In this Smart Cookies session, you’ll get an easy-to-digest breakdown of what a PR strategy is, how to build one and why it’s worth having.
Hosted by award-winning PR pro Mel Beeby Clarke, she’ll cut through the jargon to help you elevate your current PR and comms activities to the next level and walk away feeling inspired!
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8:30am – Introduction
8:35-8:50am – Expert presentation
8:50-9:00am – Q&A and close
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This is the last Smart Cookies session before our summer break. We’ll start back up again in September.
If you have any topic suggestions, or are interested in speaking at any future sessions let us know! Just drop Emilly a line at [email protected]
Collaborate Virtual will take a deep dive into the art of collaboration and team dynamics to unpick tricky design problems, forge new networks and embrace uncertainty.
By elegantly balancing strategy and application, our week-long virtual festival interrogates challenges facing our sector and encourages practitioners to question everything they thought they knew about UX and design.
Everyone wants to build a strong, resilient and productive company.
In doing that, it’s essential that Leaders actively plan, grow and protect a culture that attracts and motivates people to be their best selves. And that those people will work together as a highly effective team in the pursuit of your goals. A culture that truly embodies the vision and principles of the founders.
In this session, Sarah will be taking us through the first of 19 stages of their ‘Rocko Rocket’ (a framework for building great companies, teams and cultures)’ and Company identity’.
She will guide us through the steps required to devise company values and behaviours that truly capture what it means to be part of your company/journey. Ensuring these are embedded in everything you and your team do at all stages of growth.
Sarah Williams – Founder and CEO at Rocko
After years as a senior HR professional in more traditional sectors, Sarah took the leap over to Tech in 2015, creating Mango HR, which later evolved into Rocko. Passionate about people, she loves working with businesses that succeed by putting their teams at their core.
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8:30am – Introduction
8:35-8:50am – Expert presentation
8:50-9:00am – Q&A and close
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Register via Zoom: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/8916242941902/WN_dQ2kLOhmTGiCyOfeMIUeGQ
Taking place on 1 July, EntreConf is the dynamic new virtual conference to inspire the region’s entrepreneurs and advisors. To help with practical advice – financial, legal, marketing, management. And to broker valuable new relationships before, during and after the event.
Free conference passes are available via the website, entreconf.com, supplied by the EntreConf Sponsors.
The Running Order for the day can be seen on the website here. It includes three unmissable Keynote Speakers:
Chris Anderson: Owner of world-renowned TED Conferences on wisdom from dozens of inspirational entrepreneurs he’s known plus his own remarkable entrepreneurial story.
Ann Hiatt: Unrivalled top-level first-hand experience as a former business partner of Jeff Bezos at Amazon and then chief of staff at Google. Ann will be talking about business strategies.
Dale Vince: leading green energy entrepreneur and pioneer, also owns the eco-friendly Forest Green Rovers plus a portfolio of green companies, and was the executive producer of Seaspiracy.
Plus highly-practical sessions for entrepreneurs at all stages, provided by EntreConf’s expert partners. Take a look at what each expert insights session will be covering here. Business strategy, start-up help, advice on funding, developing business thinking, exclusive research, futurologising – and much more.
EntreConf also features the EntreLeague. The top 50 of the coolest, brightest, most interesting entrepreneurial businesses in the region. Chosen by a panel of experts, themselves chosen for expertise across a wide variety of sectors and business types: entrepreneurs, advisors, financial companies, lawyers, academics, incubators. These will be unveiled live at EntreConf on July 1.
EntreConf is sponsored by: Bath Spa University, Bevan Brittan, Burges Salmon, Lombard Odier, Rocketmakers and University of Bath School of Management. Plus Associates and Partners: Bristol Creative Industries, Creative Bath, Digital Wonderlab, EIP, MediaClash, PG Owen and Storm Consultancy.
This year, EntreConf is running as a virtual event with a select, in real life dinner in the autumn. The event is organised and run by MediaClash, publishers of Bristol Life, Bath Life, Cardiff Life and Exeter Living and organisers of over 100 events a year, including the Bristol Life Awards, Bristol Life Business Clubs and Bristol Property Awards.
Content marketing creates conversations and helps build communities. It plays a crucial step in today’s sales funnel.
In this Smart Cookies session, Inkwell founder Chris is going to share how to develop a content marketing strategy, from developing ideas and planning different types of content to marketing and SEO.
He’ll give practical examples of campaigns that you can learn from and share tips that you can implement straight away to get better results from the effort you invest in content marketing.
Inkwell creates extraordinary content that shares human stories to build and inspire communities of small businesses. That means working with brands from TSB to SimpleWeb and organisations like Greenwich University to help them grow their audience of small business owners.
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8:30am – Introduction
8:35-8:50am – Expert presentation
8:50-9:00am – Q&A and close
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Each session will consist of a quick introduction, a 15-20 minute expert presentation followed by Q&A, wrapping up at 9am. Grab a coffee, learn a lot and get on with your Friday!
Whether you’re a tech professional, an entrepreneur, freelancer or student, there will be something for you. It’s a great opportunity to learn something new, make connections and join a community of smart cookies.
Come along and be inspired or – if you’d like to share your own experiences – why not contact us about becoming a speaker?
The Engine Shed Series is an event series sharing actionable insights and collaboration opportunities to support building a positive recovery for our economy, society and environment.
The first in the series is ‘The Future of Work’. The event will focus on the new challenges, trends or potential opportunities which have been created through the pandemic for businesses, employees and organisations who play a role in economic development.
Themes will include:
• People and Place: Our views of where we best work, learn and engage has changed dramatically over the past 12 months, from commentary on the “end of the office”, to discussion of the stress caused by lack of social engagement with peers. Employers, developers and city planners have a range of strategic options to try to find the most productive balance, but what are the real factors to be considered?
