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BBC & Social Media Week
In addition to organising the Radio 4 tweetup this evening (Thursday), the folks at Radio 5 Live have been interviewing their presenters and blogging as part of Social Media Week London, including Richard Bacon, he of 1million+ follower fame…
Richard Bacon on Twitter
Victoria Derbyshire on Facebook and Closing Her Blog
More posts will appears on the Radio 5 Live blog here.
Drupal and Doughnuts
Friday morning sees a bunch of coffee-morning style gatherings for social media types across London, from Tuttle at Centre for Creative Collaboration to The 1000heads Social Media Week Digest at the ICA.
To this line-up, we’re delighted to add Drupal for Doughnuts, that’s not a challenge, but a discussion hosted by the folks at FreshNetworks to meet and chat about the open source CMS Drupal and it’s increasing popularity as a social media platform.
Here’s some more info from the hosts:
“Doughnuts for Drupal” – Drupal for social media
As part of social media week, FreshNetworks will be hosting “Doughnuts for Drupal” – a free, informal breakfast discussion about using Drupal as a social media platform.
If you’re a Drupal programmer, developer, blogger or enthusiast (or a “Drupalite” as we like to say) then pop along and join in the Drupal fun. Free coffee and doughnuts will be served from 8.30am on Friday 5th February at our offices in High Holborn, London.
Charlie Osmond, our MD, will give a quick introduction to the session at 9.00am followed by an open discussion about Drupal. James Andre and Marcus Deglos, our very own “Drupalites”, will also be on hand to answer questions.
The gathering is also the unofficial launch of the London Drupal Hub. With several Drupalites on board already, we have the basis for a hub of Drupal activity, knowledge sharing and best practice right here in our central London offices.
To register your interest, or for more information about the meetup please email jo.stratmann@freshnetworks.com or call us on 0207 692 4376.
- Location: FreshNetworks, 229 High Holborn, WC1V 7DA, London (map)
- Date and time: Friday 5th February 8.30am – 10.30am
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Official Tags for SMW London – Flickr & Twitter
As the events start to unfold they’re being crowd-documented, or crowdumented, if you like. As well as a bunch of handy mobile tools, we blogged about earlier, there’s also a FlickR group for photos.
Social Media Week London Flickr Group
Please add your photos to the group. Handily, it’s called Social Media Week London, which hopefully will make it easy to find.
Go to Social Media Week London official Flickr Group »
And for the Twittered masses, please use the hastag #smwldn for your SMW London-related tweetage. Thanks.
Tools for Social Media Week: Sched, HotPotato & Pegshot
And so it begins…MediaCamp London is already underway with 25 other events to follow (there’s still a few places at some).
To help navigate and record your time at SMW London events, the folks coordinating in New York (waves to Toby, Lauren & crew), there’s some useful iPhone apps to manage your schedule, aggregate Twitter/FlickR activity and ge-locate pictures as you take them.
We’ve already blogged about Sched, which makes it easy to navigate the week’s schedule of events with live updating, here’s some more info about HotPotato and Pegshot:
Pegshot is an iPhone application that allows you to instantly share images and videos with the people that you care about. For Social Media Week, they are going to geo-tag every single event across all six cities. Once you’ve downloaded the app, you will
be able to check into a SMW event and then take pictures or videos and share with your Twitter followers or Facebook friends and they will instantly know where you are and which events you’re attending.
Download from iTunes for free »
Download Android version here »
Hot Potato is another iPhone app that is focused on making it easy to connect audiences around live events as they’re happening. They provide the Hot Potato iPhone app and Web interface for sharing the experience of a live event with a
friends and other interested people (attending, watching, or just following along). It will be great for Social Media Week events as it will combine commentary and photos generated by the audience on Hot Potato (and can import tweets from twitter as
well) and organize the real time stream of people and interaction around your event. Again, they will geo-tag every event, so all you need to do is download the app.
