social media

Social Networking Conference

The Social Networking Conference are the industry's largest events that covers business management for the Social Networking and Internet Personals industry. The next event will be held on September 22 - 23, 2008 at the Millennium Gloucester Conference Center in London, United Kingdom.

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Date: 22 September 2008
Location: Millenium Glouchester Hotel and Kensington Conference Centre, UK

Facebook reckoning part 3: horizontal versus vertical

What’s better for advertisers - a blanket social network campaign with a high click-through rate or targeting your campaign to a niche, vertical social network?

Vertical networks are usually organised around a specific interest or theme. They’re usually either fan sites, are age/interest specific or for professional purposes.

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15 August 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Facebook reckoning Part 2: the revenue race

Facebook are stuck between a rock and a hard place. After you’ve faffed about with the applications, added your photos and replied to those friend requests how do you keep the users hooked?

For the networks, it’s a tricky balancing act to achieve, you’ve gotta keep the cash rolling in and keep the user happy at the same time.

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13 August 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Facebook reckoning Part 1: global expansion route

In the UK it’s more common today to have a Facebook application than it is to have a dog. But it’s into the global arena that its expansion plans have now moved.

With 65 billion page views per month, on average people spend 20 minutes a day on the site, plus it’s the number one photo-sharing site on the web.

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11 August 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Shoreditch Grand Prix

On Sunday 31st August 2008, heroes, helmets and hearts will do battle for the greatest sporting prize in the UK... to be the winner of the Shoreditch Grand Prix. It's a Grand Prix on kiddies fun tricycles and tractors

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Date: 31 August 2008
Location: Shoreditch, UK

Effective Project Management Using a Wiki

This workshop on Project Management Using a Wiki will show you how to organize your project on a wik, help your team make the change from trading emails and attachments to gathering, building, and editing information on the wiki.

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Date: 4 September 2008
Location: The Werks, UK

Getting Social with your Brand and Content

Date: 
1 Oct 2008 - 09:00 - 2 Oct 2008 - 17:00
Event Website: 
http://01zero-one.com/Social_Brand.htm
Venue
London

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24 July 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Oxford Geek Night no. 8

Oxford Geek Night is a way for local web developers, designers, programmers, neophiles or geeks of any other stripe to get together, chat, drink and listen to talks on new technologies and innovations.

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Date: 27 August 2008
Location: Jericho Tavern, UK

Geek up Sheffield

GeekUp Sheffield takes place on the first Wednesday of every month. It's a grass-roots knowledge sharing and networking social for folks involved or interested in all forms of technology and creative media.

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Date: 6 August 2008
Location: Showroom Cafe Bar, UK

Open Music Media Meet no.2

The OpenMusicMedia Meet is a group that gets together regularly in London to discuss, explore and shape the future of digital music and media. The format is open and everyone is invited.

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Date: 30 July 2008
Location: William IV Pub, UK

Women in Games Conference

The Women In Games conference encourages research and seeks to promote the careers of women within the games industry. Making the career path attractive from a female perspectie doesn't just make good business sense, it's vital both commercially and artistically.

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Date: 10 September 2008
Location: Warwick University, UK

The British predilection for Twitter

A survey into social networks released in the last week by Hitwise.com, the online marketing trends and research outfit, found marked differences between how social networks are used here and in the US. Most surprising of all is the accelerated growth of Twitter over the last year and its predicted growth for the coming year.

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23 July 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

InterTent 08

A weekend of camping and web talk.  InterTent 08 is all about Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Utility Computing, Portability, Fabrication, Cybernets, Social Media and anything else in between. Anybody can come to talk and interact.    

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Date: 16 August 2008
Location: Lee Valley Campsite, UK

Media@lse Fifth Anniversary Conference

Media@lse invites critical thinking about how the media and communications environment is impacted in shaping our perceptions of the human condition and thus, increasingly, mediating human values, actions and social relations.   20of%20the%20

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Date: 21 September 2008
Location: London School of Economics, UK