• Ways of working, technology and skills: The pandemic has accelerated the uptake of new and existing technologies which affect the way we work including extensive digital transformation in communications, operations and decision-making tools. Is this the dawn of a new age of productivity, or are risks emerging which could disenfranchise much of today’s workforce?
• Inclusivity: Much has been made of the broad acceptance of flexible working practices during the pandemic. Has this made career opportunities fundamentally more inclusive, or are we seeing new drivers of inequality emerge?
Hear from
– Cllr Asher Craig, Deputy Mayor Communities, Equalities & Public Health – Bristol City Council
– Dr Harry Pitts FRSA, co-editor of the Futures of Work blog and Lecturer in Management at University of Bristol
– Jaya Chakrabarti MBE, CEO of tiscreport.org, DCMS Digital Economy Advisory Board member
– Zara Nanu, CEO of Gapsquare, Global Future Council on New Agenda for Equity and Social Justice at World Economic Forum
The event will be introduced by Head of Engine Shed, Marty Reid.
In 2022, Google will follow Safari, Firefox and others by disabling third-party cookies in the Chrome browser. This is hugely positive from a privacy-first perspective, but with the potential to cause significant headaches – and a revenue gap – for advertisers.
In this webinar, Tina Lakhani (Head of Ad Tech at IAB UK) joins us in conversation with Ryan Webb (Conversion and Analytics Director at Adapt) to talk about the incoming changes, where we are now and what life after third-party cookies looks like.
Attendees will learn about:
– Why the changes to third-party cookies are coming
– What will be impacted once third-party cookies are gone
– Proposed solutions for a lack of third-party cookies, from Google and the wider industry
– How to make sure your business is fully prepared for life after third-party cookies
About Tina Lakhani | Head of Ad Tech, IAB UK
Tina is Head of Ad Tech at IAB UK, the industry body for digital advertising. Her remit includes facilitating discussion and collaboration among the ad tech community to address mutual challenges, with a current focus on User ID, brand safety and transparency. She is also the UK liaison for the US-based IAB Tech Lab; working to educate and drive adoption of market standards. From a technical perspective, Tina inputs on industry taskforces and the IAB Gold Standard.
About Ryan Webb | Conversion & Analytics Director, Adapt
Ryan is Conversion and Analytics Director Adapt. His team of consultants enhances website measurement and performance through industry-leading Web Analytics and Conversion Optimisation. Ryan has been immersed in the world of cookies for several years, taking the lead within Adapt to liaise directly with Google, Facebook and other third parties, including the IAB, to keep our agency and clients abreast of critical changes to the digital privacy landscape.
Innovative and creative businesses are welcome to join us for a webinar about grant applications and funding on 7th June 2021, delivered by Dr Ben Masheder and Adele Reynolds of Business West’s Access to Funding and Finance Team and James Wheale, Creative Sector Lead at Innovate UK EDGE.
The webinar will discuss grants available to support innovation within the creative industries.
We will cover:
During this special focus session, time will be dedicated on how to apply to the newly announced Creative Industries Fund: fast start business growth pilot from Innovate UK, Deadline for this £25,000, 100% funded innovation grant opportunity is Wednesday 16th June at 11am.
Free registration for BCI members (£10+VAT for non-members). Webinar link will be shared before the event.
More information about Innovate UK EDGE can be found at: https://www.innovateukedge.ukri.org/
To connect with Ben, Adele and James to see how they may be able to support you and your business, email [email protected] with ‘Access to Funding – Creative’ in the subject line.
Presenting creative work can be a challenge for even the most experienced creative. For those in any stage of their creative careers, this essential skill will help you get work bought time and again, both internally and externally.
Led by former TBWA ECD Tom Evans, during this 1-day virtual BCI workshop you’ll learn how to present your work persuasively to increase the odds of your ideas making it to the outside world.
It’s an ideal workshop for those looking to develop (or brush up on) skills for creative pitching, where you’ll emerge as a more confident and more competent presenter.
Alongside the theory of what to do, and not to do, you’ll put your learnings into practice and leave the session with tools to get your ideas bought, time and again.
This 1-day workshop will take place via Zoom. Places are strictly limited to 12 to ensure a productive session.
Tickets are £150+VAT for BCI members and £225+VAT for non-members.
Tom’s background is leadership in design and creative agencies. Having started his career with one of the world’s first digital specialists, AMX Digital, Tom founded Mook in 2000. Over the next 10 years, Tom grew Mook seeing it through to acquisition, first by advertising agency Nitro and then later by the huge digital agency Sapient to form SapientNitro (eventually acquired by Publicis). After a brief stint in fashion on the board of Jack Wills as Brand Comms Director, he returned to agency land as Executive Creative Director of Omnicom owned advertising agency TBWA London. In parallel to his work in design and technology, Tom also founded BleepBleeps, an award-winning hardware startup creating internet connected consumer electronics and digital services that make parenting easier.
Want to create valuable content consistently but struggling to find the time? Join The School of Valuable Content’s monthly Content Writing Club and make it happen.
Getting consistent results from your marketing means producing content regularly. But writing those blogs, newsletters, guides, and books can be hard work, especially if you’re working on your own.
Setting aside regular time every month to work on your written content is a great start. But actually protecting that time and using it productively is key. That’s where the School of VC’s Content Writing Club comes in.
Bristol content marketers Sonja Nisson and Sharon Tanton host a monthly Content Writing Club. We are online for two and a half hours on the third Thursday afternoon of every month.
Join Sonja, Sharon and a friendly group of business owners, freelancers and marketers, and see your content productivity soar!
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