hosting Interface. If you don’t know about the event, Wired Sussex got together with Shakespeare’s Globe to offer our members a unique opportunity to pitch to and network with 10 of the UK’s most prestigious arts and cultural organisations. Together, we are bringing the Barbican, the National Theatre, the Tate, the Royal Albert Hall, the Imperial War Museum, the Unicorn Theatre, Penguin Books, the V & A and the Rambert Dance Company to Brighton to meet with some of the most interesting, exciting and creative digital companies that the city has to offer. The event …

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Posted on January 14, 2013 by Caroline

ReCreate and The FuseBox – what it means to me!

It’s not often you get to work for an organisation where there’s opportunity to turn the work that you do into something that will really make a difference to the sector as well as the local community. I’m really lucky to be working for Wired Sussex at a time where we’ve managed to win some big projects and to have a hand in helping drive the biggest positive changes for the sector I think Wired Sussex has ever seen. Big projects with EU funding obviously come packaged with a lot of guidelines, deliverables and complex wording, but here’s my take …

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Posted on January 11, 2013 by Phil

Wired Sussex is proud to announce ‘The FuseBox’

Delivering Different Business Thinking for a Disruptive Sector. We’d like to tell you about a new initiative that we are launching shortly. Wired Sussex is creating a new learning and support centre for start-ups and existing businesses in the creative and tech sector. Called the FuseBox, it will be based in New England House in Brighton. Most business support models are based upon the needs of large companies in stable markets. If you are at the smaller end of the spectrum and operating in a disruptive, digital business environment, then we think that a different set of rules …