social media week

SMWLDN Event Spotlight @ The Hub – Ogilvy Keynote: The Insidious Plot to Socialise The Enterprise

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Ogilvy Keynote: The Insidious Plot to Socialise The Enterprise, Tuesday 14th February, 11am - 1pm

Oglivy, our London Supporting Sponsor present this deabte at the main Hub for this year’s Social Media Week London, The Design Council, sponsored by Google +.

We’re delighted to announce Ogilvy as this year’s Official London Supporting Sponsor for Social Media Week London 2012. 

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Social Media Week London: Skills, Careers & Recruitment Event Highlights

Help Wanted by Sam Michel

As this year's Social Media Week London kicks off next week (13-17th Feb), I asked Lauren to scan the 150+ events that make up the schedule with an eagle-eye for events focusing on recruitment, careers, skills and social media.

She found some corkers, which are listed below, the majority of which are free to attend. The full schedule has an enormous variety of events covering subjects from Freedom of Tweet: Censorship, Government, Marketers and the Law (Tues 14th Feb, 1 - 5pm @ Design Coucil) to Collaborating on Cancer (Weds 15th Feb, 2 - 3.30pm @ City Hall).

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Nokia Social Innovation Lab

In this social media lab, you’ll get your chance to soak up some inspiring stories about starting a business, working for a cause, doing good or turning an idea into a successful career… all with the help of a little social media (of course).

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Date: 15 February 2012
Location: Design Council, UK

Sex, Love & Social Media

It’s Valentine’s day and the billions of people using social media will be connecting, friending, ‘booking, liking, plusing, klouting, IMing more than ever before. How our relationships and our affections are being moulded by the technology? Join our expert panel to find out more...

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Date: 14 February 2012
Location: Design Council, UK

Social media + digital commerce = online success

Warren Knight, Social Commerce expert, will be sharing how to drive traffic to your online store with a multi-channel experience. Learn how to optimise your online store using the latest social commerce tools and design whilst devising a monthly content marketing strategy that consumers will fall in-love with.

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Date: 17 February 2012
Location: Central Working, UK

Social Media for your brand - Taking your brand into the social web... and coming out on top

Getting it right on the social web isn’t easy. While brands and agencies have more platform and service options these days they also have to face the realities of a crowded social marketplace and increasingly hostile natives. So how does a brand go social when the social web just wants the brands to go home?

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Date: 16 February 2012
Location: Central Working, UK

Mind the Gap: Avoiding a Social Media Skills Crisis

This session will explore the digital industry’s seemingly insatiable appetite for social media skills. But where are the skills coming from? Academia? On-the-job learning? Is social media baked into the DNA of the digital natives? And are they needed for specific social media roles or will the social media purist become a thing of the past?

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Date: 13 February 2012
Location: Design Council, UK

#CanMan Candidates Announced

Two individuals swap cities – equipped with nothing but a smartphone, they attempt to live off the goodwill of the locals through social media for a week!

In conjunction with Social Media Week, Can Man Live on Social Media Alone is a daring cross-city social experiment to evaluate whether one intrepid traveller can depend on nothing but the good will of locals and the power of social media to survive in a foreign city for one week.

From 9th – 15th February, our #CanManLondon and our #CanManSG will trade cities, power up their social media channels and prepare for the best (or worst).

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Making B2B Social Media a Success

As part of Social Media Week London, Catalysis is hosting an event that explores the unique challenges that B2B social media campaigns present. There will be two presentations from leading technology companies, CA Technologies and Polycom, followed by a Q&A session. Register here: http://bit.ly/wfzkr9

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Date: 16 February 2012
Location: Catalysis offices, 3.16 Clerkenwell Workshops, UK

Calling All Start-ups: Ogilvy's SMW Social Spin @ London Eye, Apply Now!

London Eye

On Wednesday 15th February, Ogilvy & Mather are hosting the Ogilvy Social Spin @ London Eye, a VIP party on the London Eye as part of their premier sponsorship of Social Media Week London.

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The Future of Sharing #smwldn

Beyond will be developing a study for SMW that offers a unique & substantiated perspective on the changes that lie ahead for the nature of online sharing. This study will comprise a consumer survey about attitudes towards sharing currently & looking ahead, as well as the curation of perspectives from a variety of industry leaders on this topic.

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Date: 16 February 2012
Location: Design Council, UK

Social Media Week London 2012: Integrating Moderation, Insight and Engagement

This free social media management workshop is part of Social Media Week London 2012 @ Exmouth House Social #ExHoSo

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Date: 14 February 2012
Location: Exmouth House, UK

Corporate Digital Communities, Do They Work?

Through case studies, we intend to highlight the key ingredients to creating a successful online community and the key challenges companies face when designing appropriate community platforms.

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Date: 13 February 2012
Location: Cass Business School, UK

Reaching the 7 Billion: Using mobile to create global social engagement.

This session is about connecting the dots between feature phones, smartphones and social networks to uncover a path towards global connectivity

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Date: 15 February 2012
Location: Edelman Offices - Southside, UK

Roll up, roll up! Social Media Week Event Registration is now OPEN!

SMW 2012 Registration Open

FINALLY! The day has come!

Event registration has officially opened for Social Media Week 2012 - in London and globally! And boy, are we excited.

SMW London 2012 (Mon 13th - Fri 17th February) boasts a HUGE list of exciting events which focus on all sorts of social media ideas, issues, strategies, etc. 

So - what event/s are YOU going to sign up for?

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