Measuring Up, Social Media Week London Metric Challenge
The cat’s been set amongst the pigeons. The gauntlet’s down. Suppliers, stand by your tools. The London Social Media Week Measurement Challenge is on.
People are monitoring their social engagement in as many different ways as there are people: formally, informally, using power tools or simply browsing.
But for anyone interested in social media professionally, from fundraising through to stock watching, what’s out there to help? Which tools are measuring which kinds of interactions?
To help curious community engagement officers and prying PR folk, marketing mavericks and other enquiring minds, a challenge has been laid down to suppliers of software or measurement analytics. They are challenged to set up their social media measurement tool to its maximum capability and monitor and measure the traffic and comments around London Social Media Week.
For suppliers sharing their knowledge at the Social Media Measurement Event on Friday, February 5, this will help people attending to understand and compare a product’s capabilities at a glance.
Different people will be looking for different things – whilst some will be looking to see holes in their programmes, others will be seeking budget justification for the board – so suppliers need have no fear of the comparisons.
Meanwhile we’ll all be watching with baited breath as the Titans clash to show us what they can do. Check out the website for more info »
Picture by wwarby. Some rights reserved.
Crushing It: Social Media Week Storytelling
An international group of writers led by Jill Golick in Toronto are writing a live comedy for SMW told entirely through the medium of social networking. The action starts at 6pm Monday 1st February (GMT) and continues throughout the week.New comedy series, CRUSHING IT: An Internet Love Story, uses social media on air and behind the scenes for a new way of telling stories.
CRUSHING IT gives audiences a unique chance to participate with their favourite characters when it unfolds in real time, which is possible because behind every character is a living writer-performer who is interacting with the audience as well as the other scripted characters. Writers and characters are based in three of the six SMW cities, London, Toronto and New York.
BBC Radio 4 Tweetup Added to SMW London Line-up
And you thought the schedule was complete? We did.
Then the folks at BBC blogs got in touch to let us know that Auntie’s home service (that’s Radio 4 to anyone under 60) is organising a Radio 4 Tweetup (#R4Tweetup) on Thu (4th Feb at 7.30pm) during Social Media Week.
Steve Bowbrick, R4′s blog supremo, writes:
We’ve decided to chip into the programme of activity in London with a Radio 4 tweetup (that’s a Twitter meetup, an informal gathering organised on Twitter) on Thursday 4 February at 1930 in the vicinity of Broadcasting House, Radio 4′s central London home. It’s open to all Radio 4 listeners and there’s no programme of activity, no speakers and no turns. There’s also no charge. It’s not an official event, just an opportunity for Radio 4 listeners to gather in one place and take refreshment.
You’ll find info about the tweetup and a free tour of BBC Broadcasting House that’s open to 20 or so people on the Radio 4 blog. Drop Steve a line for more info and to secure a place. It sounds like a great opportunity to have a look round the Beeb’s London HQ:
The tour, provisionally, includes: an overview of Broadcasting House and the huge new BBC development that’s going up next door, the Art Deco Reception Area, The Radio Theatre, the ‘Artists’ Lobby’, Lord Reith’s Council Chamber, the 7th floor balcony overlooking Regents Street and, depending on whether they’re in use or not, a visit to a studio. Afterwards we’ll go to the tweetup venue and talk Radio 4 and social media into the small hours (or whatever).
Steve’s also working with the team at Radio 5 Live who will be publishing videos of their presenters talking about social media and how they’re using it. We’ll pop them up here, as well.
For full info and contact details, see the BBC Radio 4 blog »
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iCrossing Supports Social Media Week London
A big thank you to iCrossing UK who have joined their weight behind Social Media Week London. It’s much appreciated and you’ll have the chance to rub shoulders with numerous folks from the iCrossing crew at select events during the week.
About iCrossing
iCrossing is one of the largest search and social media marketing agencies in the UK. It delivers search, social and creative services for brands including Coke, Barclays and Virgin that help their customers find, engage and buy from them on the web. Find out more at http://www.icrossing.co.uk
RSVP Soon: Social Media Week Tickets Almost Gone
Tickets are going (or in lots of cases gone) for lots of the 23 events happening as part of Social Media Week London, next week. Hopefully there’s something for everyone from tweetups, to panels, workshops and barcamp/unconference sessions.
