Please join us on Wednesday the 15th of June for the 1st SMW Glasgow tweet up! We will be at the Lansdowne Bar & Kitchen in Lansdowne Crescent (just off Great Western Road, near Kelvinbridge Subway Station) from 6pm on.
It’s not just another tweet-up… it’s a smweet up! it will be another chance to tell us more about your ideas for SMW Glasgow in a very cool location in the lovely West End of Glasgow! Come along, even if only for a short while, have a drink, have a chat, and join the ‘ideastorming’!
You don’t need to have a FB or twitter account to join us, and you don’t need your Eventbrite ticket to enter (please don’t print it, let’s keep it green!), just bring your ideas and your enthusiasm!
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.
- 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!
Two weeks ago we unveiled that Glasgow will be the UK host city for the next Social Media Week, taking place from the 19th to the 23rd of September, simultaneously with other 10 cities around the world: Beirut, Berlin, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Milan, Moscow, Rio, São Paulo, Vancouver, and potentially one more to be announced soon!
Since then, we have been happily surprised by the overwhelming offers of help, collaboration, volunteering, partnerships..thanks a lot to everyone! By the end of this week we aim to get back to all those who submitted the get involved form..please bear in mind that this is an important step, which is helping us to keep track of such a generous response. Please keep on using the form to express your interest. Even if at this stage you’re not clear on exactly how you can help, you’re not committing to anything submitting the form, on the contrary it’s a way to commit us to get back to you in the shortest time possible. If you just want to tell us what you’d like to see at Social Media Week Glasgow (and if you don’t really like forms…;), then please contact us through FB, twitter or our email glasgow@socialmediaweek.org !
We have already been meeting some of you, and we are creating marvellous and innovative ideas together!
For now we can just say thanks for being so enthusiastic, it will make SMW Glasgow a big success, and it will be everyone’s success. A big TA also to the brilliant team at crowdcentric, founder of SMW. The guys there are being extremely helpful in each and every aspect, not least the website, just nicely re-skinned..well done!
Also, we’re delighted to work together and to be able to share our views with the other SMW teams around the world, all fantastic people we’re looking forward to work more and more often in the next few months. We’re planning some ‘social twinnings’ too, to make SMW an even more global and interactive event, with no boundaries whatsoever, be them spatial or mental. SMW is social, open, inclusive.. so please, we won’t say it enough, do get involved!
Social Media Week Glasgow will be YOUR week. Let’s make it a great social event, where ‘social’ means collaborative with everyone, and open to all and any ideas! And let’s make it a crowdsourced event, made up of your thoughts, suggestions, inputs…What do you want to see at SMWGla? This is the question..and we’re looking forward to hearing your answers! Please comment under this post or on our FB page, and be inventive.. get creatively involved!
Thrilled to bits to be able to finally shout about the news we have been struggling to keep secret for the past while. Glasgow is proud to be the UK host city of Social Media Week – September 19th – 23rd 2011
A centre of style, creativity and digital engagement Glasgow has come a long way since it led the world in the engineering and commerce of the industrial age. We are looking forward to sharing with the world the vibrant and thrilling buzz of the social Glasgow through an outstanding and diverse series of events. New Media Corp and twintangibles will work with a range of partners and sponsors to make the week one to remember. If you want to be involved in what will be a fabulous week then get in touch.
Following on the great success of Social Media Week February 2011, the world’s largest global distributed conference, organizers have announced dates for the year’s the second edition of the event, scheduled to take place this September 19-23, 2011.
The next iteration of Social Media Week will again span the globe, with simultaneous events in cities all over the world. The first wave of confirmed locations include returning cities Milan, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogota, and São Paulo, plus new entrants from Rio de Janeiro and Moscow. Discussions are underway to add a number of additional cities and the full and finalized line-up will be announced in May.
Far more than just a conference, Social Media Week is one of the world’s most unique organized events, providing through a series of interconnected activities across the world a global perspective on emerging trends in social & mobile media across all major industries–and providing access to everyone entirely free and without registration costs.
With each successive iteration, Social Media Week has grown exponentially, leading up to the February 2011 edition, which hosted simultaneous events in nine cities with over 600 events and 30,000 attendees worldwide. Taking place in eight countries and on four continents and generating more than 300M impressions online, made it the largest distributed conference in the world.
The September 2011 version is expected to have the widest global reach yet, with twelve or more cities participating worldwide.
According to renowed author and luminary, Douglas Rushkoff: “Social Media Week is like a collective mind getting in touch with itself – an autonomous being reaching for new levels of intelligence. The facts everyone exchanges – though valuable – seem less significant than the acknowledgment we’re all thinking and caring about the stuff that matters.”
Beyond its uniquely global format, Social Media Week strives to maintain a model where free access to content, programming and events is made possible by support from global and local brand partners. The headline sponsor for both 2011 conferences is Nokia, the world’s largest mobile device maker, and additional supporters include PepsiCo, Meebo, JWT, AOL, Oi Telecommunications and many others.
“Social Media Week is more than an event, its a movement. Such an innovative event that taps into the human networks of people across the world and encourages sharing and best practice will move us forward faster and more effectively than traditional event silos. Nokia is proud to be powering such an innovative movement through our #NokiaConnects solutions and helping people join the conversations and participate from every walk of life”, said Craig Hepburn, Social Media Week Global Advisor and Global Director, Social Media, Nokia.
Social Media Week is managed globally from New York by Crowdcentric Media, who work with organizational teams in each city to create a globally interconnected network of themes, content and information-sharing. The city partners in each location provide a distinct local feel and flavor to the events that reflect an important blend of global and local interest points. In September, SixPix Content will produce the Brazilian conferences in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; Milan will be produced by Augmendy, also organizers of February’s Rome conference; Bogota by Zemoga; Buenos Aires by Socialatom; Berlin by DeskWanted.com; and in Moscow by the Strelka Institute.
Moscow city partner Katya Girshina, director of public programs for the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, said, “We are very happy that we have been chosen as partners for the Social Media Week in Moscow. It is a very exciting opportunity for us and for our local partners to be involved with such an exciting international event. There is a huge amount of interest among young people in Russia to the development of the social media and a lot of new projects are being launched and developed. It will be interesting for us to share our experience and learn from other participating cities.”
While conversations are ongoing with many cities already about being added to the September program, there’s are still opportunities to get additional cities or brands involved if they haven’t been already. If you or your organization would like to get involved as a city partner and bring Social Media Week to your community, please let us know and visit us at http://socialmediaweek.org/get-involved. Please also visit the link above if Social Media Week is coming to your locale and you’d like to take part as an event organizer, host, speaker or brand partner, or contact Ben Scheim by email at ben@crowdcentric.net for more information.
For all press and media inquires, please contact Ben Scheim of Crowdcentric/Social Media Week at +1-347-224-3996 or by email at ben@crowdcentric.net.
it will be another chance to tell us more about your ideas for SMW Glasgow in a very cool location in the lovely West End of Glasgow! Come along, even if only for a short while, have a drink, have a chat, and join the ‘ideastorming’!
