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Engaging the Population of a City to Reinvent Itself, Part Two
Guest Post By Don Tapscott, Curator Social Media Week. As Global Curator, Don Tapscott is leading a series of discussion on our global theme of Empowering Change Through Collaboration. Read previous discussions here. In my previous post I discussed the ambitious initiative by the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, Columbia to resuscitate citizen involvement by getting residents…
This is a guest post from Rodrigo Salazar from SMW Bogotá. Last year’s Social Media Week was crazy in Bogotá. The event was well received by the audience and huge anticipation was created around the speaker’s roster. Our social networks were full of interactions with assistants, speakers, brands, sponsors and people that were interested in…
Last September, we were blown away by the creativity that came from our team in Bogota. Producing great videos, pulling in heavy hitting speakers like Peter Shankman and coming up with unique ways to engage the SMW community- all are things we love seeing come from a SMW host city. So, when we launched Instagram…
In less than 3 weeks on May 2, you’ll know the the full line up of cities for September’s Social Media Week, but for now, we want to welcome back some cities are returning and let you know about one very exciting change. September’s Returning Cities Berlin, hosted by DeskWanted Bogota, hosted by Zemoga Chicago,…
During the second week of July, Bogota became a trending topic in social media in Colombia; and it was not something that happened by chance. A whole movement was set in order to create a different view of the city. Technology has almost deleted the gap between massive media and common citizens who have decided…
A Look Through Social Media at Our Host Cities: Bogotá
Hello again fellow social media-ites. Sheldon from Sysomos social media monitoring and analytics here again to with another look at one of our host cities for the quickly approaching Social Media Week. This time we’re taking a trip back to South America to take a peak inside the social media world of Bogotá, Colombia. Using Sysomos…
Following the success of our February 2011 events, we are delighted to announce the dates for the year’s second edition of Social Media Week, scheduled to take place this September 19-23, 2011. The next iteration will again span the globe, with simultaneous events in cities all over the world. Since February, the team have been…
La Casa Editorial El Tiempo se ha sumado como Media Partner al evento que se realizará en Bogotá del 20 al 24 de septiembre, simultáneamente con Buenos Aires, Ciudad de México, Milán, y Los Angeles. Participarán en un panel con otros importantes medios, así como prestarán sus instalaciones para la realización del último día de…
This is the second in a series of posts zoning in on the various cities of Social Media Week September 2010 and taking a look at the exciting things going on there. Following up on the release of its schedule yesterday, here are some updates what’s happening during Social Media Week in Bogotá this September 20 to…
First it was Los Angeles last week, and then Milan and Buenos Aires yesterday. Now we are pleased to release the schedules from Mexico City and Bogotá for Social Media Week this September 20-24. You can view the Mexico City and Bogotá schedules by going to to their city pages and navigating to the schedule tabs,…