Today, LoughboroughLife.com launches the online Loughborough forums, along with Loughborough chat, local information and news, as well as a pub and business guide for the town.

Alec Hodgson, Editor of Loughboroughlife.com said “we’re pleased to announce the launch of Loughboroughlife.com, the first site for proper Loughborough news, local issues and the home of true Loughborough forums. “We have recruited local people to moderate the forums and to create groups for specific Loughborough communities and interests, so the website should have a local atmosphere.

“Our local editors have participated on other ‘local’ community sites that turned out to be uninterested in the local point of view. Loughboroughlife.com is different because the content and structure of the site is in the hands of the Loughborough community, not some overworked editor sitting in London or abroad”

The website launch will be accompanied by a further recruitment campaign using social media and a local leaflet drop in selected areas of the town. Residents will be asked to nominate someone to look after a forum dedicated to their area of the town.

Hodgson continues “Loughborough University should be an excellent resource for the Town, however at the moment it fails to fulfil that role. Through Loughboroughlife.com we will connect students with local residents and the many ways that cooperation can help improve the town.

The launch of Loughboroughlife.com presents an excellent opportunity for town and gown to work together. In particular the “Local Help” section of the forums allows volunteers to connect with local residents, gaining valuable experience but also contributing to the Loughborough community in a way not seen to date.”

LoughboroughLife.com will also explore Loughborough planning issues through their planning section and Loughborough planning forums, and will offer a definitive Loughborough pub guide which the town currently lacks and is needed by students and visitors to the town alike. If you want to get involved with LoughboroughLife.com, or for further information please contact alec@loughboroughlife.com

SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimisation”. It involves the method of gaining online traffic by having higher rankings in Search Engines. All major Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing rank your website based upon how well it meets the criteria for search Algorithms. Search Engines use Algorithms to identify and lower websites rankings for those sites that are low quality and have little relevance to users. The reason Search Engines do this is to produce quality listings on their pages.

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The recent Taste of Singapore food festival at the Kris restaurant in the Park Regis Kris Kris Hotel – Dubai turned out to be a true success drawing diners from all over the UAE. According to hotel General Manager, Scott Butcher, modern Asian dining is highly popular in the emirates. “We were delighted with the response from both Dubai residents and visitors to the city – it gave us an opportunity to showcase our signature restaurant, Kris, but it also introduced the spices and flavours of Singapore to diners through the skills and personal charm of celebrity chef Devagi Sanugam,” he said.
The multi-talented chef, who writes, teaches and generally preaches the doctrine of fresh and tasty Asian cooking, co-hosted the Taste of Singapore festival along with the hotel’s Executive Chef Poonsak Sumonratanakul, nightly entertaining diners at the 19th floor Kris restaurant.
In addition, Chef Devagi hosted two sell-out master classes, offering insider tips and professional expertise at morning sessions followed by lunch.
“The festival appealed across all nationalities in Dubai’s multi-cultural society, but we noted that many of those hailing from South East Asia were particularly pleased to be able to sample a taste of home here in Dubai, particularly with dishes prepared with such elan by Chef Devagi and Chef Poonsak” added Scott.
“There is enormous competition among Dubai restaurants, and our aim has been to establish the Kris restaurant as a venue that ranks among the best – the response indicates the team has distinguished itself, and the public can expect more such events in the future.”
Located on the 19th floor of the Park Regis Kris Kin hotel opposite BurjumanShopping Mall, KrisRestaurant offers cuisine inspired from the ancient spice trail throughChina, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India and Arabia as well as 360 degree views of the Dubai skyline, a chic cocktail lounge, walk-in wine cellar, both intimate and group table settings and a refined Oriental décor to match the elegance of the cuisine.
For more information please visit www.kris.ae.

Sydney social media experts, Elevate Consulting, have now packaged their social media services. In three years of experience in online visibility, Elevate has worked out a model of how to make social media feasible for any kind of business. While for some businesses a smartly designed Facebook custom landing page can bring in additional revenue, other forms of companies may require different strategies to generate leads. Elevate Consulting customises social media tools for its clients concerning their demand, budget and possibilities. Who tries to google the definition of “social media” will find uncountable descriptions and definitions. To make sense of all these explanations is another issue. In short, social media is an umbrella term. They appear in different forms and include different technologies – the diversity seems endless. Starting with App through to YouTube, hardly anyone knows how to utilse microblogs, social networking sites or podcasts effectively.

