Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg will both be playing their part at tomorrows National Digital Inclusion Conference and Switch New Media, a Belfast based company, are set to live video stream the conference to over five thousand delegates online.

Now in its fifth year, the NDI10 Conference aims to get cross-sector and cross-party digital inclusion partners together to discuss digital inclusion issues, and plan actions for 2010 and beyond. The conference will bring together key digital inclusion players, policy makers and practitioners.

This slides and recording from our recent Business Transformation webinar are now available online. Topics discussed in the presentation included Tech Trends, Ireland's Smart Economy, Social Media, Cloud Computing and Outsourcing.

Anecdotally, bloggers and business owners have long pointed to more enquiries, improved visibility and growing reputation as signs that blogging was good for their businesses.

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Less than a month ago Google launched its social networking and messaging tool Google Buzz to a largely lukewarm reception.

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After a lot of hard work from our design and programming team, the new Media Lightbox blog is now live! We tasked our designers to come up with a modern, clean blog design to transform our blog into something a bit more web 2.0.

A shiver ran round the corporate offices of technology, media and investment companies last summer.

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There are loads of articles online about why blogs are great for businesses and communication with customers. And that’s true. But businesses certainly aren’t the only ones who can benefit from having a great blog.

Social networking — Twitter, Facebook and so on — is one way for a business to get to know customers. It is cheap, simple and direct and its a good way to have a conversation.

Good communication hinges on one point. The speaker must understand how the message is being heard to be sure a clear channel has been established.

Google is preparing to unveil a widget for Gmail that will allow people quick access to updates on Twitter and Facebook ..

Barclay Communications launches a new website competition to help Northern Ireland businesses get online.

Belfast business communications specialists, Barclay Communications are giving Northern Ireland businesses the chance to win a website worth £2500 in their new competition, which was launched on Monday.

The winner’s website will be designed and developed by Barclay Communications’ ebusiness team, who have created sites for the likes of Ten Square, Oaklee Housing Association and The Belfast Operatic Company.

Invest Northern Ireland today launched its new Market Visits programme for 2010-11 which features over 70 trade missions and exhibitions to help local companies develop global export opportunities.

More than 15 events will target the important Middle East region including markets such as the Saudi Arabian centres of Riyadh, Jeddah and Al Khobar, as well as the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Oman. A new addition to the region is Iraq where local companies will have an opportunity to explore opportunities in Kurdistan for the first time.

Search engine optimisation, or SEO for short, is defined as 'the process of improving ranking in search engine results'.

It is more than a year since the great Twitter adoption. Within a few months Twitter stories were all over the media.

Belfast, United Kingdom, February 1st 2010 - UK based, internet infrastructure and media solutions provider Aventure Host (http://www.aventurehost.com) has announced the launch of an instant domain name registration service set to confirm the company as one of the lowest cost domain name registrars in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Twitter can distract and make you endlessly digress and from a business perspective - take the wind out of your passionate sales.

- Complete infrastructure overhaul, Content Management System upgrade and a new, modern, robust and high performance GTC Website is launched – improving performance, uptime and user satisfaction -

Kainos, (www.kainos.com) a leading IT consulting company, has today announced another web project success, this time with the General Teaching Council for England (GTC) whose new website has exceeded expectations, improving performance, uptime and user satisfaction.

By coincidence in the same week that funding for a new visitor center at Giants Causeway was confirmed, news has also come that search giant Google is planning its own virtual tour. 

Google are currently producing 360 degree virtual tours of various National Trust sites and UNESCO World Heritage Sites including the Giants Causeway.

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The Deloitte Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Industry Group have announced its predictions for 2010.

The annual report highlights the significant impact the ‘prosumer’ - employees who buy technology devices for both work and play – will have on companies’ purchasing decisions. In addition, technology’s contribution to CO2 reduction in 2010 will also see the world’s first laboratory scale carbon-negative cement plant delivering significant reductions in global CO2 emissions.