Manchester Digital is delighted to announce five new council members and 1 re-elected council member in the 2015 elections.

With 18 candidates standing this year, the competition was fierce but the following 6 people have now been elected by the Manchester Digital membership to help to drive the organisation forwards:

• Alison Ross, Autotrader
• Chris Marsh, UKFast
• Gemma Cameron, Hack Manchester
• Richard Gregory, Freelance
• Simon Wharton, PushON
• Vikas Shah, Swiscot

Katie Gallagher, Managing Director of Manchester Digital said "These are exciting times as we welcome the new council. It's great to see such a diverse mix of people and backgrounds joining us. I'm really looking forwards to tackling some of the big issues facing our industry with them! We'd like to thank all the candidates for standing and for supporting their trade association".

You can read more about the new council here

• Ivan Kennes
• Robert Walters Recruitment
• Adomedia

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DueCourse​, a financial technology startup based in Manchester, announced the launch of their online invoicing software for small businesses and freelance workers earlier this month.

Currently 1.7m small businesses in the UK bill a total of £275bn per year using paper invoices or invoices created on Word/Excel. This often appears unprofessional to their customers, and often leads to the businesses being paid late as they are unable to keep on top of invoices that become overdue.

With ​DueCourse small businesses can now create and send ‘smart’ digital invoices that will help them get paid faster, and remove the hassle of chasing payments. All for free.

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Multi award-winning UX agency, Keep It Usable, announce another award win for an innovative new health app, ClinTouch.

This easy to use app, designed by UX experts at Keep It Usable, provides an innovative new way of supporting people with psychosis, enabling early intervention and significant cost reductions for the NHS.

This revolutionary digital intervention, developed by Manchester University empowers self-management for people with psychosis and reduces serious episodes occurring, improving the lives of individual patients and reducing NHS service costs, such as unplanned admissions and A&E presentations.

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A world first data sharing project to improve the poor health of people across northern England will get underway in the autumn, the Treasury has announced.

Earlier this year, a £20m grant was handed to a partnership of leading northern universities, teaching hospitals and health science experts to prepare the scheme.

The Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) – or Health North – is creating ‘Connected Health Cities’ to analyse data on the effectiveness of different drugs, treatments and practices.

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From autumn 2015, the Manchester Digital events calendar is full of more conferences and social events than ever before.

We're running Start Up Stories, Mage Titans, NUX4 and our annual Christmas Party in autumn/winter 2015 and from early 2016, we have the DPM:UK Conference, Skills Festival, Digital Revolution conference and more! 

All of these events offer fantastic networking and profile raising opportunities as well as the chance to meet new talent for your business. If you want to get involved with the digital community at a grass roots level, then look no further! 

Check out the sponsorship opportunities here

Reissue of the design and delivery  of a new Microsoft Exchange platform and the migration of the existing MS Exchange 2007 service to the new platform.

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