Manchester Digital MD takes the stage at skills festival
The annual four-day event helps tackle the digital skills gap by introducing those that want to work in digital to education providers and digital and tech businesses from across the region. Click on the BusinessCloud tweet below for details of the digital skills audit.
#MDSkillsFest has officially started- welcome from @katiegallagher @McrDig pic.twitter.com/78M5GcTVOU
— Emma Grant (@EmmaMcrDig) February 13, 2018
Heading to #MDSkillsFest with my journalist hat on today.
Say hi!
If you have trouble finding me, it’s just a metaphorical hat. I’ll be the guy with no hat on.
— Al Hardaker (@listairhardaker) February 13, 2018
We’re hearing the latest industry statistics announced from the 2018 Skills Audit by @McrDig at #MDSkillsFest pic.twitter.com/A4b4xXYYN4
— BusinessCloud.co.uk (@BCloudUK) February 13, 2018
Bitcoin Ben hails the new season
Ben Semchee aka ‘Bitcoin Ben’ shares an important tip for investing in his daily video. The self-taught bitcoin expert and trucker recently spoke at BusinessCloud’s packed cryptocurrency event.
Bitcoin Ben | The crypto season has started!: https://t.co/26Es37TKpt via @YouTube
— Bitcoin Ben [LTC] (@bensemchee) February 12, 2018
Northcoders welcomes a new addition to the team
The coding bootcamp for the north has hired Manchester legend Sandy Lindsay as a non-executive director. Lindsay is the founder of Tangerine Comms, amongst many, many other things.
We couldn’t be more excited to welcome @SandyLindsay to Northcoders!
“There’s never been a more important time to help fill that #DigitalSkills gap”
Let’s do it.#MDSkillsFest https://t.co/zsTW16UnIk— Northcoders (@northcoders) February 13, 2018
Founder of @TangerineComms @SandyLindsay MBE joins @northcoders https://t.co/OAlqu2tPID pic.twitter.com/u38pnj15TI
— BusinessCloud.co.uk (@BCloudUK) February 13, 2018
Katherine Goldstein gets nostalgic
The digital journalist and Nieman Fellow shows that print isn’t dead yet.
Sometimes I get tired of constant digital news & how it’s so hard to keep up with great stories and then I think, wouldn’t it be great to have a weekly or monthly service that just packaged and mailed the best stuff for me to read leisurely and analog and then I think, oh wait
— Katherine Goldstein (@KGeee) February 13, 2018
Tech businesses hit by Brexit
Tech and media consultant and former Tech North community editor Martin Bryant shares the results of Manchester Digital’s annual digital skills audit.
45% of North West tech businesses have already been negatively impacted by Brexit, according to @McrDig data. https://t.co/jIxYTIB56R
— Martin Bryant (@MartinSFP) February 13, 2018