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Welcome
to Issue One of the Newsletter for members of "The
Creative Networks"
The Creative Networks at the Technology
Innovation Centre (tic) is about
bringing all parties involved in screen-based media in
the West Midlands together. This includes the diverse
and often disparate creative companies, freelancers and
associated businesses in the region.
Creative Networks seeks to promote successful business
development and collaboration, and long term sustainability
through knowledge and use of innovative technologies and
creative practices.
Regular monthly face-to-face networking events are held
at tic. These events offer opportunities
for companies to network and make pitches, detailing the
resources they are seeking or the projects and challenges
they are planning.
Visit our online portal www.creativenetworksonline.com
for up-to-date news, funding, business support, training
and tender opportunities.
| In
This Issue: |
| 1.
COMING UP - March
Creative Networks Event @ tic
*DONT MISS OUT* |
| 2.
Event Reviewed - February's
Creative Networks Event |
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:: Summaries of 'Client Pitches'
:: Guest Speaker |
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We’d
like to hear from you!
Contact Mandeep Chana, The Creative Networks administrator
with your news and views:
:: phone
0121 331 5400
:: email
mandeep.chana@tic.ac.uk
:: or
post to Technology Innovation Centre, Millennium
Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG |
| 1.
COMING UP - March Creative
Networks Event @ tic *DONT
MISS OUT* |
Wednesday
30th March - From 6.00pm ‘til LATE at tic, Millennium
Point
The
Collaborative Networking Event for Creative Industry Professionals
The next event is scheduled for Wed 30th March 2005 starting
at 6pm at tic. There will be opportunities
for you to network and pitch your products and services,
and form partnerships and collaborations with other colleagues
from the Creative Industries Sector. Advance notice is
strongly recommended for those who wish to pitch. The
focus for this month’s event is to give you the opportunity
to gain some commissioning tactics from those that know
best.
| AGENDA |
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| 6.00
- 7.00pm |
Networking and
Hot Buffet |
| 7.00
- 7.30pm |
Client Pitching
Session |
| 7.30
- 8.00pm |
Tips on Commissioning
Tactics’ - PACT Trainer |
| 8.00pm
'til Late |
Networking at
‘The ibar’ (Millennium Point) |
If you would like to attend please
email
(mention any special dietary requirements)
Mandeep Chana mandeep.chana@tic.ac.uk
or phone
Ha Vu on 07967 706 445
Please do join us.
Great success
stories on collaboration projects have resulted from the
Creative Networks events – so get pitching. Do contact
us first if you would like to try!
We will disseminate success stories on the Creative Networks
portal at www.creativenetworksonline.com |
| 2. Event Reviewed
- February's Creative Networks Event |
Wednesday 23rd February
- From 6.00pm ‘til LATE at tic, Millennium Point
On a cold Brummie Winter’s night nearly 100 brave entrepreneurs,
business owners and representatives of SME's braved the
elements to attend tic’s the 4th Creative Networks event
at Millennium Point. Over a hot buffet attendees ‘trade
chat’ was plentiful, before everyone moved into the Lecture
Theatre. tic's Centre Manager for Interactive
Media Steve Smith opened the formal part of the evening,
pointing out that those gathered were the people really
representing screen-based media in this region, and seeking
to meet people to do business.
He told the meeting that Creative Networks meetings to
date had resulted in local companies preparing and issuing
bids for around £2m of funding!
This then led into the 'client pitching session'
an increasingly popular session that invites clients to
introduce their company and new and developing projects
within the region. |
| Summaries of the
latest Client Pitches |
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Nadine
Stavonina: Nadine Stavonina de Montagnac: Russian
by birth, British since 1990, classically trained in music
composition and journalism. This West Midlands artist,
writer and musician had encountered obstacles to her music
career (because of her age and foreign accent) and returned
to writing. She had created a winning ‘piece for a Channel
4 script-writing competition which was made into film
in 2003.
