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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Matt Chick presents Colchester Digital - Plans for 2025
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Matt Chick
Web Developer
Chick Digital
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Thursday, October 8, 2020
In this talk Rob looks at compelling reasons for using and contributing to Open Source, as well as making this work in a professional setting.
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Rob Moffat
Symphony consultant
Deutsche Bank
An introduction to, and demonstration of, Git and GitHub
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Max Shelley
Ruby on Rails Developer
Measured Brilliance
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Thursday, August 13, 2020
Hear from Senior Researchers at ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Centre, on improving your data strategy and overcoming data shortages
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Husam Quteineh
Senior Research Officer
Business and Local Government Data Research Centre -
Dr Kakia Chatsiou
Senior Research Officer
Business and Local Government Data Research Centre
A demonstration of Sentiment analysis using an Azure Logic App and Azure Cognitive Services
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James Brand
Software and Industrial IoT
Innovative Creations
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Thursday, July 9, 2020
Jamie will be explaining how to manage efficient workflow and creating striking content quickly and easily using Adobe Creative Cloud applications
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Jamie Weston
Education Co-ordinator
Signals
Tim will be looking at various types of splash screen to catch the eye and demonstrate how to create them with a live shoot and software edit.
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Tim Wilson
Adobe Certified Instructor
Red Rocket Studio
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Thursday, June 11, 2020
Learn how your business can leverage sentiment analysis to create content that really connects with your audience, their questions, concerns and more
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Ben Johnston
SEO and Data Analytics Director
ESV Digital
91% of content gets no organic traffic from Google, how can we get more from our content marketing efforts with strategic content creation?
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Oliver Hearsum
Search Strategist
StrategiQ
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
Heydon worked closely with the BBC's accessibility team to write guidance for turning a host of patterns (GEL design system) into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
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Heydon Pickering
Technical Writer
Freelance
Every developer has their business idea that they want to built. In this talk I want to focus on what you'll need to do to achieve your goals!
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Ashleigh Simonelli
Developer
Velocity Black
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Thursday, April 9, 2020
Words. Images. Video. Colour. Tone. Targeting. Whether you brief, write, design, build or publish, we all play a part in how messages are conveyed.
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Kim Moore
Marketing Strategist
KG Moore
When it comes to sharing technical content, clarity and context is key. How do you make sure you are sharing the right message at the right time?
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Tom Broome
Creative Director
Creative Quills
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Thursday, March 12, 2020
Why having a sales process makes sense, how it benefits sales people, their leaders and what the key steps in the sales process are.
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Gert Scholts
Sales coach
The Best Sales Coach
Are you a small business? Just starting out and finding that things are expensive and complicated?
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Mathew Parkins
Marketing and Business Strategist
Freelance
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
A guide to tracking AMP content and Progressive Web Apps in Google Analytics, covering what the two technologies are and how they differ.
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Ben Johnston
SEO and Data Analytics Director
ESV Digital
Unfortunately, there is no simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to this. However, there are a few ways you can find out whether Bing ads would be profitable for you
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Max Johnson
Digital Marketing Executive
Coast Digital
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Thursday, November 14, 2019
How implementing Schema Markup on your website can enhance and provide more real estate for your listings in the search engine results.
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Liam 'Lewy' Shepherd
Digital Marketing Specialist
Freelance
SEO isn't about trying to 'game' the algorithms. Instead, we need to understand user intent. Oli will discuss this and what really makes great content.
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Oliver Hearsum
Search Strategist
StrategiQ
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
This is all about encouraging meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem — for beginners and veterans alike.
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Luke Oliff
Developer Advocate
Nexmo
Introduction to and demonstration of GitHub
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Ashleigh Simonelli
Developer
Velocity Black
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Thursday, September 12, 2019
How to use Adobe Lightroom to make a simple catalogue of your digital images, to help you find specific images quickly.
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Jayne Lloyd
Photographer
Jayne Lloyd Photography
Applications that support Adobe Camera Raw include Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, After Effects, and Bridge.
