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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…
Much of the insight we generate is actually hindsight and reflective. It draws data that is historical, looking back on what we have done and recorded and in some cases uses that to predict. Where that analysis and insight is used to generate action and intervention that delay between the recorded data being analysed and…
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…
Advisory Board member and part of SPT Marketing Team Elaine Magee shares with us the twitter journey of one of the worlds oldest subway systems fondly known as Glasgow’s very own “Clockwork Orange” SPT’s Communications team held a departmental meeting in Dec 2010 to discuss the needs of the business. We were about to enter one of the…
Today the winners of #instagramyourcity have been revealed. This beautiful pic by Björn from Berlin won the global competition. Congratulations Björn (@bjoekoe)! The winner for InstagramYourCity Glasgow is…@synedrum, with this fantastic picture! Well done Trevor! Special mentions went to these outstanding pics by @niallkennedy @another_noone @one_bg @fewarepict @paolomarl @pictorialsoup @garyRbrown and toyahhere You can find a pinterest board with winner…
Have you ever had only one day to spend in a very famous city in the world? What do you do? I personally take a long walk, and try and see as much as I can, without entering any museums or big tourist attraction, just try and grasp the spirit of the city walking through…
Anyone that knows me knows I like a pint. But it has to be the right pint and to that end I tend to choose craft beer or real ale. It’s a useful hobby as the small brewery and craft beer as industry sectors are much changed through the advent of social tools and so…
We have been working on Social Media Week Glasgow for the past 2 months, and are planning an even bigger success than last year. Once again though it will be largely down to you and your participation, engagement and ideas. You can all contribute to it and in many ways. We’re always looking for event partners,…
Please meet Mark Buckland, MD of Cargo Publishing and 2nd-year member of our Advisory Board. Mark was very active last year and, among everything else, he worked with us and InnerEar on two #SMWGla projects, the Very Short Stories Book and the crowdsourced audiobook SpokenHerd. What about this year? “Bigger, better. That’s the challenge”, Mark says….