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Premier of our latest promotional video at 11 Downing Street

The 28th of October 2009 was an eventful day for Gateway Media and myself. We were able to premier our latest video work at Number 11 Downing Street as part of our parent charity, City Gateway, 10 year celebration. The event was attended by a number of Gateway Media's clients along with other partners of City Gateway and a number of MP's. The video shown was a short promotional video highlighting City Gateway's work followed by another… Continue

Posted on October 30, 2009 at 7:10pm —

With so many media channels available, why video still wins...

How Video Helps to Grow Business An interview with Steve Goodwin, CEO

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Posted on October 2, 2009 at 6:30pm —

Now that's what I'm talking about, Sir Ian McKellen comes to say hi!

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Posted on August 19, 2009 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Please become of a fan of Gateway Media!

Gateway Media on Facebook

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Representing UK Social Enterprise to the Japanese Government

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Posted on July 30, 2009 at 7:58pm —

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Premier of our latest promotional video at 11 Downing Street

October 30

Simon Baker added a blog post

With so many media channels available, why video still wins...

How Video Helps to Grow Business An interview with Steve Goodwin, CEO of What’s Up Information and Tilted Disco. Steve is also a Young Ambassador for the Princes Trust. 30th September 2009 Why did you need a video and what issues did it solve fo...

October 5

Simon Baker and Emerson Edwards are now friends

September 6

Simon Baker commented on Simon Baker's blog post 'Now that's what I'm talking about, Sir Ian McKellen comes to say hi!'

Hi Brooke, tis a good day in the world of City Gateway / Gateway Media... we have Peter Crouch an England footbal player coming down on Monday as well and we were featured on the BBC news yesterday http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8204783.stm ...

August 20

Brooke commented on Simon Baker's blog post 'Now that's what I'm talking about, Sir Ian McKellen comes to say hi!'

Oh WOW!! Amazing what the power of celebrity can do, aye? I was actually helping to book speakers for the upcoming FEAST CONFERENCE in NYC and did loads of research on celebrity activists and the power they have to influence people. Just look at ...

August 19

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Now that's what I'm talking about, Sir Ian McKellen comes to say hi!

Last Friday we made a visit to the youth club our parent charity operate to film Sir Ian McKellen (famed for his roles as Magneto in Xmen and Gandalf in Lord of the Rings) judge an art competition. Having previously agreed to do the voiceover fo...

August 19

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Please become of a fan of Gateway Media!

Gateway Media on Facebook

August 11

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August 11

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August 10

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Representing UK Social Enterprise to the Japanese Government

Social Enterprise is a movement that continues to gain momentum both within the UK (with over 55,000 SE's now active) and worldwide. I have recently seen a surge in interest in the sector, it all started with a visit from a group of Irish Entrepre...

July 30

Simon Baker commented on Brooke's blog post '7 Tools For Running a Startup Social Enterprise'

Very good practical tips. Thanks!

July 30

Simon Baker commented on Simon Baker's blog post 'Your digital marketing strategy: Getting it right first time - Free seminar for SE's in London'

Awesome, glad it is useful for you, I'll be putting up all of the slides from the workshops we deliver on here as and when we have them. Thanks, Simon

July 27

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The Gateway Media Summer eBulletin is now live

Well it's been a pretty crazy summer with some of our biggest video jobs to date and no number of website development enquiries but I have found the time to pull together some highlights for our Summer eBulletin to try and keep past and prospect...

July 27

Brooke commented on Simon Baker's blog post 'Your digital marketing strategy: Getting it right first time - Free seminar for SE's in London'

Wow, Simon, this is hugely helpful!! Thank you so much for posing it- I will definitely be using some of these tools when developing OMSEI!

July 16

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Your digital marketing strategy: Getting it right first time - Free seminar for SE's in London

Your digital marketing strategy: Getting it right first time Having attended a number of seminars, workshops, networking events and conferences we decided to put on our own workshop, titled as above. The aim of the workshop is to teach people h...

July 14

Simon Baker and Dave E. are now friends

July 12

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About Me:

My name is Simon Baker and I am a 25 year old social entrepreneur based in London www.gateway-media.co.uk. Having moved from a short stint with a multinational insurance broker into the world of small business and community involvement, I have come to realise that the lessons I learn could be of interest to others who want to get involved in entrepreneurship, business start ups and social enterprise.

http://youngsocialentrepreneur.blogspot.com/ An insight into the ups and downs of making small business a success whilst benefiting the wider community through maximising social outputs.

Website:

http://youngsocialentrepreneur.blogspot.com/

Favorite Social Entrepreneur:

Yvette Elkana - http://www.lemurpoint.com/

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At 1:58pm on July 12, 2009, Dave E. said…: Thanks for posting such great info! Please keep it up! I'm learning loads!

At 12:10am on May 15, 2009, Annie said…: hey simon!

this is just the type of service i need. thanks for doing what you do!

best

At 11:10am on May 13, 2009, Brooke said…: Hi Simon,

Thanks so much for joining the network and for being so active already! Your posts are great and I hope you continue to share your stories and tips and advice.

Cheers!