As you all know Social Media Week is just under four weeks away and we’re incredibly excited to see the depth and diversity of each cities program of events–and best yet, there are still many opportunities for you and your brand to get involved.
The teams in LA, Milan, Bogotá, Buenos Aires and Mexico City are pulling together a global program consisting of more than 200 events, covering industry sectors such as politics, publishing, film, education, music and also topics such as the rise location based services, social media monitoring and metrics and social graph optimization.
This year the conference is supported by some of the world’s largest media companies, including the New York Times, The Financial Times, Fox Latin-America and El Tiempo. Also, we are delighted to be working with the US State Department on a very unique event that will be live streamed around the world, which aims to celebrate US technology innovation.
To fulfill our goal, which is to connect people globally around emerging trends in social and mobile media, we are looking to provide a number of unique services, which we are looking for brands to support. If your brand or perhaps one of your clients is interested in supporting any of the following initiatives, we would love to hear from you:
- Live streaming: We have secured a company to be announced soon as our global streaming partner, but we are looking for a brand to be the global sponsor of our live streamed events, which will be watched by more than 50,000 people in 80 different countries.
- Location Services: We are looking to launch a real-time application that allows visitors to our site to see who is checking in to Social Media Week events, where they are on a map and what the primary hot spots in any given city are. We are looking for a brand to support this application.
- WiFi & Mobile Connectivity: Providing WiFi is always a challenge, especially given the distributed nature of the conference. We would love to be able to provide mobile hotspots at multiple venues throughout the participating cities.
- Real-time Conversation: With literally thousands participating to help make Social Media Week a success, the level of real-time communication and collaboration is incredible. We will be building out an solution that aggregates everything into one application and delivers the real-time feed in a compelling and visually interesting way. This application could be branded by one of your organization or one you know.
- Social Scheduling: Over the coming weeks, tens of thousands of people will be interacting with our social scheduling tool as they plan their personal program. The scheduling tools, run by our partner SCHED*, receive a huge level of traffic and can be branded in a number of different ways. We are also considering launching a iPhone version of the schedule, which can also be branded.
- Translation: Social Media Week will be hosted in Italian, English and Spanish languages. We are building out a number of tools to help share as much of the content as possible in as many languages as possible. We would love to do more and finding a way to align a brand with this opportunity would be terrific.
As you can see we have some amazing ways for brands to play a vital role in helping to support Social Media Week’s mission of connecting people globally around emerging trends in social and mobile media.
If your brand or one you know might be interested in discussing any of these opportunities, or any of our other partnership packages, please don’t hesitate to let us know. You can get involved with Social Media Week on a global level by going here, or by contacting me, Ben Scheim, at ben@crowdcentric.net!
