Hear Ye, etc:

• Digital Mission Regional Tour, Birmingham, 30 June 2009 – “A series of regional workshops are happening around the UK to talk about the Digital Mission series to the USA taking place in Autumn 2009 and Spring 2010″
• Clevercherry and Descent Gear – Clevercherry are “happy to share with you the new site for Descent Gear”
• Smartsearch – Clevercherry have launched a standalone site for their SEO services
• Redprint by Substrakt – Substrakt have released Redprint – “a blank but incredibly fast WordPress template for building great sites”
• Big Button & Kelly Brook – More work rolls off the Big Button production line – Kelly Brook, Special People and Smilescool being the clients
• Digital Press Awards announce winners – “The winners of the two brand new digital press awards were announced last night at the Midlands Media Awards dinner, organised by the Press Club” Congratulations to Rhubarb Radio and the Black Country Facebook group
• Digbeth, Aston Science Park and Eastside to lead digital Birmingham – “The initiative, part of the council’s Big City Plan, revolves around plans to install fibre optic technology which would enable internet speeds of over 100 megabits per second in the area” With a long comment by Fazeley Studios owner, Lucan Grey
• Digbeth formally called Birmingham’s Digital District – Nicky Getgood collects a few links about this. So is this a branding exercise? If you’re in Digbeth already is this a good thing? If you’re not in Digbeth would this tempt you to move over?
• Digital Brum – “Social webbery type events in the City of Birmingham, UK”. Well worth checking this out
• [Event] Birmingham Social Media Cafe, 26 June – The next meet-up is on 10am to midday, Friday 26 June downstairs at the Coffee Lounge. Open to anyone who uses/is interested in social media, with drinks sponsored by Hello Digital
• [Event] Moseley Barcamp, 28 June, Moseley, Birmingham – “The main event brings a range of folk with something to say about social media or the internetz to the floor to talk, with attendees very much a part of the action” The talks have just been announced
• [Event] EuroPython: a Python Conference, 28 June – 4 July, Birmingham – “EuroPython is a conference all about the Python programming language”
• [Event] Media Evening 25 June, The Vaults – Clusta are hosting the next Media Evening at The Vaults