Tag Archives: hulldigital

January Hull Digital Meet Up

It’s long been my intention to launch and importanty maintain, a monthy meet up for anyone in Hull interested in web technologies, web designers and developers, entrepeneurs, VCs and online evangelists. The Hull Digital community is, I am sure, both great in number, and the desire to get together, grab a coffee and chat! At [...]

Karoo Win Two Awards Shock

Karoo are Hull’s one and only broadband provider, and, the truth be known, one of the region’s biggest problems. With no choice, and essentially a monopoly, the people of Hull, normal familes and web gurus, are stuck with this ISP, leadng to a vocal volume of dissent. Their 8mb service is far from 8mb, although [...]

Community Management

The online community is an active one, and so it makes a whole lot of sense to have someone within your company to monitor what is being said online. I’ve been following Jeremiah Owyang for a long time now – he is one of the biggest fans of Community Management and the actual position of [...]

Business

Windows 8 – Metro vs Desktop

by simonhudson

Recently I was sent this YouTube video about an old bloke thrown in to using the new Windows 8. My reaction to this type of ‘journalism’ is fairly scathing. My measured response is that the example in the video is neither a fair test since the unsuspecting suspect was given no guidance at all on [...]

There has never been a better time to start a digital business

by pdyson

Ask pretty much any politician what the key to getting ourselves out of the current economic mess is and they’ll say “business growth”. Ask them where that growth is going to come from and they’ll say “Small- and Medium-sized businesses”. If I’m feeling generous I’d say that the credit crunch and the global recession have [...]

Hull & The Knowledge Economy

by John Connolly

I’m passionate about Hull and its future. I was born here, educated here, returned after University, and have been running businesses in the city for the last eleven years or so. Hull’s been in a tough economic situation for many years now. The reasons behind this and the associated social impact are complex. What’s clear [...]

Hull Digital

Kingston Upon Hull's Digital Community