Innovate CV’s launch of its Career and Training Centre, which provides candidates creative and interactive training, testing and career counselling courses, has been picked up by leading online recruitment resource Onrec.com

Getting a job in the current economic climate is not easy. Ensuring that a CV coherently represents a candidate’s abilities without spelling mistakes, poor grammar and missing information is one critical element to success but ensuring the right skills for the job are verified is essential.

To read the full article on Onrec, with details on Innovate CV’s Career Centre launch, click here

Kristian Carter of IF Communications will be appearing at the Being-Social conference on 13th May. Kristian will appear on the “Social Media: Strategy and Execution” panel alongside Andrew Gerrard, James Poulter, and Stephanie Rudat.

Innovate CV have built on their expanding presence in Social and Digital Media with the launch of a Facebook Page.

The page has a slick, impressive design, and aim’s to integrate Innovate CV’s presences across other Social and Digital media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, and its blog, RReL: Recruitment, Resumes and eLearning.

Innovate will be turning the page into a one stop shop for interacting with users, including Polls, Discussions, Feedback, Messaging, and Special Offers. All of these will tie together into a great resource for people looking for work, or just looking to improve their career prospects.

Great article from Fjord’s Managing Director Christian Lindholm in BusinessWeek. Fjord are a leading strategic design consultancy best known for bringing BBC iPlayer to the mobile, and we love working with them.

In this article, Lindholm argues that the popularity of smartphones and bite-sized apps for devices such as the iPhone is redefining the Internet and giving rise to a 3.5-inch Web.

The iPhone app model has affected the Internet in a more fundamental way, too. Its impact has been to create a world with two different Webs: We now have a “13-inch Web,” that consists predominantly of sites designed for desktop and laptop screens, served by a mouse pointer, and a new kind of Web optimized for 3.5-inch screens and built around finger use. The 3.5-inch Web is rapidly expanding. According to Cambridge (England) based mobile-search-engine company Taptu, there are now about 400,000 3.5-inch, touch-optimized sites and another 200,000 or so apps.

Christian’s last article on BusinessWeek, suggesting that Facebook’s next major move should be to release a mobile phone caused quite a stir, and was the most read article on BusinessWeek.com for two days after it’s release. It will be interesting to see if Fjord can repeat the success this time round.

C-I.TV has just published a 20 minute documentary about monetizing the mobile space, and we are happy to say that it features a number of our clients! There’s no option to embed the video, but you can check it out by clicking here

In all, the video features around six or seven different companies. Four of these are IF Communications clients – AND, Flirtomatic, Golden Gekko and InMobi. James Lamberti from InMobi opens the documentary, and AND’s Richard Titus has the last word.

A nice little showcase of IF Communications’ clients! Well done everyone.

With input from 120 experts in fields from architecture to advertising, software to science, Wired UK has released their first annual survey of Britain’s top digital power-brokers, and IF Communications client Richard Titus is at No. 60!

Richard is CEO of AND. AND is the publisher of 240 leading premium-content consumer websites with a global audience of 38 million. The international portfolio he oversees including Jobsite, Findaproperty, Globrix, Motors.co.uk, Allegran and AND online, and mobile businesses of Teletext. Richard is charged with operation of businesses, the growth of the AND portfolio, and larger consumer digital strategy. Richard led one of three BBC future media divisions at Controller Future Media, A&M and Mobile, and has founded/co-founded seven firms including Razorfish LA and Schematic.

IF Communications will be at SXSW with six clients, including three of the key entrepreneurs and innovators from Europe.

Richard Titus is CEO of AND, the publisher of 240 leading premium-content consumer websites with a global audience of 38 million. They have an international portfolio including Jobsite, Findaproperty, Globrix, Motors.co.uk, Allegran and AND online, and mobile businesses of Teletext. Richard is charged with the operation of businesses, growth of AND portfolio, and larger consumer digital strategy. Richard led one of three BBC future media divisions at Controller Future Media, A&M and Mobile, and founded/co-founded seven firms including Razorfish LA and Schematic.

Doug Richard, of School for Startups is one of the largest investors in tech companies, having invested £250m in 12 months. He is the CEO of School for Startups, which is a leading provider of business training for early stage entrepreneurs with 20 years’ experience in development/leadership of technology/software ventures. He featured in first two TV series of Dragon’s Den, is the founder and Vice-Chairman of the Cambridge Angels and School for Startups and Chairman of the Conservative Party Small Business Task Force.

Sharon Vosmek leads Astia, a community of experts committed to building women leaders, and accelerating growth of high, potential, high growth, women led startups. Sharon was previously at SJ Vosmek & Associates, a consulting firm focused on organisational change/growth. Clients included PG&E and PacBell. She is ex-American Express management, and has also worked in the office of United States Senator Dennis Deconcini.

All three are taking part in an eagerly anticipated panel debate on ‘How to Teach Entrepreneurialism Globally’. The debate reinforces the drive to empower entrepreneurial talent, an emerging global priority to realise ambitions to energise economies out of recession and into recovery. Doug Richard asserts that the legacy of recession presents governments with a once in a lifetime opportunity to harness entrepreneurship as a driver for national regeneration.

The panel will argue the case that the wealth of every nation rests on the shoulders of entrepreneurial activity and that it must be encouraged by governments and policy makers to stimulate economic growth.

Isabel Fox, Managing Director, IF Communications, who has organised the panel session, said, “Innovation has moved from being Silicon Valley–centric to being worldwide. We see entrepreneurs everywhere from small towns in developing countries like Brazil and India through to the developed world like Germany and Norway. Silicon Valley still remains the key focus for venture funding, but we must look to support entrepreneurs all over the word.”

Christian Lindholm, of leading digital design agency and IF Communications client Fjord, has been published on top tech blog VentureBeat for his round up of Mobile World Congress.

Mobile World Congress 2010 wrapped up for another year this evening in Barcelona. I have massively enjoyed seeing all the innovation — from the major global brands, to the developers walking around the Congress with their company in their back pocket.

The conference began amid a lot of speculation about Nokia’s absence and ended up with the arrival of new players in the space — Google and Microsoft. Windows Phone 7 Series in particular appeared to be generating a tremendous amount of excitement, and I think it represents a new paradigm in mobile.

You can see the full article here

IF Communications are always happy to secure coverage for our clients – we were therefore delighted to place Christian Lindholm of Fjord in Venturebeat for his piece on varying smartphone form factors.

The iPhone has not yet reached a level of emotional attachment where it will be bought even when reasonable substitutes exist. Some people will think, what the hell, I just want a phone, and this offers roughly the same experience.
The real turning point however, will be when developers stop trying to copy the iPhone’s design, and accept that they can create something unique and cool outside the iPhone’s form factor.

You can read the full article here

IF Communications client Fjord is one of the top thought leaders in the strategic design area, and Fjord’s Managing Director, Christian Lindholm, will be blogging his thoughts from the event on top tech blog Venturebeat

Mobile World Congress 2010 is a time of great excitement and trepidation for all connected with the mobile industry. Although it’s fashionable to be negative about the relevance of conferences today, Mobile World Congress, which takes place this week (Feb. 15-18) in Barcelona, Spain, is still a massively important event. Seasoned industry watchers use the event to make forecasts and predictions about the upcoming year, so I’ll be blogging from the event throughout the week.

Read as Christian predicts the event will be a story of Nokia out, Google in, and Apple in your pocket here