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Social enterprises – the art of giving #IamSBSM

What is social enterprise? Starting a social enterprise business is a challenge for people who have a mission with a social purpose but also want to create a profit. Social enterprise describes how businesses achieve social, economic, community and cultural improvement through their existence. These companies can be for-profit or non-profit organisations that create common activities […]

Top 10 tips to improve your professional digital identity

Here at Salford Business School, our MSc Digital Marketing and Business IT students are often building their own websites and connecting their professional social media networks to create a professional digital identity online. For many careers in IT and business, this digital identity can be a really important and powerful tool. It enables you to engage with […]

Competition: Win a ticket to #CampDigital

Future Entrepreneurs Wanted: Calling all innovators! What: Camp Digital is an inspirational conference that brings together the digital, design and user experience (UX) communities for a series of seminars and workshops exploring the latest thinking. When: 23 April 2015. Where: Museum of Science & Industry, (MOSI Manchester). The Centre for Digital Business is setting students a […]

Digital health futures: symposium on digital health review

Some time ago I published a blog post regarding a conference concerning the future of Digital Health (Aspects of Digital Innovation: Digital Health). The event was part of the EPSRC Digital Economy, Sustainable Society Network plus project with Imperial College London, has just taken place! The conference was held at the University of Salford Campus […]

Let’s talk about what we can do with UX…

I’ve always seen the importance in User Experience (UX) but I found it a bit hard to find out where to start with really getting to know the practice and apply it in my work. As a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) associate in a role of Digital Marketing Executive at Salford Business School I took […]

Partnership management: seven lessons from international collaborations

Partnerships across organisations are often the most effective way to solve complex social and global problems. However, as many project managers know, whilst managing a team of individuals from one organisation can be a challenge in itself, bringing together a team across multiple organisations across different countries and cultures brings an extra level of complications […]

Android operating system: is it safe and secure?

Google have decided to stop providing security updates for older Android Operating System devices, which could account for 60% of users, over a billion mobile phone and tablet users. There was no official announcement to notify all the users affected and suggest a way forward. A smart phone operating system (OS) is essentially the software that […]

Organisational capacity of non profit organisations in the Russian Federation

This study examined the work of health and health care non-profit organisations (NPOs) in the Russian Federation and how such organisations provide services to their clients. It adds to the debate on the role NPOs play in complementing and/or substituting for services normally provided by the Russian state. Despite the importance on NPOs in ensuring […]

NARTI workshop: 10 academic online profile development lessons

Salford Business School in collaboration with the Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI) organised a workshop to help PhD students and academics to develop their online profiles. This hands on workshop allowed participants to review their personal academic profile strategy and plan future activities to increase their research impact. NARTI is an association of leading […]

How an entrepreneurial family business goes global

DiscreteHeat is a Manchester-based family business. Their product is an ingenious heating system, which hides radiators inside a skirting board. Martin Wadsworth, DiscreteHeat Managing Director, first appeared on Dragons Den in 2006 with his heating product, which is aimed at people who want to avoid those ugly wall-hung radiators. Since then, Martin has grown his […]