events

It's almost here, Social Media Week London is only a few days away!

To make sure you're completely in the know, we've pulled together daily event highlights so you know exactly where you should be next week.

The below highlights are for Tuesday 14th Feb, but you can also take a look through the full SMWLDN schedule and check out the events taking place at The SMWLDN Hub.

If you haven't already - make sure you're signed up!

It's less than a week until Social Media Week London returns, we hope you're looking forward to it as much as we are!

To make sure you're completely in the know, we've pulled together daily event highlights so you know exactly where you should be next week.

The below highlights are for Monday 13th Feb, but you can also take a look through the full SMWLDN schedule and check out the events taking place at The SMWLDN Hub.

If you haven't already - make sure you're signed up!

Here are the pick of some of our featured events which have just gone live. They are already making waves at this year's Social Media Week London, which is less than two weeks away! They are all hosted at this year's hub, the Design Council. Sign up now to secure your place.

Family Circles: Parents, Children and Marketers, Tuesday 14th February 

Seen through the prism of the family, this session will investigate the dynamics of the socially connected family unit and how marketers engage. Speakers include Jules Kendrick from Mumsnet and former Head of BBC Children's Interactive, Marc Goodchild. 

Inside the Firewall: The Social Business Revolution. Supported by Nokia, Friday 17th February 

How social media trends, disciplines and tactics are being used inside organisations to revolutionise internal communications, collaborative working, customer care, product development and building profitability. Confirmed speakers include, Head of Online at WWF UK, Adrian Cockle and Leading Consultant on Social Business, Euan Semple. 

We're delighted to annouce that since event registration opened last week on the 17th January there have been over five thousand unique attendees register for events globally in the twelve key cities taking part in this year's Social Media Week 2012 which focuses on Empowering Change through Collaboration.

Over two thousand attendees are registered for events in London alone. Which events are you coming to? Keep an eye out on the schedule of events as more are being added every day! 

Thinking of getting really involved in this year's Social Media Week and organising your own special event?

Now is your chance. You don't need to be a large company or an agency or even a professional event organiser. Anyone can submit a event for the week, all you need is our handy guide to event planning and some good ideas. 

Oh my, it's exactly six weeks today until Social Media Week opens. We're getting very excited with all the fab events being registered and will soon be announcing our partners and sponsors. 

Here are two key dates for your diary to make sure you can really get engaged in all the action. 

1. Five weeks left to submit your event, submissions close on the 6th February. Need some help? Here are all the tips you could ever need. 

2. One week until event registration opens! If you want to get ahead sign up now and you can look through the schedule of events and add them to your favourities. Event registration opens on the 17th January. 

We can't wait to see you all, keep an eye out on the blog or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Are you a self confessed social media junkie with an appetite for adventure? If so then the opportunity of a lifetime awaits you!

The London Social Media Week team have teamed up with our friends in Singapore to run a mini exchange trip in conjunction with Social Media Week.

The overall idea...one person, five days, Singapore. Uncover the power of social media and how it can be used for social good.

Chinwag Live returns next week, and we have a right treat in store for you. Not only do we have Facebook, Nando's, Conversocial, Marks & Spencer and Capgemini on the panel, we are very excited to announce that Robin Grant, Managing Director of We Are Social is joining us to complete the high profile line up.

The benefits of hosting and running an event are obvious. In one fail swoop, your influential speakers will draw in guests who could end up being potential partners, consumers or even investors.

Your event will be the toast of the digital town, elevating your brand in a dynamic way. The only drawback? The niggly fact that everybody wants a slice of the events pie. So what to do?

In such an overcrowded market, strategic planning and promotion can see your event being firmly pencilled into the diaries of those that matter. But navigating the choppy waters of promotions can be tricky for even the savviest of marketers, so we've come up with four easy ways to promote your event.

Building a collaborative event is not for the faint hearted. Many an event producer has run for the hills when faced with a large committee of partners let alone trying to lead a large team of stakeholders.

If, however, you are brave and follow a few guidelines the benefits of collaboration can be mind-blowing and much bigger than you could ever manage on your own.

Here is a guide based on my learnings directing Social Media Week (SMW) the London Games Fringe & Onemedia.  During SMW we had over 53 event partners, 50+ venues, 110 events and 40 experts on the advisory board. All of this was accomplished in under 16 weeks and here is how:

Not long now until a group of digital government and social innovation geeks pack their bags and head over to the US with FutureGov and the Digital Mission gang to learn how things are done on the other side of the pond – and hopefully show them a thing or two as well with the best of UK digital innovation. 

But before all of that, I thought I’d fill you in on a good few reasons why we thought a Digital Mission to DC would be such a good idea…