The event is free to attend and takes place on 12 October, from 1 – 5pm at mac, hosted by The Producers Forum.

“Social capital” now has a very real value and multiplatform storytelling is increasingly the way to ensure that our projects are contemporary, compelling and wide reaching.

CiB’s Chris Unitt will be on one of the panels of guest speakers, along with Natasha Carlish, Nick Booth, Dave Harte, Julia Higinbottom, Pip & Lisa/Jenny and Helga Henry. They’ll be discussing how their experience in using social capital and multiplatform storytelling has lead to some exciting and innovative projects and new ways of working. The event will also feature a live and recorded web cast from the annual Power to the Pixel conference.

Book your place via their eventbrite page.

I linked to Switchboard a couple of weeks back in one of those round-ups. It’s billed as:

a steering group which aims to put the West Midlands at the forefront of the convergence revolution

To kick things off, they’ve put together a survey to see what sort of support people and companies in the creative sector might need.

The survey is online here and is only a quick one-pager. Fill it in by 17 September and you’ll be included in a draw to win a bottle of champagne.

For what it’s worth, I’m sitting on the steering group and, although it’s early days, I’m of the opinion that this could be a Useful Thing.