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Developing a career as a business leader – Interview with Recruit Human

We recently took part in an interview with Recruit Human, based around developing a career to become a business leader. Below is just an excerpt, the full interview is available on Humans website here.  “Having a personal relationship with somebody within your network—or somebody within your network’s network—who has been...

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Opus Open House – On a Stick…

A panel show unlike any other; for entrepreneurs, high growth businesses and digital transformers. About this Event Are you a marketing director or high growth entrepreneur who’s asked for the moon? Are you a digital creative, a technologist or an investor that’s delivered it? On a stick… brings to light...

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Five Halloween Marketing Horror Stories

To get you into the spirit of Halloween weekend, we’ve put together some of our favourite digital marketing and PR nightmares. These should hopefully demonstrate why you should always think before you do, as the smallest scratch can turn your brand zombie…  Out of control robots  A few years back Microsoft decided to launch an AI robot Twitter account. They did this as a PR stunt...

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Who’s visiting my website? And how can I find out?

Almost six years ago, we wrote an article on how you can find out who’s visiting your website. Although much of what we included in that article is still very valid; a lot has happened since then. The tool we use is the same, but its functions and benefits have...

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Internet Explorer is Dead.

Internet explorer is finally dead, so if you are still using it, here’s what you should do and which browser you should change to.   Browsers need to be supported by a huge team of software developers so they can keep up with the ever-changing technology landscape. From 17th August 2021, support will officially stop on Internet...

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Constructing a Life on Mars

Date: 12.03.20 / Time: 10am  How could human life survive on Mars? Where would we live, how would we get around and what about food and oxygen? These questions will be posed to 80 schoolchildren and 20 employer/student ambassadors on March 12th during a workshop delivered by 4wardFutures and hosted by Carpe Diem....

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UX trends to watch in 2020

So what are the biggest UX design trends predicted for 2020? Every passing year, UX design trends and techniques change. The designing principles, as well as processes, stay the same, but the trend of UXD evolves. With the changes in human behaviour, usage in tech devices and demands for interactive...

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WordPress makes perfect sense for enterprise companies

WordPress is both reliable and scalable, making it ideal for those businesses that demand the flexibility to grow online. An open-source framework has been fundamental to the success of WordPress and the nature of this environment is also perfectly suited to larger organisations from the get-go. Global brands such as...

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What happens to your social media accounts when you die?

It's not something that you don't want to think about, but after YouGov posted the question it got us thinking.  Your social media is full of pictures, messages and memories so they can be very valuable to relatives and friends once you pass away. So what should happen to them?...

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Creative and digital expo

On Thursday 7th November 2019, Carpe Diem and The Pledge will be holding a creative and digital expo. 150 year 10 students from schools all around Warrington will be able to find out more about the creative and digital sector.  They will be exposed to a panel of former students...

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The Donut Tour, First bite

Half-hour breakfast sessions, from 8am, open to all. Register your interest here. Sept. 17th – Prefab lives, Chris Hillidge from FabLab Sept. 19th – The Pledge, Aimee Ruddy and Stacey Rutter from the LEP Sept 24th – Don’t spoil a good story – Darren Jeffries from Ludovico Sept 26th –...

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Independence Day

Warrington’s business growth event for new and existing small businesses. A FREE half day business growth event intended to guide and support new and growing small businesses in the Warrington area. This is a private event. You need to be a WBEx member in order to register for this event....

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Priestley college games pitch

We welcomed four student gaming companies to Opus and our own Bill Carr sat on a judging panel with Arthur Parsons of TT Games, Mark Gregory of WA Games and Freesphere Entertainment plus producer and Girls Make Games facilitator Caoimhe Roddy. The winning team, Slime Mouse Games, have since taken...

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WA Games monthly meet up at Opus

Once a month Opus welcomes the members of WA Games who host their meetup in our collaboration space. Always focussed on making, whether pitches by students of Priestley College or expert speakers, like Tom Pugh, Level Designer from Lucid Games; WA Games supports the development and production of new gaming...