The full schedule is up on the website and available in an iPhone app flavour, too. We’ve been overwhelmed with the number of people wanting to add events, with new additions coming in last night.
Here’s a quick run-down of the events that still have a few spaces left, or have just been added.
Media Camp London 4
Monday, February 01, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
This is an innovative un-conference focussed on: mobile media, web development, usability, search, applications, teaching and educational technology, blogging, branding, PR, advertising new and social media.
RSVP: http://mcl4.eventbrite.com/
SMWBe2camp
Monday, February 01, 2010 from 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Be2camp is the place for people interested in how the latest web applications and web design techniques (Web 2.0; eg: RSS, blogs, Twitter, Wikis, Google Maps) could help build a better, more sustainable Built Environment.
RSVP: http://smwbe2camp.eventbrite.com/
Social Media: Music to my ears
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 from 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Join us for the only dedicated music industry event for Social Media Week, London. We have secured a well versed and experienced panel to discuss the highs and lows of social media’s impact on music consumers.
RSVP: http://socialmusic.eventbrite.com
Social Media in Enterprises – the Elephant in the Ecosystem
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 from 6:00 PM – 9:15 PM
When people think of Social media they think mainly of B2C (Consumer) based applications, sometimes “G2C” (Government to Citizen) – but far less often the more B2B and value chain based aspects of Enterprise/Business aspects of Social Media.
RSVP: http://smie.eventbrite.com
ShoreditchTwit X
Tue, Feb 2 6:30pm – 11:00pm
Shoreditch Twit is TEN! Well, sorta. It’s our tenth meet up and we’d love it if you could come and celebrate it with us during Social Media Week. We might even get cake. You like cake dont you?
RSVP: http://twtvite.com/n6qi5e
Twespians
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Twespians is a tweetup for theatre types. It was created becausethere is a distinct lack of opportunity for people who work in, around and at theatre, as well as those who just plain love it, to meet up, socialise and get to know each other.
RSVP: http://twespians1.eventbrite.com
Broadcast Opportunities within Social Media Workshop
Thursday, February 04, 2010 from 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
One hour workshop showing how brands can engage directly with their audiences within the social media environment using their own broadcast assets such as live webTV shows, short form video and audio podcasts.
RSVP: http://smwlondonevent08.eventbrite.com
LSS@Social Media Week, London: The Science of Social Media
Thursday, February 04, 2010 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Local Social Summit follows on from the successful event in November with this exploration of the Local Social intersection as part of Social Media Week 2010.
RSVP: http://lsssmwlondon2010.eventbrite.com
Monkeys Tweetup
Friday, February 05, 2010 from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
This event is for anyone interested in the anthropological / sociological impact of social media – does it have a part to play in social evolution? What is the long term psychological impact of too much (or too little) social networking? What is the overall cultural impact?
RSVP: http://monkeystweetup.eventbrite.com
thupr2: social media measurement/monitoring tools
Friday February 5, 2010 – 2pm
Anyone who has developed tools for social media measurement and monitoring is invited to show them off at this informal mixer. And of course, anyone who wants to to see what’s out there: this is the place for you!
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/thupr2010/calendar/12310584
Many events also have waitlists, so do check their RSVP pages to add yourself.
Picture courtesy of Peter Kaminski. Some rights reserved.
Managing Social Media Week London Schedule
23 events all over London, but how on earth to keep track of where you’re supposed to be and when. Fortunately, one of Social Media Week’s app partners, the lovely folks at Sched have “an app for that”.
The eagle-eyed amonst you will have already noticed the website schedule is also powered by Sched. The iPhone version provides a palm-sized version which will help you build your own schedule, find venues and get live updates as the schedule gets updated.
Did we mention it’s free? And available from iTunes.
