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Guest Blog Post: Working the Room and Continuing the Conversation Online
This is a guest blog post by Tamsin Fox-Davies, Small Business Evangelist, Constant Contact Business networking events, like Social Media Week London, always hold the promise of new connections and the potential for growing your small business. The big question, though, is how to make the most of these types of events. Sure, adding a…
Ever flagged down (or seen) one of these groovy, black and yellow, bumble-bee looking cabs driving around London? They are Hailo cabs – our most recent addition to our fantastic lineup of Social Media Week London 2012 Partners. We are happy to announce that Hailo is joining us as SMWLDN 2012 Transport Partner. Chris McLellan, Social Marketing…
Guest Blog Post: Social Marketers: Think Global, Local and Mobile
This guest blog is by Rich Beattie, Senior Director Oracle Social. Social networks have given us powerful platforms with the ability to provide scale while also targeting at a local and personal level. Armed with the right technologies, marketers today can achieve instant scale across Facebook and other social networks and almost simultaneously hyper-target content…
This guest blog is by Rich Beattie, Senior Director Oracle Social. Social media is a great equaliser. It has turned many traditional publishing methods on their heads, giving us all a platform to publish our content, thoughts and ideas. The phrase “Content is King” has never been more true than in the social space. But,…
Q&A with Richard Jones, CEO of EngageSciences
EngageSciences are generously supporting Social Media Week London as Hub Supporting Sponsors for the Advertising & Marketing Hub at Facebook. EngageSciences is a social marketing platform provider with a difference. Avoiding the rigid templates of the first generation of vendors, brands can deliver exceptionally rich social experiences to engage consumers. Using social data to build up…
Guest Blog Post: 11 Reasons People Aren’t Responding to Your Facebook Posts
This is a guest post by Tamsin Fox-Davies, Small Business Evangelist for Constant Contact. You know that silence during a dinner when, suddenly, no one has anything to say? That uncomfortable silence is being recreated on Facebook Pages everywhere. Businesses are asking questions that go unanswered and posting news items and product pictures that tragically…
This is a guest blog post by Rich Beattie, Senior Director Oracle Social The rise of social gave birth to a brand-new and vital position within organisations: the community manager. But to be honest, “community managers” didn’t begin with social media networks. While maybe not recognised by the title, community managers date back to the…
The event submission deadline has been and gone, the attendee registration is open and there’s just over 2 weeks remaining til Social Media Week London kicks off again! There’s over 100 events live on the schedule, but keep checking back because there’s still events being approved. And while all this is going on, we’ve also…
This is a guest blog post by Rich Beattie, Senior Director Oracle Social History is littered with stories of technologies changing cultures and cultures’ changing technologies. Social is a prime example of both. The rise of social media is a cultural revolution and touches all aspects of our lives. Its success lies in the simple…
Look Who’s Hiring: Chinwag’s Careers Day at #SMWLDN (28th Sept ’12)
Just over three weeks remaining til Chinwag’s Careers Day @ Social Media Week London, supported by JobisJob UK – so we thought we’d give you a little taster of who you can expect to meet at the event later this month. With the likes of Nokia, Financial Times, Ve Interactive and more, it’ll definitely be an fanastic…