The personal computer promises everything faster, better, cheaper. You can even conduct your social life online. But does this shift risk damaging our local economies and communities? What happens when you turn your back on the computer and use technology to build communities in real life instead?

- look at technology’s ability to bring concrete benefits to tangible communities
- examine the digital divide created by new technologies
- explore new business models with one foot in technology and the other in the real world

It’s David and Goliath time! New technologies mean small players can now make a marketing impact traditionally reserved for big-budget big-business. What do these unprecedented developments mean for you?

- learn new marketing skills and update existing ones
- look at real world marketing examples
- explore current trends in online marketing technology
- check out future technological developments

Hands-on Workshops:
- Go Mobile: Chris Mills, Developer Relationship Manager, Opera Software

Recent dramatic developments in online technologies have brought us together for social, business and educational purposes. Think Facebook, Flickr, De.li.cio.us, Wikipedia, WordPress and Blogger. Think again on Open Source, Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science. But is this just part of a wider change in society?

- receive practical advice for your business and social networks
- get clued-in to the critical debate on business benefits and privacy issues
- experience real world networking with practitioners, businesses and students

Hands-on Workshops: