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Earlier this month, I had the great honour of being appointed Minister for External Affairs and International Development in the Scottish Government. One of the main purposes of my new role is to foster Scotland’s links with the world, to nurture our many treasured ties as well as building new relationships. Throughout history, our nation has…
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…
Scotland’s Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has launched a new partnership between Scottish Women’s Football and charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer. The partnership is called One Goal and it aims to raise awareness about the signs and symptoms of breast cancer. It also highlights the importance of exercise as way to reduce the risk of the disease….
A new app has been developed to help people in the middle of a riot find safety. The app, not yet publicly released, takes data from a range of social networking platforms and uses it to let people know what areas are least affected by conflict. The app was showcased at the TEDGlobal (Technology,…
Join some of Social Media Glasgow partners at Hub Westminster on Thursday, 16th of February, from 6pm, for a collaborative event with twintangibles, Inner Ear & KILTR to celebrate the impact of Social Media Week in Glasgow and Scotland’s growing digital community, highlighting some of the creative output from schemes initiated during Social Media Week Glasgow, and reviewing the growing opportunities…
Free Crowdcreated Audiobook launches for Burns Night
Legacy of Glasgow’s Social Media Week leads to public created poetry tribute, sees renewed interest in verse. Spoken Herd, a free downloadable audio book created by members of the public, has been launched online. The audiobook, funded by Creative Scotland and part of the legacy from Glasgow’s Social Media Week, celebrates the best of Scottish…
Social Media Week Glasgow presents Very Short Stories
As part of Social Media Week Glasgow, we linked up with Creative Scotland to produce some legacy items that would be fun and demonstrate the power of the online world to promote creativity and provide a mechanism for people to re-imagine themselves as creatives.One of those projects was a Very Short Story…
When we first submitted our pitch to crowdcentric in our bid to bring Social Media Week to Glasgow, we said we would offer tremendous diversity in order to broaden the debate on Social Media. We can safely say Glasgow achieved that by bringing events that were very varied in terms of the subject matter, and…
- Why did you put in the bid for Social Media Week to happen in Glasgow? For a number of reasons. The format of SMW is a very interesting concept of how to put together a conference, it aims to change the way we run conferences in the future, it is essentially crowdsourced so the…
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