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National Freelancers Day takes places on Wednesday on 21st November. It is a once-a-year opportunity to highlight the massive contribution of flexible workers to the UK economy, so we’re using the day to celebrate the freelancers in our coworking space at Old Broadcasting House. As part of the celebrations, clients in the coworking space are inviting friends, colleagues and fellow freelancers to make use of the building’s facilities free of charge for the day from 9am on Wednesday...
15/11/12 -
QU2 Business Accelerator Training here at Old Broadcasting House - Every Thursday commencing 27th September Accelerate your business growth with workshops designed to coach you through from start to maturity. This training has proved to double the sustainability of early stage businesses. To book on to a session, visit http://qu2leeds.eventbrite.com/ Our series of 2 hour workshops include: BUSINESS BASICS– 27th Sept 2012, 9am to 11:30am • Evaluating business ideas and skills assessment • Market...
28/09/12 -
Runs quarterly events for budding entrepreneurs Events are free of charge and include refreshments, a business showcase and an inspirational speaker. The next event takes place ion 15th November To reserve your place and for more information please click here: www.leedsenterprisenetwork.com
25/09/12 -
On Saturday 30th June nti Leeds hosted Digital Health Hack at Old Broadcasting House - an event which followed on from the Digital Health Conference that brought together health service practitioners, users and developers to 'hack' solutions to health and social care problems. Old Broadcasting House is a great space for these creative events and participants included coworkers, GPs, social workers, developers Leeds Met Computing graduates and Occupational Therapy students and staff including Lin...
23/07/12 -
Old Broadcasting House hosted July's Leeds Girl Geeks with guest speaker Dr Sue Black. The event had been re-scheduled from April, so there was a great deal of eager anticipation. Dr Black gave an inspirational talk about her life, starting with an explanation of when she first became a geek - answer age 8! She studied for her Computing degree PhD, founding BCS Women along the way. Her involvement in helping to save Bletchley Park is a great example of what you can achieve when you care passiona...
23/07/12 -
Meet James Blumink, who has recently started coworking at Old Broadcasting House. James is the founder of start up business PubMe - a social mobile application rewarding users with free drinks and discounts for pub and brand loyalty . We asked James to tell us a bit more about how it works. James : 'Pubme allows you to search friends in pubs, check in ( or Tap-In as we phrase it ) at the pub , collect loyalty reward points and redeem for free drinks and discounts. Then you can rate your pub exp...
02/07/12 -
Ken Onyia has just graduated from Leeds Met's Computing Course and he's taking his project idea forward as a coworker at Old Broadcasting House. Over a coffee we put some questions to Ken to find out about what he's working on. Ken: Currently, I am working on a context-aware web-based application that functions as an interactive online music player, called SwiftSounds. The system is designed for use in public places equipped with television screens, such as pubs and waiting rooms. Users contro...
01/07/12 -
Coworker Richard Garside has recently published his Font Picker app to the Mac App store. Font picker is a simple tool that lets you browse through the fonts installed on your Mac computer and narrow down your selection to choose the one that's right for your project. Richard demo'd his app at the March LSx Café - a monthly meetup for those working and playing in the tech, media, startup, creative & digital arena, attracting designers, developers, entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, techn...
10/05/12 -
We'd like to introduce Neil Holroyd, who has recently joined the coworking space. Neil specialises in branding, print and digital design with particular expertise in the Education Sector, where his clients include the Royal Academy of Dance, Lakes College and the University of Glamorgan. Neil has recently completed the re-branding of the International School Moshi in Tanzania and is currently working on their website. Neil wanted to expand his business and develop a more diverse client portfol...
01/05/12 -
One of our first coworkers, James Ward has made the transition from freelancer to international entrepreneur, founding Pianola - the new web-based toolkit for bridge club managers and players - which launched as a paid-for product at the start of 2012. "I started coworking when I was freelancing as a digitial coach," said James. "Being based there really opened my eyes to the possibilities of what I could do with my ideas, by calling on the expertise and knowledge of fellow coworkers. I've bee...
01/03/12
