It’s been 3 months in the making, with long days, far too many weekends and some insane scope changes (sorry beef!) but we’re delighted to beta launch phase 4 of the BM web site. The site has been soft launched today (Tuesday 19th August). It’s still a beta version whilst we are ironing out any bugs and sorted things that have slipped through the net.

But in the meantime update your company profiles!!!

After the beta phase we plan to start promoting BM and ramping up our marketing activity across all industry trade press, positioning the site and network as Bristol’s one-stop-shop for the creative and media industries.

We’ll also be pushing JOBS, JOBS, JOBS much harder too, as many of you have reported back to us that you’ve filled lots of job vacancies via the site. So, from September we’ll be working hard to make sure anyone who wants to move West knows that BM is the first place to look for all the best vacancies from all the best companies.

Other improvements ti the site include:

• More local sector news and national RSS feeds
• redesigned email newsletter
• Better events calendar
• The ability to add more company information on individual profiles
• wider search facility
• a totally revamped jobs section

We’ve also introduced a new showcase section and individual industry sector pages and the ability to incorporate selected advertising and sponsorship opportunities across the site.

So we’re nearly there. There’s still some work to do and content to input, but we hope you can see, it’s a major leap forward.

As ever, thoughts and feedback appreciated!