A monthly meet up where digital creatives from in and around Manchester can get away from their screens and talk to other digital creatives over a pint.

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Thursday, May 28th, 2009 

btween

The prizes for our next meetup on Thursday 4th June at The Northern just keep coming.

I can’t believe it’s been 12 months since I embarrassed myself doing a Pecha Kucha style talk at las years b.TWEEN conference, but it is, and it’s here again.

b.TWEEN is a great 2 day networking event with great talks by industry leaders. It really was worth while for me last year, making some good contacts including Northern Digitals member Warren Slingsby of Make in Huddersfield.

This year it is at FACT in Liverpool on 11-12 June and you have the chance to win a 2 day pass by coming along to our next meetup on Thursday 4th June at The Northern. We’ll let you know how you can get your hands on this prize closer to the time but one things we can say is that you will have to be a Northern Digital member, RSVP’d YES, and be there on the night. In the meantime here’s what the event organisers say about the event:

b.TWEEN is the UK’s only cross sector marketplace. Big players with their eyes on the future (C4, BBC, Orange, Ogilvy, HP etc) meet the very best digital start-ups and creative entrepreneurs.

For two days in June, delegates will have the chance to meet some of the most influential individuals from across the media industries – from advertising, branding, broadcast, social media, tech, mobile, gaming and Web.

b.TWEEN is webcast live to thousands at www.btween.co.uk

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 

Flash On The Beach

You may have heard through our twitter that we have a great prize to give away at our next meetup.

Well…

that prize is…

wait for it…

a free ticket to this years Flash On The Beach - www.flashonthebeach.com, which has kindly been donated by the organisers.

For those who don’t know, Flash On The Beach or FOTB is a 3 day creative/flash/film conference in Brighton from 20th – 23rd Sept.

For those who do know, will know how good this prize is.

You simply don’t get the calibre of speaker at an event like this in the UK, with speakers such as Joshua Davis, Hillman Curtis, Rob Chiu, Carlos Ulloa, Keith Peters, to name a fraction of the talent speaking.

I went to the 2007 event and was blown away with what I saw. WARNING! You may decide to give up the day job when you see the work, ideas and general crazy sh*t on show.

Other Northern Digitals members who have been included Stuart Hamilton and Adam Palmer. If you don’t want to take my word for how good FOTB is, give them a shout at the meetup.

So yes, there will only be one lucky winner at the next meetup. We haven’t yet decided how we are going to give this away but you will have to be there on the night. Keep an eye on this site and twitter for more information before the meetup.

If you aren’t the lucky winner and have a healthy interest in anything creative and digital, you must not miss this event.

At writing this there were 102 Double Early Bird tickets left at £239.

See you all there on Thu 4th June at The Northern, Tibb Street, Manchester.