Glasgow

Many of you in the past few weeks have been getting in touch to offer your help and collaboration for Social Media Week Glasgow. A big “thank you” to all of you!

Now it’s time to start putting something on schedule Days are running fast, and 15 weeks to organize such a big event are not so many! From the 14th of June, we will start accepting events submissions. This means that you will be able to submit YOUR idea for YOUR event on SMW Glasgow website.
Over the past 2 years, SMWs around the world have been hosting lots and lots of very varied events, ranging from casual networking tweet-ups through focused workshops and discussions to grand headline presentation-based events with top notch speakers. It’s your call to shape it according to your expertise and to what you think are the audience’s needs.

There is no fixed format for events as long as:

- It is a free event

- Registration is open to anyone

- It takes place during SM Week(19-23 September 2011)

- We can pull the subject under the umbrella of being about the impact that Social Media and/or mobile communications are having on economy, culture and society.

You just need to submit an event proposal through the site and, assuming it falls within the parameters, it will be included on the schedule, simple as that

We have already been speaking with many of you who came to us with brilliant ideas, so it looks like Glasgow is shaping up to be a great Social Media Week City. We will probably organize the events in streams, i.e. social media & sports; social media & arts,; if you wish to get more involved, and would like to be the ‘supervisor’ (or ambassador, as one of our friends suggested) for one particular stream, do get in touch with us!

We also want diversity of location for the events, spreading them around the city in as many iconic locations as we can. So if you think about an iconic building, function rooms and other unconventional spaces where you would like to see an event happening, please tell us, or if you have one you would like to be used – let us know!

Remember that your suggestions and your events are what will make SMW different from other conferences, you will bring specialty knowledge, expert voice, and not least diversity, that would be unimaginable if we did all ourselves.
As we said many times, this will be everyone’s week, twintangibles and New Media Corp are here to co-ordinate what will be in the main a crowdsourced event. On this note, we will soon put out a call for bloggers and for designers so please keep an eye on our twitter and especially our FB page, and participate!

Finally, don’t forget about our first SMW Glasgow tweet-up, happening at the Lansdowne Crescent on the 15th of June. We will welcome anyone who wants to get involved or simply wants to know more about SMW. Please come and say hi, or hello if you talking to Tim!, have a drink with us, and spread the word! We are asking people to register just to keep an eye on the number, you can do so here. Yes, we’re not using the usual twtvite just because we don’t want to be bound to twitter users. As all SMW will be, so will this first gathering of people be as open as possible.
Come as you are, no twitter account needed, just bring your ideas and your enthusiasm!

Hope to hear from you (and see you) soon!