Project Brighton - The Brighton Digital Community

A semi-regular update on Jobs at Project Brighton

Rosie Sherry — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:29:37 +0000

If you are looking for a Ruby on Rails kinda job for a startup company on Brighton seafront, it may be worth checking out Homeflow, as they are looking for a developer to join their team.

Or if you are more a an online PR, marketing social media guru and fancy working in Lewes it may be worth checking out Content & Motion.

Don’t forget you can post jobs for free on the Project Brighton Job Board and also follow Digital Brighton Jobs on Twitter - this aggregates jobs from various sources.

DiMAS, BIMAS, BAFTAS…award mania!

Rosie Sherry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:21:30 +0000

I think it’s justifiable to say it’s been a busy week of awards for the digital peeps of Brighton.

The run up to The DiMAS was fun and exciting and the winners well deserved. The night and venue was so grand it reminded me how small we are! Of course being an event celebrating the digital industry everyone was talking, blogging, videoing and Flickr-ing it. I don’t think there is any need for me to add anything else to the conversation. Apart from the super cool voting system from PluginMedia, in video below:

DiMAS 2008 - Plugin Media voting from Rosie Sherry on Vimeo.

Then to up the standards just that *little* bit more, Littleloud won BIMA and BAFTA awards for their work on Bow Street Runner.

Handmade local Christmas Cards online

Rosie Sherry — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:36:22 +0000

If you are looking for lovely handmade Christmas cards made locally, but available through the convenience of ordering online, look no further than kittystitch.

Christmas cards

Brighton related LinkedIn groups

Rosie Sherry — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:39 +0000

With the ever growing Brighton digital community it is often difficult to keep up with different groups and their locations. LinkedIn can be really handy for finding professional people (or those trying to be professional).

There’s a fair few for Brighton related groups, networks and businesses and thought it would be worthwhile logging them here.

a generic group for all people in Brighton.

UX Brighton - user experience peeps

Coworkers and friends of The Werks

The Farm - freelance digital and new media

Sussex Geek Dinners

Brighton New Media

Brighton Business Network

SCIP Brighton

Brighton Chamber of Commerce

Barcamp Brighton

Brighton Girl Geeks

The Inuda Network

Are there any missing?

The DiMAS shortlists have been announced

Rosie Sherry — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:47:19 +0000

The shortlists for The DiMAS - the local awards to recognise talent and hardwork within the digital sector - have been announced. The People’s Choice award is the only one that can be voted on, all others are carefully decided by the judging panel and will be announced live on the 27th of November.

Have a look at the following shortlists and see if you can influence the Judge’s decisions!

People’s Choice

Best Use of Animation

Littleloud with Transformers for Paramount
LSM with Modern Toss animation for Channel 4
Zeroh.net with Fighterplane by The Pangs
Kerb with Experiment 23

Best Blog

Outstanding Digital Design

NCSoft with Discover Lineage II
Littleloud with Bow Street Runner
eplatforms with jeremy-hoye.com

Strongest Community

Digital Collaboration

Digital Marketing

Worth with Nigel’s Green Web Awards
Kerb with Stack da Police
Fresh Egg with Tropical Sky

User Experience

Cogapp with The British Museum
Madgex with Third Sector Jobs
DotCo with Designerpaint.co.uk

Breakthrough Business

Best in E-Learning

Brightwave - for Virgin
DB Education - for DB Primary
Purple Media - for Vodafone/RBS

Gamesindustry.biz games studio of the year

Farm Freelancer of the Year

The SCIP Award: Technology for Good

Wii Can Do It: Age Concern
Talking Bus Stops: Brighton and Hove City Council
Car Free Walks: www.carfreewalks.org.uk

Project Brighton Job Board

Rosie Sherry — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:11:26 +0000

I started Brighton digital jobs on Twitter a few months back and it has gained a nice li’l following. This basically pulls in jobs from various online spaces, such as Wired Sussex, Chinwag and other company websites that have a dedicated RSS feed for jobs. (Though I have to say this is surprisngly low for the amount of digital companies in Brighton - if you know of any do let me know!).

For a while I brought together the same feed online and whilst I wanted to do a proper job board for a while I didn’t feel it was the right time, until of course now! My main reasoning behind this is that the main source of jobs in Brighton is Wired Sussex and the BNM list. Both are great, but also have barriers (such as money or people not wanting to sign up to a mailing list - to post or read).

The purpose of the Project Brighton Job Board is to make it easier to find people to work with. I think this is especially important for Brighton and the freelance and small business community where there is a need to find people on a less formal basis.

So, say hello to the Project Brighton Job Board. It’s here to stay. It’s free.

Elgg International Conference coming to Brighton in December

Rosie Sherry — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:17:14 +0000

Elgg is an open source social networking application that has gone through a massive transformation in recent months. The good news is that not only did they recently launch a brand new and completely rewritten version of their social networking app (which is well worth a look), but they are bringing their international conference to good ole Brighton.

It’s happening on the 1st of December and you can register here.

Come Flock to the Brighton group

Rosie Sherry — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:13:37 +0000

FlockUp is a new website for Twitter users that allows groups of specific interests to be created. @stevepurkiss has created a group for Brighton. If you are within the Brighton vecinity or involved somehow do join!

The great SEO Pub Quiz

Rosie Sherry — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:51:34 +0000

The ultimate chance to prove whether or not you are a SEO and social media genius has arrived. How much do you really know about the likes of search engines, web marketing, blogging and micro-blogging?

The SEO Pub Quiz puts you face to face with local SEO and social media peeps and gives you the opportunity to be crowned King, or Queen of course. It would probably be wise to come armed with cameras and phones with the intention to capture (and publish) eventful and embarrassing moments.

When: Thursday 18th December 2008 @7pm at Brighton’s Royal Sovereign Pub

Huffduffing digital Brighton

Rosie Sherry — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:35:51 +0000

Jeremy Keith recently launched a new web app called Huffduffer that nicely brings podcasts together into your very own feed.

I think it’s really nifty. The process is similar to booking marking a site with the likes of delicious. The Huffduffer site explains it like this:

Find links to audio files on the Web.

Huffduff the links—add them to your podcast.

Subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds.

I was a bit confused when I first read this, but found that replacing the term Huffduff with ‘bookmark’ or ‘tag’ and it all became much clearer for me in Rosie Land (!). If you bookmark something in delicious you can get an RSS feed for your account or on specific chosen tags or keywords. Huffduffer is similar, but for podcasts.

The idea is that not only do you create your own podcast of potentially varying sources, but it can also be used as a way to discover new podcasts.

I put it to the test and have created a Project Brighton Huffduffer profile where I have brought together podcasts related to digital Brighton. It gets the thumbs up from me and it may even encourage me to create my own podcasts…one day!

Open feedback, suggestions or issues are very welcome from the huffduffer man.