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July 17th is an exciting day for us here at Social Media Week. It marks CROWDFUNDx, which will feature our challenge event with a one-day conference focused on crowdfunding for businesses, produced by Crowdcentric — and we want you to join us! Space will be limited; so click here to get your tickets for the…
Each time we host Social Media Week I am shocked. I don’t know why- this is the sixth time we’ve done it, but when I take the time to go through the entire global schedule I am blown away by the extraordinary level of depth and diversity of the programming. With almost 1,000 events scheduled…
Social media is shrinking our world. Information that was once unattainable is now easily accessible with the click of a button. At any time, from most anywhere, business can be conducted, emails can be sent, long-distance friendships can be maintained. Our lives are intertwined like never before. The spread of new knowledge has fostered an…
The world has changed. Through globalization and technology, the pace at which change is happening is only accelerating. So the big question becomes how do you adapt to this? Reid Hoffman shares his thoughts on living your life as an entrepreneur. Watch his interview from SMW12 below, and then see our recap with our projections…
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. Even if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange ends up behind bars and has his website taken down, others will be happy to take…
Brought to you by MWW GROUP In 2012, social media success will depend on building and empowering your community and giving back. Not too long ago, the use of social media by corporations was considered a novelty. Visionaries such as Morgan Johnston at JetBlue and Frank Eliason, then of Comcast, were among the…
Guest Author: Jack Mason is a team member of IBM Strategic Programs Team. You can follow him on Twitter at @IBMSocBiz and @JackMason. A team of IBMers and Social Media Week are working together on a kind of grassroots, crowdsourced research. Share your views on Social Commerce and help us scan and analyze the collective…
Should employers monitor social media in HR practices? Last week we debated just how far employers can and should go in monitoring employees’, and potential employees’, behavior during our #JobDebate on Twitter. We began the debate by discussing a recent incident in which a teacher in Florida was suspended for posting anti-gay remarks on his…