social media

Afternoon Tea Camp

In true geek style and an excuse to get a bit social comes AfternoonTeaCamp. It’s on the weekend (this Sunday), in the afternoon at The Werks. The idea is that everyone brings something to share and that we can all enjoy each others company.

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Date: 13 July 2008
Location: The Werks, UK

Virtual Worlds Forum

Back for the second year, Virtual Worlds Forum Europe 2008 is produced by the Virtual Economic Forum, Europe’s leading virtual worlds media company. Three days of congress, expo and workshops covering entertainment, enterprise, community, education, marketing, regulation, and finance… plus lots more.

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Date: 6 October 2008
Location: The Bridge, UK

Tech Garage

TechGarage is the first edition of a big event entirely devoted to venture capital and networking. Start-ups, enterpreneurs, developers, bloggers, and techology lovers alike, will gather to present themselves, find funds and develop new ideas

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Date: 20 June 2008
Location: Luiss, IT

Visual Web Convention

The Visual Web Convention brings together 4 conferences all addressing the next-gen Web. You can book day passes or access-all-areas AAA VIP passes AND individual event passes on this site.

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Date: 9 July 2008
Location: RIBA, UK

Digital PR , Web 2.0 & Tameside as a Digital Destination

Tameside is maintaining its beacon role by bringing together key speakers to share their experiences with businesses acriss Tameside and surrounding areas.

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Date: 18 June 2008
Location: Stalybridge Civic Hall, UK

Festival of socially powered media in the post-broadcast era

Over the 2nd and 3rd of July the 2gether08 festival in London will look at how ideas and popular technology interact. The event is a forum that looks at improving our lives through digital media. Those presenting or developing ideas in the sessions at 2gether08 can take advantage of potential investment from 4IP’s £50 million fund.

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11 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Risk management and social media

Apparently, in 2007, 16% of companies saw confidential information divulged online, 1 in 10 saw financial information leaked and ¾ of companies disciplined employees for abuse of email. So how do you know if your employees aren't divulging company secrets online? Simple – you don’t.

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9 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Journalists tooling-up for the instant web

Has Video Killed the Blogging Star? This was the question posed by the 4 o’clock session at this week’s Social Media Influence conference in London.

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6 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

365 friends: It's the year of the geek

God bless my parents. Heaven knows how they coped. I was a right rotter in my teens. All loud music, piercings and dyed blacker than black hair. My music was their biggest bug bear. “Like a fire engine in a tumble dryer” was how my dad described the racket emanating from my pit.

Fast forward to today and the generation gap has slowly disappeared.

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6 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Channel 4 marries learning with social media


Channel 4’s promise? To strengthen their connection with young audiences by embracing mulitple platforms and devoting £6 million of their budget to higher risk projects.

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3 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

2gether08

Bringing together creatives, change-makers and innovators from a wide range of fields to explore collborative technologies and find out how we can use them to solve the greatest challenges facing society today...

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Date: 2 July 2008
Location: Rochelle School, UK

Measurement Camp V

Regular, free meet-up of web developers; buzz monitoring folk; social media planners; smart PR people and more to solve the question: how do we measure social media?

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Date: 6 August 2008
Location: The Coach and Horses, UK

Measurment Camp

An Opensource movement measuring social media. This measurement camp will be thinking along the lines of pretend campaigns (e.g what if TFL used Twitter for travel news) - and working out from there how that campaign would then be measured.

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Date: 4 June 2008
Location: Coach and Horses pub, UK