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Chinwag Insight: Psychology of Online Influence Presentation Slides Are Now Live #ChinwagPsych

Psychology of Online Influence Brochure
Thank you to all that attended the long awaited Chinwag Insight: Psychology of Online Influence conference yesterday.

The afternoon was jam-packed with brain-busting insight from some of the leading experts from both academic and marketing worlds, bringing together theory and practice to build on the debate from the first event that took place during Social Media Week London in February.

Amongst the sea of information, here's a few of our favourite pointers on tackling online influence:

  • 1. Know your target, 2. Communicate persuasively, 3. Sell with integrity.
  • Relate to what bonds people and drives them to share: shared history, attitudes, society and culture.
  • Identify the 5 types of influencers: idea starters, amplifiers, curators, commentators and viewers
  • Provide 'social validation': ratings, reviews and pictures bump up effectiveness by 20%

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DSL12 - Data Science Hackathon

On the 28th April for the first ever 24-hour global data science hackathon will take place bringing Data Scientists around the world together to try and improve improve the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index.

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Date: 28 April 2012
Location: Online, anywhere!, UK

Big Data Week London - Community Meetup Featuring Bit.ly Chief Scientist & Co-Founder Apache Hadoop

Do you want to meet other passionate people about Big Data in a beautiful London location and take part in a debate with some of the brightest minds on the planet? Featured Hilary Mason, Bit.ly Chief Scientist, Doug Cutting, Apache Hadoop Co-founder with drinks & nibbles from Oracle.

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Date: 24 April 2012
Location: Lancaster London Hotel, UK

Big Data Week

Big Data Week is one of the world’s most unique global platforms, offering a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world across not only technology but also the commercial use cases for Big Data.

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Date: 23 April 2012
Location: Globally, UK

Big Data Week

Big Data Week is one of the world’s most unique global platforms, offering a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world across not only technology but also the commercial use cases for Big Data.

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Date: 23 April 2012
Location: London, UK

Londata II: Taming the firehose - putting data to work in social media

We're tying in with our friends at Social Media Week for Londata II, to look at the opportunities presented by the vast volumes of social media data being generated every day. We have three great companies speaking: SoDash, Level Business and Polecat

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Date: 16 February 2012
Location: Media Science, UK

PHP UK Conference 2012

PHP UK Conference 2012 is PHP London's seventh annual conference, building on the success of previous events by expanding to a double-day event, to accommodate the continual growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry.

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Date: 23 February 2012
Location: Business Design Centre, UK

CloudCamp London - Big Data Special

CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions.

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Date: 25 January 2011
Location: The Crypt , St James Church, UK

Londata: Putting data to work - Launch Event

Londata is the event for people doing interesting things with data. It's particularly for people who are interested in how to put data to work, creating commercial and/or social value as you go.

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Date: 23 November 2011
Location: Media Science, UK

Digital Footprint Summit: Insights from the Screenagers

Irrespective of what we call them the Screenagers, Generation Y, millennials, digital natives or the Facebook generation; we all agree that they are driving new digital services. Often, in a discussion of next generation services and privacy their voice is ignored. Therefore, we ask: Should we teach the Screenagers or should we learn from them.

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Date: 3 November 2011
Location: innovation warehouse, UK

MongoDB User Group : Scaling with MongoDB

Alvin Richards discusses Schema Design, Replication & Sharding and how they affect building a scalable system with MongoDB.

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Date: 7 September 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Tom Wilkie on "Castle: Re-inventing storage for Big Data"

In this talk, Tom Wilkie looks at Castle -- the core of the Acunu Data Platform, delivering up to 100x higher performance for applications written for Cassandra and other tools.

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Date: 27 September 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Tag Clouds on Steriods: New Techniques for Visualising Social and Mass Media Big Data [video]

Screenshot from Deb Roy's TED Talk: Birth of a Word

I love me a Wordle. If you're the same and you're interested in some ground-breaking techniques to visualise big data in real-time this video is worth a watch.

Deb Roy's research starts with an experiment to parse 90,000 hours of video to chart his infant son's discovery of language through to analysis of online comments, sentiment and social connections during President Obama's State of the Union address.

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Ian Robinson and Jim Webber's Neo4j Tutorial

Neo4j experts and Neo4j user group organisers, Ian Robinson and Jim Webber, bring their intensive two-day Neo4j tutorial to Skills Matter. Delivered this November by Jim Webber, the Neo4J tutorial provides a mixture of theory and hands-on practical sessions to demonstrate the capabilities of graph data and the Neo4j database.

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Date: 3 November 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK