Just a quick Monday update on what we're doing this week.

Our e-Tourism seminars keep rolling on, and this time we are heading for Fort William to help the Outdoor Capital of the UK keep up with the latest trends in internet developments and marketing.



We're sure that attendees will be suitably impressed by our latest information on using Social Media for marketing. It's a whole different approach to the web and one which cannot be ignored if you really want to develop relationships with your customers.

Looking forward to it.

As part of our relationship with the Scottish Tourism Forum we provided two shortened seminars at the Scottish Hospitality Expo on Tuesday and Wednesday.

These seminars saw our first public airing of our new stream of marketing through Social Networking and introducing businesses to the concepts which Netdata Projects will be promoting over the coming weeks.

A lively venue and some high profile speakers, including Marco Pierre White and the First Minister Alex Salmond, provided a good atmosphere, and we hope attendees went away with some new ammunition for their online strategies.




Thanks again to the Scottish Tourism Forum for their ongoing committment.

With the ever changing nature of the internet, and our growing portfolio of expertise, we decided that it would be a good idea to develop a completely separate strand of the business. Known as ND Projects this will focus more on our seminars, consultancy and social networking streams.





Netdata Ltd. will continue to deliver web design and devlopment, hosting and domains etc. and we'll continue to move both sides of the business forward, but we believe that this split will result in a more focused service for all potential customers.

Following on from our very successful E-Tourism workshops towards the end of last year, we have just finalised the latest events for March and April.

Last year we travelled to the remoter parts of Scotland to help boost knowledge of the internet and how it can be applied to your business, with an emphasis on the tourism industry. We visited Lochgilphead, Fort William, Portree, Forres, Inverness and Stornoway.

And now we're set to head to the far North. With Wick, Lerwick and Kirkwall the next stops on our grand tour.

Again we'll be accompanied by the Scottish Tourism Forum, and with Rene Looper of Tuminds Ltd., to help give you the benefit of their own experiences.

The dates for the latest workshops are as follows, we hope you enjoy:

19th March 2008 - Wick
31st March 2008 - Lerwick
25th April 2008 - Kirkwall

Further details can be found on the HIE Workshops website