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It is with great pleasure that BIMA announces the Special Awards Shortlist for 2009. In addition to the categories already published, the judges selected entries that stood out as exceptionally stimulating examples of the specialist interactive crafts. Without further ado, here they are.

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Readers Rooms
AMVBBDO

Things to Come, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic pilot
Stardotstar
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I’m thrilled to announce the BIMA Awards best blog shortlist. We were overwhelmed with nominations, with an enormous range of content and type of blogs submitted. We’ve been through every blog with a fine toothcomb and picked the cream of the crop for the public vote. Now it’s up to you, the public, to vote
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Today Ben Bradshaw MP will announce the wish list that is the result of the Digital Britain consultations and report undertaken by Lord Carter. It’ll be a long list. The Interim report published in January had 22 action points. The actual report will likely have twice that, and BIMA members should take note of the
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been involved in a response to the Digital Britain Interim Report. BERR ( The Government Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) have been listening and are now reading the final report submission we put in with interest. Read the report at the link above, and consider putting your
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There’s nothing more useful than practical advice in our business. And BIMA needs to be a place to get it. Requests do come in from careers advisory people from all over the place, and it’s a positive step to be able to respond. As a voluntary body, it’s hard for BIMA to get the commitment
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I’ve commented today on the Digital Britain report. Pick up on the debate #carter #digitalbritain if you have a moment today and agree/disagree/add. What I’ve said is that  I’d like to understand, explicitly, what vision the report will inspire for the creative industries of Britain, in particular amongst the digital practitioner businesses which are, on
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The Digital Britain report is about establishing a proper platform for the digital economy, and will have far reaching impact across many industries, not just this one. From a creative perspective, the Government is keen to leverage Britain’s internationally-recognised talent in online, and in particular mobile and small screen development, as well as move on
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The agency world is reaching a t-junction and I firmly believe that business has to be able to encourage a new set of skills and management style, grown up in the digital environment, that are properly collaborative and celebrate the people that deliver value for the company. I watched the Obama inauguration with my children,
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Terrific night at the BIMA awards last night. Well done to AKQA for Agency of the Year and the the Students from Hull on the table next to ours who were having such a laugh. And farewell, too, to Janice Cable, who has been such a stalwart of BIMA since the beginning. Amusing it was
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One of the big issues facing the interactive industry is the language. Clients speak one language. Media people speak another. Developers speak yet another. And creatives – well, a few choice words can work wonders. I’ve been in the interactive world for a long time – launching interactive television in the early nineties, would you
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