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SoCon2011 - Brand Journeys In Social Media

SoCon2011 - Brand Journeys In Social Media - Wherever you are in your social media journey, SoCon2011 will provide you with ideas, answers and insights to incorporate into your marketing strategy. SoCon2011 presents exceptional value for money and boasts a fantastic line up of speakers.

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Date: 20 October 2011
Location: ICO conference centre, London, UK

Competition: Win Green Data Centre and Cloud Control Conference Tickets

Green Data Center

The Green Data Centre and Cloud Control Conference (25th - 27th October) will foster an educational environment that aims to allow you to analyse new techniques that will not only help our environment, but also save your organisation time and money.

We're delighted that organisers, GSMI, have offered 2 lucky Chinwaggers the chance to win a free conference ticket worth up to £1290.00.

Entering the competition could not be easier, simply fill in the form below by Tuesday 18th October and a ticket could be yours.

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8 August 2011 by Lauren Cotton

Mining Google Trends: Facebook Dominant in Search, Duking It Out With Twitter in News

Google Trends: blog, twitter, msn messenger, email, newspaper

Using Google Trends and the popularity of search terms as a guide to media consumption certainly isn't bulletproof, but reading Matthew Slight's post about the shift in media consumption inspired a spot of digging. And boy, is Facebook having an impact on search terms - just look at the graph above.

I can't work out whether it must be slightly galling for Google search execs to watch one of their main rivals rocket in popularity, or are they rubbing their hands with glee at all the data gathered about user's interaction with Facebook?

Whilst Facebook and Twitter are both ramping up their sales functions in the UK, sheer numbers play a factor, but influence will play a critical factor in grabbing those marketing dollars.

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7 August 2011 by Sam Michel

Conversion Conference

A conference is dedicated to anyone wanting to achieve maximum ROI from their online campaigns.

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Date: 30 November 2011
Location: Business Design Centre, UK

Tag Clouds on Steriods: New Techniques for Visualising Social and Mass Media Big Data [video]

Screenshot from Deb Roy's TED Talk: Birth of a Word

I love me a Wordle. If you're the same and you're interested in some ground-breaking techniques to visualise big data in real-time this video is worth a watch.

Deb Roy's research starts with an experiment to parse 90,000 hours of video to chart his infant son's discovery of language through to analysis of online comments, sentiment and social connections during President Obama's State of the Union address.

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6 August 2011 by Sam Michel

Sheffield Wired City Reconnected Event – Collaborations over a cold beer!!!

First Collaborative Networking event organised by WCR for Digital, Creative and ICT businesses in the South Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and Derbyshire area.

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Date: 5 October 2011
Location: The Circle, UK

Next Manchester Wired City Reconnected Event – Collaborations over a cold beer!!!

Manchester Wired City Reconnected is a collaborative networking for Digital, Creative and ICT business owners / managers and freelancers

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Date: 22 September 2011
Location: The Cafe, Enterprise House, UK

Webcast - Analysing who and where your social audience are

IAS B2B Marketing will share the social media marketing processes they use for TalkTalk Business and Siemens and show you how to find, target, manage and ultimately convert your social media audience.

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Date: 25 August 2011
Location: online http://www.b2bmarketing.net/events/webcast-analysing-who-and-where-your-social-audience-are, UK

In this emerging multi-screen world who controls who?

We face new issues now that TV, Mobile, Tablet, PC, notebook screens are in the home, car, elevator and plane: Who has our attention and for how long? What screen is prime and what is the slave? Are all screens just companions? Who wants control you and you experience? Should control be from your device or in the cloud?

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Date: 15 September 2011
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

Central Business Surgery - Drop in support for start-ups and SME's across London

Central Business Surgery is a free drop-in service which offers support to any and all small businesses. Drawing on the business expertise of Central’s members; from IT support to social media advice, tips on negotiation to PR ideas, Central Business Surgery aims to create a monthly, reliable business service for SME’s across London.

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Date: 25 August 2011
Location: Central, UK

Like Minds 2011

The UK's thought leading conference, over 3 days in the South West of England, on all things to do with Innovation+Opportunity.

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Date: 19 October 2011
Location: Exeter Conference Centre, UK

Chinwag Announces Insight Conference: Facebook Marketing. Speakers Wanted.

Facebook by Franco Bouly

Seven hundred million is a very big number. And with Facebook's big number comes big opportunities for branding, marketing, commerce, games, analytics and insight.

Following on from the success of Social Media Week London, Chinwag is launching "Chinwag Insight: Facebook Marketing", a brand new full day conference exploring how to harness the 700m strong userbase to create a positive impact on their business. 

The event scheduled for early Autumn will take place in central London for senior marketers from agencies, brands and media owners and is the first event (we can find) focusing solely on Facebook as a marketing platform.

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26 July 2011 by Sam Michel

Scots in Digital & Advertising Summer Drinks

Given Nation1 started life in Glasgow so sunshine is not something we know much about. But us Scots do know how to party. To celebrate Nation1's second summer in London we are teaming up withMarketing Industry Network (MIN) and fellow Scot and agency man Harry Fowler to get plastered Scottish style, in London.

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Date: 4 August 2011
Location: The Light Bar, Shoreditch, UK

In The Brain of Uncle Bob Martin: Why can't anyone get Web architecture right?

For years and years top designers and experienced architects have been advising people to structure their systems using decoupling, abstraction, and design principles. Yet every new web framework that comes out seems to ignore these principles, and drives web developers to make the same messes as before!

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Date: 28 November 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

4th Cloud Computing World Forum

The leading conference and trade show for the Enterprise IT industry.

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Date: 12 June 2012
Location: Earls Court, Brompton Hall, Level 1, IN