Preparations for the impending mission to South by South West interactive (SXSWi) are in their final stages. Chinwag Towers is littered with all manner of goodies ready for the trip to Austin.
Hermione Way and her crew at Techfluff.tv, with a helping hand from the folks at Viadeo, have put together a trailer for the Digital Mission to SXSWi, giving a flavour of the
companies attending, and capturing the pace of what awaits them...with
a dollop of tongue-in-cheek for good measure.
Check out 'Mission Possible'...
I've noticed a steady increase in the number of roles on Chinwag Jobs that mention "social media" or "community" in the title. But what's it like to do the job? In this guest post, Rebecca Jesson, Social Media Manager at Sheffield-based agency, Quba shares her day...
One of the questions I get asked frequently is “What exactly does a Social Media Manager do?” As Kat French
so rightly puts it “…because apparently, people think social media
managers spend all day on Twitter/Facebook collecting followers and
congratulating each other on getting paid to spend all day on
Twitter/Facebook”. Her “day in the life of…” post covers a lot of the
things I do all day, but I wanted to write one of my own. So here it
goes...
What could be a finer idea for a Thursday
evening than to make some new friends whilst chewing the fat over the
some of the finest ales London’s west end has to offer?
Chinwag and Chinwag Jobs are proud to
be supporting the second Ale 2.0 (see below) meet up which is being held tonight
at a charming little pub called The
Cross Keys near Covent Garden.
The agenda for Ale
2.0 is nice and easy; there
is no agenda, it’s simply a monthly meet up for all ye digital
marketing folk to discus the finer points of the industry whilst enjoying
a pint of the good stuff, there’s no name badges, no boring presentations
and more importantly no egos.
In spite of job prospects for graduates looking bleak, there appears to be lots of opportunities in the digital sector to score some fantastic internship opportunities.
Roll up, roll up, we'll be publishing the list of programmes at the end
of this week...if you'd like to include your company's
programme/requirements, fill out the simple form and yes, it's all free, just something we're trying out.
It might sound like a slightly odd mixture, but the combination of digital futurology, a chance to hear Wired UK's, David Rowan whilst chowing down on a cream tea, sounds like a rather ideal Friday afternoon.
Organised by the (prepare for your afternoon tongue-twister), Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network, or (thankfully) KTN, who have already run a major nationwide survey and carried out interviews with leading figures as well as workshops and networking events, Digital Lounges, nationwide.
eBay and Amazon may be the twin giants of online shopping but there's still plenty of space for specialist retailers with strong communities of buyers.
Meet Martingale, an alumni of the Digital Mission
to NYC 2009. They’re helping to transform the world of buying classic toys by making
things much more socially interactive.
Are you currently freelancing to pay the bills? It's great working in your pyjamas but are you running low on office banter? Fed up with talking to the wall?
A new digital freelance space has opened up in the heart of Shoreditch, Central London, and it's cheap, cheap like the proverbial budgie.
Last week, a student on the hunt for work experience, posted to Chinwag's uk-design email discussion list:
"I am looking to do a web dev / usability / UX type internship but the results of my search thus far have been disappointing. Most of the places I have been in touch with seem to want a general office bod who will do menial tasks for free under the guise of "work experience". I'm aware that most of these positions are unpaid, and I'm happy to do that, as long as I'm learning something along the way.
Fortunately, the good folks on the uk-design list responded en masse and we later heard that she'd found a suitable spot in under 24 hours. What followed, was a flurry of firms asking for interns.
We're big fans of intern programmes at Chinwag and have had a few successful candidates pass through Chinwag Towers. Seeing such a strong interest, we've decided to gather the information together, and summarise in a blog post, or something more industrial, if necessary.
If your firm, or you know people looking for real interns and not just office juniors, please do get them to fill out the form below.
There's some exciting positions that have been added already from the likes of Pharmiweb and Adidas, so add yours. We'll leave the form open for a few days.
London’s
Business Community Connects for Social Media Week 2010
PRESS
RELEASE: London, UK, Thursday 28th January 2010
A diverse range of events, covering everything from music, property, politics
and charity through to recruitment, will be held next week from 1st
to 5th February for Social Media Week London. A global initiative
that sees simultaneous activity in New
York, Berlin, Toronto, San Francisco, and Sao Paulo, Social
Media Week aims to identify and advance social media practices and policy in
the corporate, public and non-profit sectors.
Organised
in London by Chinwag, the UK digital community, Social Media Week has drawn the
support of industry bodies such as the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB UK) and
British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) and generous support from sponsors including Meebo &
icrossing and a wide range of companies which are organising events as part of
the schedule.
Over 20 debates, panel discussions, presentations and socials are
running over the course of the week, many of which are free to attend, bringing
together experts in social media strategy and practice with those interested in
or already deploying these new communication channels in different business
sectors.
Update: Meet Jemima at Monkeys Tweetup, part of Social Media Week London.
Two years and countless coffees later Jemima Gibbons', Monkeys with Typewriters: The Myths and Realities of Social Media goes far in debunking the belief that social media is a bad influence in today's modern office; a mere distracter from the real work.
We got in touch with the lovely Jemima to find out how businesses will be incorporating social media in
2010.
The book gets to grips with social media's ability to democratise, errode value chains and remove restrictions on never-questioned-before codes of conduct. In the process it outlines a practical framework for happier, more productive working environments.