Her current project “Educational Methods through Fairytales"
(in a multicultural society) is themed around traditional
Russian Fairytales, told in a modern way relevant to British
Youth today. Nadine is seeking sponsorship and collaboration
in the process of creating the fully formed 3-D characters
for animation as well as fine art students. The project
is a thematic method of learning that's also fun and seen
as part of “cool” culture incorporating stories, games,
music and technology. It has gone through the first stage
of submission for full developmental support from NESTA/
Futurelab. Method of delivery: interactive CD Rom, Website
with live link via Broadband and computer animation.
email: NStavonina@aol.com |
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Neil
Davis: Hereford-based Neil’s 'Artnose' enterprise
is an entertainment website – TV on the internet. It covers
the arts and music, incorporating poetry and all multimedia
styles. His company aims to sell ‘hard media’ and provide
digital distribution – even to mobile phone networks.
He’s seeking funding for artistic and commercial development
of the company.
email: neildavis@artsnose.com
web: www.artsnose.com |
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Dan
Hartland: Dan was pitching for support for Sound
Factory, an enterprise by 4 composers seeking to establish
themselves commercially, providing incidental music for
Film, TV, computer games and websites. Their facility enables
the composers to build up their own portfolios, and offer
low– even no-fee - music content created by young, sometimes
unconventional, but always committed and enthusiastic composers.
email: dan@longshotmusic.co.uk
web: www.sound-factory.co.uk |
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Harry
Hemus: Harry wanted to tell people about his Dividi
Projects business, which offers DVD management and authoring.
He specialises in the elements which govern the processes
of DVD mastering. These are crucial when presenting master
DVDs for mass production and distribution.
He assembles clients’ media and arranges conversion to motion
graphics in order that their existing, even static, material
is enabled to benefit from adding imagery, information and
interactivity.
email: Harry.Hemus@dividi.co.uk
web: www.dividi.co.uk |
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Sarah
Hughes: Sarah runs Giraffe Communications Ltd,
which is a new breed of 'virtual agency' which offers big
agency experience at small agency prices. She described
what this entailed and, in particular, the PR support provided
to clients. She was looking to hear from experienced creative
companies or freelance practitioners, capable of writing
and presenting advertising copy for her clients. She is
also looking to further build upon Giraffe Communications'
existing work in the sector of leisure tourism.
email:
sarah@giraffecomms.com
web: www.giraffecomms.com |
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Karl
George M.B.E.
Karl George is a Chartered Certified Account and Director
of Andersons KBS Limited, a multi-disciplined business consultancy
firm. With an impressive track record of delivering benefits
to owner-managed businesses, he is a sought-after business
consultant and presenter.
Karl’s first book 'Most People Only Try - I Make Sure'
describes 7 simple yet highly effective steps to help guarantee
business success. It has been described as essential reading
for people thinking of starting a business and those running
a small or medium sized enterprise.
He contributes to a number of business and community initiatives;
he is a council member of Birmingham's Chamber of Commerce,
founding president of 100 Black Men of Birmingham and chair
of African Caribbean Business Forum.
Karl was Carlton Television’s Young Business Midlander 2002,
Birmingham’s Young Professional of the Year 2002 and 3Bs
Achiever of the Year 1999, and was recently awarded the
MBE.’
Karl presented his energetic and inspiring one-man performance
‘The Vital Few’. Accountant, author
and former martial arts expert, Karl delivered some valuable
nuggets in terms of business insight:
• Vision is crucial
• Practice the process of establishing a concept, communicating
it, and marshalling resources with care, and applying…
• …the 80/20 rule. This relates to the proportion of input-to-output,
causes-to-consequences, efforts-to-results, and, when “applied
to business”, culminates in the single principle of seeking
to “generate the most money with the least effort.”
email: karl.george@andersonskbs.com
web: www.andersonskbs.com
For or those who were unable to be there, Karl has kindly
allowed tic to store his presentation graphics
for further detailed study on our fully commissioned Digital
Asset Management System (DAM). To view the PowerPoint presentation
click on the following link: http://www.creativenetworksonline.com/cnnews/karl_george.ppt |
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Technology Innovation Centre (tic) 2005
Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham B4 7XG
phone +44 (0)121 331 5400 fax +44 (0)121
331 5401
www.tic-online.com
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