Posted: August 22nd, 2012 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Lincolnshire Digital | Tags: broadband, Business Growth, Business Opportunities, Cloud Computing, Digital Inclusion, flexible working, Growing the business, home working, Keys to success, onlincolnshire, rural broadband, Rural Services Network | Comments Off
A Top Ten list pinpoints the rural areas where online entrepreneurs are boosting the local economy.
The Rural Digital Trailblazers league table was devised by internet giant Google, which teamed up with the Countryside Alliance.
The project aims to highlight that entrepreneurs needn’t be based in an industrial centre or a traditional urban hub to start or grow a business.
It is being promote to support rural businesses and help more entrepreneurs to get online. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 18th, 2012 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Lincolnshire Digital | Tags: broadband, Business Advice, Business Growth, Business Opportunities, Business Support, Can't Get Online, competitiveness, Creative Industries, Digital Inclusion, Digital Industries, flexible working, Growing the business, innovation, Keys to success, Networks, New Media Industries, Planning for the business's future, Public Sector, rural broadband | Comments Off
Over twenty digital businesses from across the county were at the Think Tank last night to hear a series of presentations about the roll out of superfast broadband in Lincolnshire and the business opportunities that are being generated. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 30th, 2012 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Lincolnshire Digital, News | Tags: broadband, Business Advice, Business Growth, Business Opportunities, Business Support, Can't Get Online, Digital Inclusion, Digital Industries, Economic Growth, flexible working, Growing the business, Public Sector, rural broadband, WiFi, work life balance | Comments Off
THREE east coast villages should have a superfast broadband connection by the autumn under a new pilot scheme.
Ingoldmells, Chapel St Leonards and Willoughby with Sloothby have been selected among only a handful of other rural locations to form part of a small scale roll out by Lincolnshire County Council.
Posted: March 3rd, 2012 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Lincolnshire Digital, News | Tags: Creative Industries, Digital Inclusion, Digital Industries, flexible working, Mobile Technology, New Media Industries | Comments Off
…. well, almost
Mobile devices will outnumber the world’s population in just four years. By 2016, there will be more than 10 billion devices that connect to the internet, shared between 7.3 billion people.
About 90 per cent of mobile data will be viewed through smartphones, laptops and portable gadgets, according to computer networking company Cisco Systems. They also predict that mobile data traffic will grow by almost 80% a year.
Cisco’s Suraj Shetty said: ‘This impressive growth in mobile traffic will be driven by more powerful devices, like tablets, using faster networks such as 4G and wi-fi.’
Posted: February 24th, 2012 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: News | Tags: Collaboration, Creative Industries, Digital Inclusion, Digital Industries, Enterprise, flexible working, innovation, Networks, reduced overheads, teams, Working as a team | Comments Off
After months of searching, NESTA finally reveals Britain’s 50 New Radicals!
In partnership with the Observer, and using an expert panel of judges, NESTA has identified who they think are the people and organisations who are changing Britain for the better; those applying fresh approaches in practical and scalable ways, through social, technological, scientific and artistic methods. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: December 14th, 2011 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Business | Tags: broadband, Business Advice, Business Support, Creative Industries, Economic Growth, Enterprise, flexible working, Growing the business, home working, Marketing, Networks, Planning for the business's future, work life balance | Comments Off
Weekly business tweet – #11
Not so long ago you were not a proper business if you did not an office address, is it acceptable to run a business from your home address. So what are the alternatives?
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Posted: November 2nd, 2011 | Author: CDI Alliance | Filed under: Business | Tags: competitiveness, creative nomads, customer service, flexible working, home working, innovation, Productivity, reduced overheads, staff satisfaction, teams, WiFi, work life balance | Comments Off
Weekly business tweet – #05
Does anyone remember clocking in for 8.30am, out and in for lunch and out again at 5.00pm? Did you have an electronic time keeping system with the file of reconciliation sheets you had to produce for errors? Older friends tell us of the days of interviews when you were not appointed if you could not make it in for 8.30am. These memories are not extinct in some organisations but most have adopted flexible and mobile working to improve services, reduce costs and be more responsive to customer demands. So where is the world of work going? What are the smart ways of working that reduce costs and improve business performance?
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