Strawdog Studios

Date

Tuesday 9th April 2013

Time

18:00 - 20:30

Location

Friar Gate Studios - Café bar

Mobile computing, Apps and your business

In 2012 – 45 billion smartphone apps were downloaded worldwide – twice the number in 2011 In 2013 – mobile phones are expected to overtake PCs as the most common way people access the Internet *

If you’re in business and want to find out more about mobile computing and ‘App’ development – and their relevance to your company – join us at the next free networking evening at Friar Gate Studios on Tuesday 9th April.

Our guest speaker will be Simon Morris, director of Derby’s Strawdog Studios, one of the UK’s leading mobile applications development companies.

Simon’s company honed its skills in mobile games development (and achieved No.1 ranking on Apple’s Appstore for the popular ‘Peppa Pig’ children’s TV brand), and since 2012 has been developing smartphone apps for business customers, including a number of large brands and smaller companies.

Simon will outline the major trends and technologies in mobile computing and apps development, and explain why mobile computing is the future of computing. He will talk about how businesses can embrace mobile technology in their own sales, marketing and communications, and discuss emerging concepts such as ‘gamification’, whereby game design techniques can be used to better engage business customers online.

Simon Morris is co-founder of Strawdogs Studios. He has over 25 years experience as a software engineer and systems architect. Founded in 2003, the business employs 12 people and is based in the Penthouse at Friar Gate Studios. The company’s business application development is carried out by FirstApp – which is a division of Strawdogs.

*  Source: Gartner

Social Media Event

Date

Friday 26th April 2013

Time

14:00 - 17:00

Cost

FREE (normally £49+VAT)

Location

Friar Gate Studios - Café bar

Sweet Retweets: Learn how to write for social media

With Christine Cawthorne from Crocstar Media

 

Book now onto this workshop where you’ll learn how to write effective updates. Perfect for small businesses, start-ups and freelancers who know they need to use social media to get customers, but aren’t sure how.

You’ll find out how to:

- Build your community with Facebook updates that attract likes, comments and shares
- Get your tweets retweeted and see your content spread
- Craft news and blog titles that people will want to read and share
- Talk your audience’s language
- Get the timing right
- Avoid the errors that have left others with egg on their faces.

Christine has produced web content and social media campaigns for the BBC, AOL, Yahoo!, Paul Smith, Pizza Hut and a host of small businesses, charities and non-profits.