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IMPROVING REALITY 2012

Improving Reality 2012 is a half-day conference which playfully and critically looks at how designers, artists, and makers are using various technologies to shift our perceptions of reality.

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Date: 6 September 2012
Location: Pavilion Theatre, UK

Social Media for Solicitors

1-day training seminar showing you how to promote your firm on social media and how to develop a strategy will attract new clients. This hands-on workshop will show you how to set up and use the main social media tools, focusing on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Date: 10 September 2012
Location: Avanta, UK

Social Media for Independent Schools

1-day training seminar showing you how to promote your school on social media and how to develop a strategy will attract new pupils as well as engage with the existing student body and parents. This hands-on workshop will show you how to set up and use the main social media tools, focusing on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Date: 18 October 2012
Location: Avanta, UK

Communications Managers’ Workshop

Charity communications managers face a unique set of challenges and this workshop is designed to join your peers and discuss solutions to the big challenges comms managers face, share best practice and refresh your skills. The agenda is based on what real communications managers have told us they are facing.

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Date: 26 September 2012
Location: London, UK

Fancy Yourself as an Olympic Reporter? Apply to be a #CitizenCurator & Share your Experiences

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University of Westminster and Museum of London are on the hunt for 12 #citizencurators to record life in London during the Games.

As everyone knows, the great moments of the Olympics will be photographed & written about, with opinions of organisors, commentators and celebrities in the media - but what about the experience of the humble London resident?

That's where the #citizencurators come in! #Citizencurators is a research project developed by the University of Westminster for the Museum of London that explores what it is like to live in London during the Olympic fortnight (July 27 – August 12).

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a4uexpo London 2012

Two day performance marketing conference and exhibition covering the most current industry topics and including networking, exhibition hall, content-drive agenda and additional features.

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Date: 16 October 2012
Location: Hilton London Metropole, UK

[Infographic] Euro 2012 - Spain Victorious (on Twitter too!)

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As you know, here at Chinwag, we love a good infographic. And we've all noticed how social media - particularly Twitter - is changing the way we watch, engage and interact with sports.

Euro 2012 set a new Twitter record, with 15,358 tweets per second during the Spain vs Italy final, as we know, Spain won - but it appears that they also won in terms of tweetage (that's a word in the Chinwag dictionary), as shown by the below infographic put together by sports website, thescore.com with Twitter data from Sysomos.

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Propaganda Factory 2012

C21’s third Propaganda Factory takes place on July 4 at BAFTA in London, a unique one-day interactive networking event designed to provide an expert view on how to market, PR and build content brands in the digital age.

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Date: 4 July 2012
Location: BAFTA, UK

Propaganda Factory 2012

C21’s third Propaganda Factory takes place on July 4 at BAFTA in London, a unique one-day interactive networking event designed to provide an expert view on how to market, PR and build content brands in the digital age

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Date: 4 July 2012
Location: BAFTA, UK

ITU Telecom Young Innovators Competition

Open to 18-25 year olds worldwide, the Young Innovators Competition calls for projects/concepts which engage the power of ICTs to meet real-world developmental challenges

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Date: 21 June 2012
Location: ITU Telecom World Dubai, AE

The Social Customer and Social Loyalty

With the rise of the social customer we examine the nature of them. Are they as loyal as we think they are?

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Date: 3 July 2012
Location: The Innovation Warehouse, UK

Brighton Digital Marketing Festival

The BDMF featured as a key marketing event of the month long Brighton Digital Festival, celebrating digital culture and arts throughout the city. 2011’s Pure360 event was so successful that 2012 will see the event extended to run for two days and double in size.

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Date: 12 September 2012
Location: Various venues starting at The Old Courtroom, UK

Simon Says: Hashtag Pages, the (much needed) love child of Facebook & Google News

I’ve not been this excited in ages. After a while you see a lot of the same stuff getting repeated in social media. Rarely do you see a useful innovative product that people would actually use that benefits both brands and consumers.

Hashtag Pages does exactly what it says on the tin. They are a unique page designed to pull together all the media and interesting commentary around a certain hashtag. The first people to take advantage of this is #NASCAR.

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GameHorizon Conference

Entertainment, Games and Technology.

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Date: 26 June 2012
Location: The Sage Gateshead, UK

Facebook Marketing Bootcamp 2012

The Facebook Marketing Bootcamp is a chance to roll-up-your-sleeves and get stuck in to marketing using Facebook's array of tools. Learn from one of the industry's leading social media trainers, Lauren Fisher of Simply Zesty.

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Date: 17 July 2012
Location: WeAreWhatWeDo, UK