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Ally Wilson
Instructor
Red Rocket Studio
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
Introduction to low cost IoT hardware, sensors, actuators; edge computing / AI; use in Smart City solutions;
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Andy
Organiser
Southend Tech
How to build a solution with a Raspberry pi, azure and powerbi so we can build an entire IoT solution in 10 lines of code or less and Azure Sphere demo
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James Brand
Software and Industrial IoT
Innovative Creations
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
When it comes to marketing, many tech companies fear leaving out the complexity of their offering.
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Stephanie Humphries
Strategic Director
Creative Quills
When we're asked to deliver digital solutions we often fail to consider the one of the key user groups - the System Administrators and Content Editiors.
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Matt Chick
Web Developer
Chick Digital
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Friday, May 10, 2019
A warm welcome to all attendees of Colchester Digital's first one day conference from one of the founding members of the group and what to expect today
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Karen Ainley
Digital Marketing
Mosaic
Kerry shares her experiences of convincing organisations she's worked at to put content strategy at the heart of their web projects.
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Kerry Cole
Marketing Strategist
Green Emerald Marketing
Creative Director Frazer Merrick explains how Teaboy Games went from university graduates to featured app store developers in little over 6 months
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Frazer Merrick
Composer & Sound Designer
Teaboy Games
We'll look at how biometric technology can take UX testing to the next level by incorporating eye tracking, facial recognition and skin response.
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Michael Dravnieks
UX Consultant
Coast Digital
Design Systems are so hot right now, Stu discusses the parts that make up one and offers advice to help you start or maintain your current system.
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Stu Robson
Web Developer
Always Twisted
Hosting at scale for pennies using Hugo and Amazon S3 with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment as an example process
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Ric Harvey
AWS Evangelist
Amazon
Luke is going to attempt to share his experience (read: paranoia) for software security and how he makes sure commits in his name were definitely him
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Luke Oliff
Developer Advocate
Nexmo
Exploring the most modern protocols for communicating between applications and services such as JSON-RPC, pub/sub, gRPC and comparing them to much more
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Ashleigh Simonelli
Developer
Velocity Black
Rachel explores some of the things coming to CSS Layout, including the much requested subgrid feature, plus how to get how to get involved with CSS.
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Rachel Andrew
Web Developer
Perch
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Thursday, May 9, 2019
Ben Green from This is Fever will be giving a short talk on the launch of the Creative Colchester Website.
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Alison Fogg
Chair of Creative Colchester Project Group
Creative Colchester
EIRA stands for Enabling Innovation: Research to Application
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Emma Wakeling
Knowledge Exchange Manager
Essex University
The LFFN programme is looking for opportunities to help local bodies explore the potential to increase commercial deployment of fibre
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Steven Eke
Risk and project management
Colchester Amphora Trading
Business Support Programme for SECCADS
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Vanessa von Heydebreck
Visual Artist and Creative Programme Manager (SECCADS)
SPACE
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Thursday, April 11, 2019
Some top tips for getting funding for your Tech Startup
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Keith Grinsted
Consultant
The Olderpreneur
A winning Social Media Marketing Strategy for Start-Ups
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Naomi Mc Laughlan
Business and Multimedia Marketing Consultant and Coach
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Thursday, March 14, 2019
Open Banking is improving our relationship with our financial data; an explosion of innovative FinTech start-ups have disrupted the consumer finance sector
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Charlie Jennings
Software Engineer
Chip Financial
Responsible Animations aims to create a mindset to help improve how you conceptualise, design and develop animations for your projects
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Mike Masey
Developer
Yoyo Design
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
The interconnectivity of things (an environmentalists view).
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Ric Harvey
AWS Evangelist
Amazon
We welcome local Colchester organisation Replastic who will demonstrate that circular waste economies are part of a solution to local plastic problem.
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Katie Francis
Owner
Replastic
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Wednesday, November 7, 2018
A comparison between PHP's Symfony, expressjs and nestjs and a showcase of SOLID principles and why they will make your life better as a developer.
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Ashleigh Simonelli
Developer
Velocity Black
How quickly can you secure all requests to your ExpressJS application with middleware? Luke gives us a practical demonstration of how to it.
