Social Media Week Event Schedule
With 95 events in 40 venues across the city and more than 3,500 unique participants, Social Media Week Chicago 2012 was a huge success. Check out this highlight video for key learnings from speakers including Bridgette Sexton, Google; Matt Maloney, GrubHub; Erik Qualman, “Socialnomics”; and Logan LaHive, Belly. What was your favorite event from…
Content is the driving force behind everything we do. Without good content, why communicate? Leading professionals in the communications industry discussed creating “Smart, Sexy Content” as part of Social Media Week Chicago. Zócalo Group’s EVP of Strategic Planning Emily Bader moderated the panel, which included Barbara Liss, Director of Digital and Social Media at Quaker Oats; Joseph Drambarean, Mobile Strategist at Punchkick…
Social Media Week comes back to the Windy City for its second year, and topping off the week filled with sessions, panels, speakers and activities will be the Official Opening Night Party, hosted by Rockit Ranch Productions and CEO Billy Dec. In its second year, the Opening Night Party will be held at Rockit Bar…
Registration for Social Media Week Chicago 2012 opened today at 9 a.m. central time. Head over to the schedule page to check out the fantastic event lineup and sign up. All events are free to attend and open to the public. As space is limited, we ask that you please register only for those events…
Moderated by Jimmy Greenfield of Chicago Now, a Tribune-owned network of local bloggers, this panel featured four bloggers who spoke offline about the best ways to write, edit, and publish online. Kelly Ryan O’Brien of fashion blog Idols and Egos, Nikki Knepper of parenting blog Moms Who Drink and Swear, Julie DiCaro of sports blog A League of Her…
As we wind down what has been an incredibly cool experience with Social Media Week Chicago, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about what some of us have learned this week. If you go on #SMWChicago’s Facebook page, you’ll see we asked that very question; we encourage you to answer with…
Entertainers Finish First: Tucker Max on Twitter
“Does everybody know who Tucker Max is?” host Julia Allison asked the audience of mostly iPad-equipped twenty-somethings at Social Media Week on Tuesday evening. “Why else would you be in the basement of the Hyatt?” said Max, quick to assure his interviewer that everyone in the audience had come to hear solid, if not offensive, advice from the self-proclaimed…
Social Media Week Chicago city partners, Zócalo Group and the Chicago Tribune, announced today that Adam Bain, Tucker Max and Julia Allison will join the ranks of Social Media Week Chicago speakers. For a full agenda of next week’s activities, please visit www.socialmediaweek.org/chicago. Adam Bain, President of Global Revenue at Twitter, will lead a compelling…
Most people equate “public relations” with “spin.” Yet most PR people would tell you that “spin” equals “changing the truth.” MWW GROUP, one of the nation’s top independent public relations agencies, understands how to work with clients to shape a story that yields optimal outcomes. In this edition of the Showcase, we asked MWW GROUP’s…
Social Media Week Chicago kicks off in just under a week, boasting over 70 events across the Chicagoland area. Local businesses and brands will come together for this global event to discuss the changing social and mobile media landscape across all major industries. Events are free and open to the public, but registration is required…