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#LinkedInLocal Warrington – summer 2019

Not heard about this networking movement yet ... then now is the time to tune in! If you're based in or near Warrington, come along to the next #LinkedInLocal Warrington event on Tuesday 25 June 2019. Following the successful and popular events of 2018, the hosting team is delighted to...

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Girls Make Games

Opus by Carpe Diem is proud to sponsor this game makers workshop at FabLab Warrington. Learn how to make video games with real game developers! A workshop suitable for girls aged 8-15.

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Opus Open House – Gen Z the view from WP Engine

WP Engine are bringing their Generation Z research, hot from MTEX 2019, to our second Opus Open House of 2019. Because they grew up immersed in a digital world, Gen Z’s level of dependency on digital experience is more pronounced than other generations. They turn to the web expecting authenticity, entertaining...

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Happy Birthday WBEx

Bill and Saul spoke at the first-anniversary conference of Warrington Business Exchange. Talking about our aspiration to build on the digital and tech ecosystem here in Warrington, we were pleased to get such a positive response from our peers across the public, private and third sectors. Not least our desire...

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Warrington & Cheshire become an LDSP

Carpe Diem’s MCD, Saul, chaired the LEP’s collation of voices for a successful application to become a Local Digital Skills Partnership. Recognition of our place in the national digital and tech sectors within government has been reflected by the DCMS decision to grant LDSP endorsement to our plan. Aligned with...

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Arts Council of England Visit

Darren Henley Chief Exec of ACE hosted by Carpe Diem at Opus. We were pleased and proud to welcome Darren on his visit to Warrington. As part of his guided tour of the town’s cultural developments, he stopped by to see how Carpe Diem are bringing the STEAM agenda to...

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Undergrads exposed to commercial realities

Our CEO, Bill, interacts as a panelist for the University of Chester’s Media Department. Compered by Ian Rasmussen, Bill sat on a panel with Ali McBride, Development Producer at Lion Television, and Shirley Jones of The Write Word. Meant as a careers session on campus, Bill shared industry expectations and...

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Maker’s A to Z

MD Thea Burrows and Exec Producer Luke Toyne from Maker shared their alphabeticalized (!) recommendations for commissioning great video content. Born from years of experience, reflected by their Bronze Lion from last year’s Cannes Festival, Thea and Luke’s interactive workshop spanned the whole journey from briefing to multi-platform delivery. The...

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Opus launch night

Over 150 delegates attended the launch of our digital and tech dedicated coworking space Opus, here in Pyramid, Warrington.From kanban to psychopaths and Lego to gin and beer tasting; our opening night was nothing if not eclectic. Our thanks go to Ian Carroll of Solutioneers, Dr Amy McKee of HooAreYoo...

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OPUS fitout – before and during

Previous Next OPUS Before and During fit out The OPUS co working space was formerly a art gallery that wasn't used often and not generating any money for the building. OPUS took over the space completely transforming it in a space for small businesses to work from and collaborate.  OPUS...

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Creating emotions with colour in web design

When designing a website, the colour is a very important aspect. The colour gives an emotional feel to the page that users unknowingly judge when then visit. We are going to talk about the fundamentals of the colour theory and how designers use it when creating brilliant websites. We will...

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How can I find out who is visiting my website?

Clients that are concerned about optimising their B2B Online Lead Generation from their website visitors, often ask the questionHow can I find out who is visiting my website?and the answer is quite a difficult one to explain – especially with the anonymity of website visitors being a big point of...

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Why your website is still one of your most important marketing tools.

Every day new methods of marketing come into fruition and can be very useful for different types of brands. However, it doesn’t matter how effective your marketing is if your website isn’t up to scratch. Your website is still a method of marketing and the experience a user has should...

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What are people doing on my website?

We can get analytics and data telling us where users enter and leave a website and also what pages they go on during, but we never really know how they are navigating through and what they are actually doing.Well, that’s what we thought until we discovered Mouseflow. Mouseflow records what the...