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Luke Oliff
Developer Advocate
Nexmo
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Thursday, October 11, 2018
This month we focus on Adobe and designing for both print and web
Ally will take you through building a basic InDesign document, showing you how graphical shapes can bring a page to life.
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Ally Wilson
Instructor
Red Rocket Studio
Jamil demonstrates the difference between the old methods of designing a web page PhotoShop to the new by transitioning an existing project from to XD.
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Jamil Shehadeh
Head of Design
Coast Digital
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
A longer single talk today about Software Licensing followed by a summary of our plans for the group for the rest of this year and next
Have you looked into the licencing agreement of software you are currently using that you have purchased… or are using for free.
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Steve Cropper
Head of Code Community Relations
Wix
Colchester Digital Planning Autumn 2018.
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Dean Leigh
Web Designer
Wholething
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Thursday, July 12, 2018
This week will be a social and networking catch-up as we take a break for the summer.
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Thursday, June 14, 2018
Data, how we use it to make predictions and how we protect it when it’s about us.
This will be a not-too-technical talk about the different kinds of machine learning algorithms, what they do, when to use them, the pros and cons of each.
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Darren Cook
Developer
QQ Trend
Information related to millions of peoples identities has been intentionally or unintentionally released leaving individuals vulnerable.
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Luke Oliff
Developer Advocate
Nexmo
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
This month we focus on Social Media Marketing with two speakers who have more than 60 years industry experience between them.
Keith has over 17,500 connections on LinkedIn and runs the Charity UK group with 40,000 members he provides tips on how to get LinkedIn working for you.
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Keith Grinsted
Consultant
The Olderpreneur
Karen will reflect on the changes that have taken place during her 30-year career.
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Karen Ainley
Digital Marketing
Mosaic
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Thursday, March 8, 2018
When we talk about Digital Strategy it may have different meaning depending where you are in the industry, today we try and clarify what it means to most.
We live in an age where a single tweet can wipe a £1bn of the value of a company. How can companies large and small thrive in this dynamic environment.
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Matt Chick
Web Developer
Chick Digital
Following Matt Chicks talk "Digital Strategy - Beyond the Buzzwords" we have a discussion about Digital Strategy and what it means in parts of the industry
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Dean Leigh
Web Designer
Wholething
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Thursday, February 15, 2018
For this months Colchester Digital Code Event we are taking the opportunity to attend The Hub Crawl 2018 at The Games Hub.
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
We currently live in a golden age of software, there is seemingly a website or application for everything, our lives have been transformed by the internet.
This will be a dive into the web technologies that make this golden age possible, with a healthy dose of practical examples thrown in, which will attempt to demystify some of the internet buzzwords floating around our connected lives.
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Michael Letley
Developer
Ansta Ltd
How to work effectively with a development team using SCRUM.
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Charlie Jennings
Software Engineer
Chip Financial
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Thursday, January 18, 2018
The Colchester Digital spin off night for those who wish to code.
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Thursday, January 11, 2018
We are going to kick off the new year with a theme that is often taken for granted and that is "Content".
Kerry shares her experiences of convincing organisations she's worked at to put content strategy at the heart of their web projects.
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Kerry Cole
Marketing Strategist
Green Emerald Marketing
Doug explains how creating copy and design hand-in-hand often leads to the best results for a website.
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Doug Smith
Copywriter
Look Here Copywriting
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Thursday, December 14, 2017
As many of our members are self-employeed we thought it would be great to have a Christmas social.
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
The Colchester Digital spin off night for those who wish to code.
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Thursday, November 9, 2017
A good digital experience can save someone time and money, a bad one can ruin their day. But good design doesn't happen by accident - it's the result of research, data, psychology, prototyping, testing and a willingness to learn more about the world around you every day.
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Michael Dravnieks
UX Consultant
Coast Digital
AWS Lambda and the serverless framework with a practical example to demonstrate the ease at which you can write and deploy applications that scale.
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Ric Harvey
AWS Evangelist
Amazon
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