You’ve heard the talkies, seen the showies and enjoyed the drinkies, now is your chance to join the debatey! We are all set for Thursday 31st May at the NUCA Duke Street lecture theatre at 5pm, gum-shields in, we are testing out a new format – the debatey. What constitutes spam on social media and are there unwritten rules that people and companies should follow? Our LinkedIn discussion about this revealed some pretty polar opinions, so we thought we could give everyone a chance to share their thoughts. The incomparable Tony Wood will steer the discussion with views from a panel including Paul Hill from Archant, Chris Delahunty from MMK, Chris Wheeler from Metalfrog Studios and Maxine Green from RAC. A great opportunity to find out where you sit on this issue…and have a bit of a rant.

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Fab Lab? Makerspace? Hackspace? There’s been a lot of interest on our LinkedIn board about this topic, but what’s all the fuss about? Rob Halden-Pratt of Tribe TV will explain what goes on in these spaces in cities like Cambridge, Manchester and San Francisco. He’ll also make the case for why we need one here, and what we can all do to make it happen.

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Information is beautiful. This idea is brilliantly brought to life by ‘You Are Here’, the Lance Wyman exhibition at NUCA’s St George’s Street gallery which includes work from Mexico ‘68 Olympics and the brilliant wayfinding work for Washington National Zoo. and We’ve asked the curator of the show Finola Gaynor to talk to us Lance’s work and how and why she put the exhibition together.

Last Thursday’s Hot Source talkie was a minor classic. Ali Clabburn and Liftshare are well known to many people across our community, but hearing more of Ali’s story – which dates back to the earliest days of dotcom – was a real eye-opener. If you missed it, make 10 minutes in your day when we put the videos up.   Continue reading ‘Intellectual, properly’

The Near Field Norwich event reached its finale on Thursday last week. The event gave teams a month to use an NFC campaign management platform developed by Proxama. It was the first event of its kind in the UK, so we were one of the first creative communities the world to look at the potential of this new technology.

Eleven teams made it to the finish line, and Hot Source salutes each and every one of them. Continue reading ‘Noodling with NFC’

Another fried slice of Hot Source Talkie goodness coming your way. The venue is the NUCA Duke Street lecture theatre on Thursday 29th March. Kick off is at 5pm.

Ali Clabburn of liftshare will talk about the challenges of setting up an online social business. Ali is the founder and Managing Director of liftshare.com, the UK’s leading provider of car-sharing and sustainable transport solutions. Come and hear the story of liftshare from a noticeboard in university halls, to a nationwide business with over 323,000 members and approximately 600 corporate clients.

Jonathan Perlmutter of ip21 will talk us through some of the principles of intellectual property and how to protect it. Any creative community should know the basics of doing this, so we think this talk subject is long overdue.

Plus! Showies from some of the entrants in the Near Field Norwich NFC accelerator event which will have had its finale event the week before.

And! An announcement about another flipping awesome competition that you can enter.

Ooh Mister Ambassador, with this Talkie line-up you are really spoiling us…

Near Field Norwich brings together digital meet-up group Hot Source with local NFC specialist Proxama in the region’s first NFC accelerator event. Continue reading ‘NFC accelerator event showcases Norwich digital talent’

Got your team together? Ideas brewing? Then you’ll need to come along for the tech briefing this Thursday, 23rd Feb, 4-6pm. At Open, click here to find it. The idea is for all the teams to come together to say ‘Hi’ and get an initial briefing on Proxama’s Touchpoint platform. This will give you everything you need to know to start coming up with ideas. It would help if you could please register for the event before you come to help us out with numbers, click here.
Usual Hot Source drinks afterwards at Rumsey Wells, 6pm ish.

Hot Source hero Neil Garner of Proxama has brought an MD into his business, next Tuesday at Norfolk Network he’ll tell us how and why and said MD will share with us his extraordinary 30,000 mile sailing and mountaineering adventure from Brighton to Antarctica and finally to Norwich! Click here for more info and a 25% discount on tickets for Hot Sourcers.

It’s on. Registration for our Near Field Norwich event is open from now until 22nd Feb.

It is the UK’s first ever event which allows digital and creative people to play with Near Field Communications tech and find inventive and creative uses for it out in the real world. This one will attract a lot of national and international attention, so get involved and help show the world what we can do.

If you’ve got a team together, or want to find some people to form a team with, step this way. If you want to know more about the event (and why it’s the coolest thing happening hereabouts this year) then take a look at this.

http://www.proxama.com/