Want to further your creative career? Or are you getting ready to graduate? Here’s your chance to get your work in front of Digital Design industry leaders! The next event in The Dots Portfolio Masterclass Safari – in partnership with [...]
In this article (from Creative and Cultural Skills – a useful web resource for anyone wanting to start a creative career), Pete Mosley outlines some great tips for creatives on how to ‘find a niche’. This is a big issue [...]
On Tuesday, Accelerator hosted ‘From Idea to App Store’ – a speaker event as part of Digital Shoreditch Open House 2015. We had the chance to hear from a panel of industry experts – Toby Beresford (Founder and CEO of [...]
“Just like search was a decade ago and social was five years ago, content marketing is the next digital media revolution.” Yesterday, Nick Watt from Digital Doughnut gave a workshop at Accelerator on Digital Storytelling – all about using content [...]
Freelancing involves doing more than just producing work – for the second day of our bootcamp, participants focused on the other aspects of working for themselves. When starting out as a freelancer, it’s important to decide how to set a [...]
The first part of our Creative Freelance Bootcamp was on Friday! This was a great introduction to freelancing, given by Accelerator’s Creative Enterprise manager, Emma Thatcher. We had a very diverse group of attendees, including translators, PR freelancers, designers and [...]
On Thursday Accelerator hosted a Digital PR workshop led by David Alexander, Managing Director of Calacus – with consultant Becky Williams. The workshop provided lots of useful tips for developing and improving PR strategy. PR is important to consider when starting up a [...]
Here’s a great resource for anyone with a start-up – the Guardian Small Business Network is an online community where you can gain access to regular newsletters, blogs, live Q&A sessions and advice from the experts! For example: in March, [...]
Good news for the creative and tech startups here at Accelerator! Nesta has released a report – The Geography of the UK’s Creative and High-Tech Economies – showing fast growth in the UK’s creative, high-tech and STEM industries. The report [...]
In October, we were fortunate enough to hear some marketing and startup advice from the Marketing Director for Startups at Rackspace, John Webb. For those who missed it, John talked about the importance of startups following the right steps, setting [...]