Are you one of the estimated 200,000 people around the world are taking part in National Novel Writing Month? Have you written your first line?

If so, you could win a cash prize from Jurgen Wolff, author of “Your Writing Coach.” First prize is $100, second is $50, third is $25, and seven honorable mentions get a copy of his book.

There’s no entry fee, you just enter your first line at the website, http://www.NaNoWriMoContest.com Why a contest for a first line? “Just to encourage writers to get started,” Wolff says. “We don’t have any official link with NaNoWriMo but I like to think we have the same spirit of playfulness. And it’s going to be fun to read them all.”

What makes a first line great? “The most basic thing is that it should make you want to read the second line,” Wolff says. “If every sentence makes you want to read the next one, you’ll suddenly realize it’s four in the morning and you’ve read the whole book. That’s what every writer hopes will happen with his or her book.”

The first line can be funny, dramatic, scary, or anything else, as long as it’s interesting.

“I’d suggest not starting with the weather unless you have a particularly intriguing way of describing it,” he advises. “Also don’t have your character look into the mirror and describe what he or she looks like. That’s clumsy exposition. Other than that, anything goes.”

Wolff will create a short list but the top three winners will be chosen by agent Julian Friedmann, of London’s Blake Friedmann Literary Agency, and an editor to be confirmed. The deadline for entries is midnight Sunday, December 4, 2011 and the winners will be announced on December. 15. Full details and the entry form are at http://www.NaNoWriMoContest.com.

Liven Creative Ltd (Liven) is a newly formed design and marketing consultancy based in Woking, Surrey. Our aims is to deliver unique and innovative experiences by creating positive and engaging brands, websites, digital campaigns, stunning literature and creative media experiences.

The company was established following a chance meeting between James Glass, Managing Director of Climax Consultants and Andrew Myles, Managing Director of Myles Creative. Both individuals realised that by working together they would be able to manage a larger portfolio of work, lay the foundations for an ambitious agency and ultimately create innovative and commercially viable solutions, which deliver real value on investment for clients.

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Raising the digital publishing bar once again, Andrews UK have released ‘A Dream of Christmas 3D (Enhanced Version) on Apple’s iBookstore which features true 3D video.

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The company have achieved this by including formatted video (which they created) within the eBook which – when using Apple’s Digital AV Cable connected to a 3DTV – plays a full, immersive six-and-a-half minute 3D Film which complements the story of the book. The story and film focus on a classic Christmas tale where a child dreams of visiting Santa’s toy factory – but is it just a dream?

Andrews UK has always pushed the boundaries of what is possible in eBook publishing. As a company which offers digital publishing partnerships, and also a distribution service to all publishers (as well as distributing their own published content from individual authors across a wide range of genres), Andrews UK has often been the first to market with the latest technologies.

CEO Paul Andrews said “We are very pleased to have achieved this milestone. Staying one step ahead of the global game is central to our business model.

“We have a history of being one of the leaders in digital publishing. When other companies were getting to grips with Kindle, we already had a distribution model to not only Kindle but also over 200 platforms and retailers worldwide. When the Apple iPad was launched we had in the region of 10% of all global app books for sale on day one. While the marketplace was talking about the latest text-formatting techniques, we were publishing full-colour rich media eBooks. Now, whilst the latest buzzword is fixed-format – something we have offered since the day retailers allowed it – we’re offering books with 3D content.”

Andrews UK are probably the industry’s best-kept secret. In addition to publishing their own titles, they also convert and distribute content for companies such as Apex Publishing, Accent Press, Brilliant Publications, Imprint Academic, agents such as Ed Victor and many more – their website showcases a wealth of partners, with quotes showing a great deal of positive feedback.

Another element that sets Andrews UK aside from other companies who say they offer a ‘conversion and distribution service’ is that AUK offers a true ‘no-fee’ publishing partnership and distribution model. Paul Andrews was keen to highlight how important this is to their publishing partners:

“If other companies who only offer a conversion and distribution service truly believed in the content they are working on, they would do the same as us – we invest in our partner’s content and work purely on a revenue-share model. This has allowed countless publishers to join the eBook revolution without having to invest thousands of pounds upfront into converting their catalogue. As a company we have already invested heavily in both time and money to create an advanced environment for eBook conversion, storage, distribution and most importantly monthly reporting and payment systems. Every book we turn into an eBook is converted in-house by real people in own UK-based offices. All our work is carried out by hand and eye – not at automated machine – and we ensure the files pass validation, which is often found not to be the case. We have worked with some publishers who have initially tried to work with outsourced conversion houses and distribution companies and found quality severely lacking – hence partnering with us. We work with our partners to convert and distribute their content to hundreds of platforms and retailers worldwide, and it doesn’t cost them a single penny. This means publishers can generate an entirely new revenue stream with no investment – how often can you say that!”

