socialmedia

We are looking to work with partners to attract 40 -50 business owners and freelancers from the Digital, Creative and ICT businesses. WCR events seek to attract delegates that can make decisions and explore business collaborations.

A panel of graduate students in the Masters of Digital Marketing Program will be presenting perspectives from their local communities around the globe on how social media in their country has been affected by those issues or how those themes have changed the social media landscape.

From bribing bloggers to befriending your toothpaste on Facebook – is Social Media the place for brands?

In this social media lab, you’ll get your chance to soak up some inspiring stories about starting a business, working for a cause, doing good or turning an idea into a successful career… all with the help of a little social media (of course).

Online freedom is a hot topic: from individual users, to the corporate world, to governments and lawmakers the challenges are coming thick and fast. This global keynote interview features Mark Stephens CBE, one of the UK’s leading legal minds, a veteran of Wikileaks & Hackgate, reknowned for his take on global freedom of speech and censorship.

It’s Valentine’s day and the billions of people using social media will be connecting, friending, ‘booking, liking, plusing, klouting, IMing more than ever before. How our relationships and our affections are being moulded by the technology? Join our expert panel to find out more...

Learn how to to socially measure your way to success with Jacqui Taylor, founder and CEO of FlyingBinary. Jacqui is also Director of Communications for the Cloud Security Alliance UK and Ireland, and a Tech City Mentor.

Schedule: 10:30 Arrive 11:00 Start 12:45 Lunch 13:45 Further discussions 14:15 Drinks and Networking

Revenue Performance Management, or RPM, is a bold new strategy for managing a company's interactions with buyers through the entire buying cycle that enables predictable, rapid and profi table revenue growth.

Join us for an enlightening, interactive debate with a mixture of journalists and social media fanatics to explore how twitter is changing the news industry, how journalists use social media to connect to the story and how collaborative reporting is leading to activism and change.

Warren Knight, Social Commerce expert, will be sharing how to drive traffic to your online store with a multi-channel experience. Learn how to optimise your online store using the latest social commerce tools and design whilst devising a monthly content marketing strategy that consumers will fall in-love with.

Getting it right on the social web isn’t easy. While brands and agencies have more platform and service options these days they also have to face the realities of a crowded social marketplace and increasingly hostile natives. So how does a brand go social when the social web just wants the brands to go home?

What is it about some businesses that succeed in creating more business via social media than others? Matt Hodkinson presents the 7 Secrets … the elements of a social business that ensure growth, improved business acquisition, and retention, irrespective of size.