Xover Networking Day, originally uploaded by FrankBoyd.
Topics of the day where business models for new media content, development of new media content for kids, IP and legal structures for new media collaboration, funding, commissions and the issues around cross-media delivery.
I had great chats afterwards with Dan Hon, Sixtostart and Richard Land, Illumina. Questions where raised about how to get paid for producing content. I think an important insight is to look at what services you could deliver e.g creation of attractive meeting points that meet a market need rather than just produce content.
On the train back to London we were a bunch of geeks including David Bovill, Dave Sag, Cathy Skinner, Dorigen and Mark Atkin that talked so intensively that we where degraded from first class to second class.
Thursday last week I went to Pizzaonrails, a meeting point for people interested in Ruby on Rails and web applications. I was there to make more connections with developers for a few projects that I am working on at the moment, including a Social Network.
At pizzaonrails you´ll find the best programmers and web developers in London, and you can have a chat with people from Bebo, Co-minded, Net Auctions etc.
I got a few more contacts for my projects now, but was unfortunately a little bit too late for the presentations and the pizza!
Thanks to steph winfield for the photo from flickr.
The first thing I saw when I came to London was busy city people in pinstripe suits and tall glass buildings.
Like many others I am here for a purpose, projects that needs to be done so where to start?
I started to research the web of who to meet and where to find them.
A perfect way of finding real people is by attending network events.
Here are some good events where you can find real people, make good connections and gather useful information.
Creative Alchemy
Claudie Plen hosts a friendly social event for people in the creative industry.
Own It
Learn about IP-(Intellectual Property) rights. How to protect your ideas. Ask questions and mingle with other creative people.
ICA The Club
Host speakers - Meet up and share ideas with creative people in design, trends photo, digital, and music.
NMK – New Media Knowledge
If you want to learn more about the new media industry and discuss ideas with digital agencies and people in the digital arena.
Like Mind
An informal breakfast with friendly creative people.
Coffee Morning
An informal breakfast with friendly advertising people (a lot of planners, but they are friendly too).
Mini Camp
All the innovators and geeks in the new media industry drink beer and talk about future projects and collaborations.
Meet up.com
A service where you can start our own networking group.
There are plenty of interesting groups to join.
Creative London
The Strategy Agency for London´s Creative Industry.
They have links to different events.
CIDA – Cultural Industries Development Agency
They organize events to inspires and give support to the creative and cultural sector.
Nesta
London´s Innovation support. They are hosting events in innovation.