“With our new 3D eBook we hope to show the world what can be done with rich media content, and also aim to delight children all over the globe with this wonderful book and video”

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Firstly, what is AVI? AVI is short for Audio Video Interleaved, an AVI file is a sound and motion picture file that conforms to the Microsoft Windows Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) specification,it requires a special player that may be included with your Web browser or may require downloading. If AVI file want to play on QuickTime player, it must convert AVI format to the formats QuickTime supported like MOV.

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New sheet map of London is the first to take advantage of the “Free our Data Campaign” and Ordnance Survey’s recent relaxation in licensing policies.

Cassini Maps has launched a new folded sheet map of London using Ordnance Survey data at 1:50,000 scale.

One may initially think, “so what? Another map of London?” However the story behind this seemingly unremarkable occurrence shows it is rather more than that. The Ordnance Survey Landrangers at 1:50,000 scale, often referred to as the pink maps (unsurprisingly, due to their distinctive pink covers), have provided the definitive coverage of Great Britain since the 1970s. These are derived from a seamless digital map of Great Britain which is chopped into manageable 40km x 40km chunks and printed on a series of large sheets – 204, to be exact. The problem with chopping the country up in this way is that there are going to be towns or cities which fall across a join. Norwich, Swansea, Sheffield and Ordnance Survey’s home city of Southampton all suffer from this problem to some degree. But nowhere suffers as badly as London.

The capital is split across two Landrangers, 176 (West London) and 177 (East London) with a considerable overlap. It’s not known why this seemingly odd decision was taken; but once made, Ordnance Survey did not re-adjust the coverage, despite the fact that the whole of London more or less up to the M25 can be accommodated on one Landranger-size sheet.

This is the problem that Cassini has solved with its new London map using Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 mapping data.

“This problem struck us when we preparing our boxed set of historical Ordnance Survey maps of London in 2007,” Cassini’s Cartographic Director James Anderson recalls. “We’d already spent three years scanning and combining historical maps to match the Landranger sheets and people had to buy twice as many maps as they really needed to cover the whole of London. So, we decided to create a set of historical maps centred on Charing Cross.”

Five such maps of the city having been created, the logical step was to produce a matching present-day one. “Unfortunately,” Anderson recalls, “Ordnance Survey’s licensing policy at that time prohibited anything other than one-off reproduction of this data at larger than A3 size. Somewhat to our surprise, and much to our disappointment, we were therefore unable to proceed. We were convinced there was a demand for this, both as a stand-alone and as part of our London map set; but, as matters stood, nobody but Ordnance Survey could satisfy it. We can’t deny it was frustrating – rather like publishing a book but with the last chapter missing.”

The following years witnessed ever-intensifying discussions between Ordnance Survey, the government, the OFT and various other interested parties to bring these licensing regulations into line with current attitudes and regulations concerning freedom of information, competition and third-party access to public data. Between April 2010 and May 2011, various far-reaching licensing relaxations were finally announced. One of the many changes was to the 1:50,000 mapping, which could now be produced by other publishers in formats which Ordnance Survey had previously been unwilling to provide.

For the first time since the inception of the Landranger series in the 1970s, a new full-sized sheet map at 1:50,000 was born. The whole city is now available, at a glance and on one sheet – and using the most up-to-date version of the familiar, authoritative Ordnance Survey mapping that has been part of the national consciousness for nearly four decades.

The map has an RRP of £6.95 (zero-rated for VAT) is available from a wide range of retail outlets and on-line at www.cassinimaps.com ISBN: 9781847368195

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About Cassini
Cassini Publishing Ltd (Cassini Maps), provides high quality reproductions of Ordnance Survey historical mapping. The company was formed in 2006 with the aim of scanning, preserving and providing web and print access to the UKs national heritage of historical mapping. As well as producing printed maps that match modern day OS maps for easy comparison (never previously attempted), Cassini provides immediate downloads and prints of many different types of historical OS mapping using Cassini ‘Mapmaker’, an on-line browse-and-search service that allows users to identify easily their area of interest on a historical map – a vital tool for genealogists, researchers and anyone with an interest in the history of their local surroundings.

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