Got 'em by the Googles!

Fully enjoyed the trip out to North Walsham (North Walsham Community Centre, New Rd, North Walsham NR28 9DE) to meet the Google Digital Garage Team. What a great day with a fabulous itinerary and so grateful that Google are visiting Market Towns where the sessions are needed most. Being a strong advocate of local technological service provision and training for web technologies, our conversations with the Google representative suggested they would be interested in doing a Case Study.

(Check out Maria's PR page on the website with Phillip Hammond, MP visiting Adande Refrigeration after a letter Maria wrote to talk about the future prospects for business success and confidence in the region). This comes after John Humphries' BBC Panorama Is There Hope ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05p35hh ) painting a gloomy picture of the outlook for the town. (More on that in another post!)

But seriously folks, access and provision of tuition for coding skills and online technologies here in North Suffolk is very difficult to access at a higher level without travelling way across the county to Ipswich - and it's so much more important to invest the training in rural areas, for all the right reasons too.

Mid afternoon, there was a surprise visit by the MP Norman Lamb and it was heartening and useful to be introduced directly and chat to realise that the matter is being given some thought and support in the region.

And, forget the man from Del Monte, or Mr Kipling, the non-gender Google makes exceedingly good cakes!

Here's the itinerary from the day - very valuable:

• Build a Digital Marketing Plan
  
• Social Media Strategy
  
• Get Your Business Visible on Google
  
• An Introduction to Digital Advertising
  
• Know Your Business with Data