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It’s time to meet a new #SMWGla blogger, Thomas Davies, advertising and public relations student at The City Of Glasgow College, with a passion for the ad industry. Welcome aboard, Tom! In-app push notifications are a feature of iOS, Android and certain BlackBerry handsets that allow apps (both native and third party) to send notifications to…
Registration for all Social Media Week events opens today at 4 pm Registration for Social Media Week Glasgow events opens today, Tuesday the 28th of August. From later this afternoon, you will be able to register for FREE for many of the events in the great line-up of SMWGla. You can also have a look…
Please meet Ellen Arnison, who will be blogging for us during Social Media Week Glasgow. Ellen is a freelance journalist, writer and blogger from Renfrewshire. In her blog, In A Bundance, she writes about children, journalism, autism, feminism, writing and blogging for happiness. This blog post is about the now popular Martha Payne and it’s…
Our friend and advisory board member Jillian Ney tells us more about the Education track at Social Media Week Glasgow. As you may know I’m a returning advisory board member to Social Media Week Glasgow. This year’s global theme for Social Media Week is ‘Empowering Change through Collaboration’, which I love – thanks to Don…
Please meet Rowan Smith, who will be blogging for us during Social Media Week Glasgow. Rowan is Digital Communications Manager for Transport Scotland and she contributes to several web/content strategy forums across the public sector. She has a blog in which she writes about her work and current trends across the digital world of government….
Only one week left to submit your event for Social Media Week Glasgow and be part of this exciting event that will hit Glasgow (and the world) on Monday, September 24. We have told you about #SMWGla many times and in many ways, not yet through a nice cartoon though. Therese Werling, a recent industrial…
Hello Jillian, thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Do we want to start with you telling me a bit about yourself? I have just completed a PhD in social media at the University of Strathclyde – I’m a Dr of social media (well, it will be official mid-August). My research explored what…
With an estimated five million images uploaded every day, Instagram is fast becoming the photo sharing platform of choice. And if submissions from Social Media Week’s Instagram Your City competition are anything to go by – capturing inspiring, real and insightful images of a city is a popular theme. This is perhaps the thinking behind…
This week we’re delighted to introduce you to Angela Higgins, Asset Manager of Skypark Glasgow, main hub of Social Media Week Glasgow for the second year in a row. Angela, thanks for being part of the Advisory Board and taking the time to speak to us now. Let’s start with you telling us a bit…
This is the first in a series of guest blog posts by our headline city sponsors Equator. Fiona gives us a valuable insight into the blogger-brand relationship. With sponsored blog and social media content steadily rising over the last few years, are blogger-brand partnerships at risk of losing their impact? With a strong Glasgow blogging…