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Last Wednesday Chinwag and Our Social Times held the long awaited Facebook Marketing Conference. The day was packed full with speakers, case studies, stats and quotes, our favourite still being from Tom from We Are Social, asking "are you a dipper or a smotherer" (in reference to Heinz ketchup that is).

The day was a huge success with over 120 people through the door, 22 speakers and a twitter hashtag that not only trended during the day but reached over 76,818 people (baring in mind we ended up with two hashtags being used #fbmk12 and #fbkm12)!

For those of you that could not attend the conference, we've done a recap of the event highlights with links to some of the presentations. It'll almost be as if you were there... just without the free chocolate (thanks again Cadburys Dairy Milk).

This Tuesday (17th July) we held our second Facebook Marketing Bootcamp at We Are What We Do in London. With Facebook trainer, Tania Jackson of Red Idea on hand, the day-long workshop aims to provide a hands-on and more personalised approach where attendees can learn what they can do to improve their techniques and strategies and how to do it.

We thought we'd share just a few things we learnt from Tuesday's Bootcamp.

The Facebook Marketing Conference (Weds 18th Jul) is only a week away and to give you a sneak peek into some of the insight that'll be shared, we've managed to grab a few minutes with some of the speakers.

Up first is Nils Mork-Ulnes, Head of Analytics at Beyond.

What better way to begin our Facebook Marketing Conference next week (Weds 18th July) than with Facebook themselves?!

After some essential tea & coffee and a short welcome, we'll kick things off with a keynote from Andy Pang, Measurement Solutions Group Lead from Facebook.

You'll then get to hear about BBC Worldwide, Cadbury Dairy Milk / Kraft Foods, Yorkshire Tea, Manchester City FC, TBG Digital, Beyond, Markettiers4DC, Edelman, GlobalWebIndex and more! The full programme is below...

In this guest post, Martin Belam, the man behind The Guardian Facebook App, explains the thinking behind the app and where he sees it leading both media companies and brands.

Last September, Facebook promised to forever change the face of sharing on the web, with the launch of new features of the Open Graph allowing apps to automatically share a users actions. Reception, it would be fair to say, was mixed. For publishers it presented an opportunity to vastly increase traffic and reach, whilst for some people it “ruined” sharing. Nine months on, what does the picture look like?

With two weeks left to go 'til Facebook Marketing Conference (18th Jul, ICO Conference Centre, London) we're very pleased to announce more amazing speakers joining our line-up from the likes of Cadbury Dairy Milk, Manchester City FC, TBG Digital, GlobalWebIndex and We Are Social.

That's in addition to our already super line-up: we'll be hearing from Nokia, BBC Worldwide, Yorkshire Tea and more! Find out more about our new speakers below.

There are a few tickets remaining, which you can get your hands on for only £145 + VAT. Check out the Facebook Marketing Bootcamp (17th July) for hands on training the day before the conference and if you fancy coming along to both the Facebook Marketing Bootcamp and Conference, grab a combo ticket for just £395 + VAT. Book your place now!