SME article written by Mark Williamson from the Herald.

Thanks to all those who took part in the first HR Innovators event on 15th June. The event was a great success; we had a good turnout and hope you all enjoyed the day and took away something useful.

Special thanks to all the speakers who did a great job and also to the COSLA team for the use of their facilities.

You can find the speaker presentations from the event here and view images from the event on Flickr.

Ross Hamill

Now in its second year Digital Dragons is inspired by a desire to offer children from less privileged backgrounds the opportunity to grow self confidence, improve their teamwork capabilities, social skills and getting insight into working life in a leading digital agency, and to instil in them a belief that it doesn’t matter where you come from, success can be yours with hard work, self belief, support and a bit of luck.

Even when going on holiday you can't escape modern technology! Here I was getting away from it all by going on a sailing trip with my two good friends Giles and Roger up the west coast of Scotland and I get someone telling me about this great website and mobile site. I suppose making a living in the digital world attracts people to you with everything technology. From "my printers not working, can you fix it" to "can you change the language back from Spanish to English on my mobile", you always get approached. However this time it was quite interesting.

YouTube recently revealed their latest statistics which show 50% increase in video upload and an extra 1 billion views over a one year period.  The accessibility of the internet plus advances in mobile technology allow quick access to the channel, there are 100 million mobile views per day and 2 billion global video views being monetized.

Following our recent win at the Herald Digital Business Awards, Spider Online has been asked to present a case study on the award winning project at the DMA’s Integrating Digital into a Communications Strategy. The event will take place at Lloyds Banking Group offices in Edinburgh on 22nd November 2011.

Gordon Swan, Marketing and Communications Manager at Golden Charter will be joining John Campbell, Managing Director of Spider Online, to talk through the project from a client’s perspective.