SID is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. Click here to learn more about being safe online.

Be safe  and responsible online!

The app gives scheduled and real-time (where available) departure times for Bus, Train and Metro in Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley and Solihull, finding the nearest stop using your current location or allowing you to enter one. It allows you to keep a list of your favourite stops and stations, receive the latest traffic and journey news and other useful information including tickets and bus operators details in the West Midlands. The app is integrated with Google maps and is location aware.

If you don’t have an iPhone or Android smartphone, you can use their netwm.mobi link to get the same info or go on-line

http://netwmtravelmap.com/

Enjoy!

The event aims to discuss the smart city agenda and key developments in Brum with interactive participation from the audience. Click here to view agenda.

Follow us on Twitter via #SmartBrum

We’ll also be streaming live (with special thanks to @civicolive), watch this space for the link up details!

The bootcamps are aimed at:

1) small businesses, freelancers, managers or those in marketing

2) entrepreneurs who has a website

3) anyone who is thinking about launching a website

and will teach you how to:

1) Get ranked on search engines

2) Leverage social media effectively

3) Start selling in key web marketplaces

4) Get the right ecommerce site affordably

These bootcamps have been put on courtesy of the Department of Business Innovation and Skills,  School for Startups, Yell (and others) to help small businesses in the UK and will be held nationally – the Birmingham event will be held on Thursday 19 January 2012.

Please click here for more information and to register.

The New York Times noted the city’s array of culinary treats, promoted by the ten-day Birmingham Food Fest which took place in 2011.

Click here to read the full article http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/64228-brum-makes-top-20-must-visit-destinations

“I was wondering if Birmingham City Council has a comprehensive list of the city centre postcodes so I could easily upload this to the admin area of my website, so when the customer places an order this will be accepted/rejected depending on the postcode.”

Bingo!

Now, I’ve seen that on the Right Move website you can draw a polygon around the area that you are interested in and the site will search for properties in this area. I wondered if anybody had used CodePoint data to create a mapping tool where you could draw a polygon and have a list of all the Postcodes it covers created for you.

I thought that this would solve the problem that we had been asked to help with, but also that it would be a really useful general service.

I asked on Twitter if this had already been done. Disappointingly, people said not. However, quite a number of people thought it was a good idea. Some people even said it was something that they might do.

Stuart Harrison, from Lichfield has said he might develop something and put it on his UK Postcodes site. Sym Roe from @1010 said that he had been thinking about developing something like this. And Ian Holt, from Ordnance Survey has also offered his help; thanks to John Goodwin for forwarding the request on.

So, despite having done nothing much except potentially get other people to do some work, I feel it’s been a productive morning. If and when the idea becomes a service, I’ll be sure to post something here.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

Again it’s been a busy three months with the submission of funding bids and we are pleased to confirm that we have secured and will be leading on the EU DISCOVER project which is about developing/enhancing the digital skills of formal and informal carers. Visit our project page for more info. http://www.digitalbirmingham.co.uk/projects/digital-skills-for-carers

Yesterday, Ofcom proposed 20 sites for consultation for the local television multiplex licence. They were selected to achieve a range of locations across the UK, and a range of scales of operation. Evidence of strong local demand was also taken into account.

The 20 sites are: Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Southampton and Swansea.

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