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Social Media Week Returns to London, 24-28 September 2012

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We have a VERY exciting announcement for the future of Social Media Week London, and we wanted you to be the first to know!

You may have heard that the first few cities returning to Septembers Social Media Week lineup have been released.

ChinwagLondon, Social Media Weeks second largest city, will also be joining this initial lineup! For three consecutive years, Chinwag has hosted Social Media Week London which will be moving from February to its new September home as of 2012 onwards.

By moving to September, SMW London will continue to enjoy more future successes and will enable more people to take part.

So far, Septembers returning cities include Berlin, Bogota, Chicago, Glasgow, Los Angeles, London, Sao Paulo and Vancouver. Final cities will be announced on May 2nd.

Want to Get Involved?

Whether you’re new or old to Social Media Week London, if you’d like to know how you can participate as a sponsor, advisory board member, speaker, or event partner please head to our Get Involved page and follow the instructions to submit your details. We’d love to hear from you!

SMWLDN February 2012 Recap

SMWLDN February 2012 included 178 events, 8 designed and run by Chinwag and a whopping 170 created and delivered with love by our 97 event partners including Nokia, Google+, Ogilvy, Constant Contact, BBC, Channel 4, iCrossing, 3 Monkeys, We Are Social and many more.

Over 15,000 tickets were snapped up and over 10,000 online viewers watched the week’s livestreams. The week saw over 102,400,000 social impressions with Social Media Week (#SMW12) trending every day on Twitter. Check out the SMW Feb 2012 Recap Video!

See you in September folks!

SMWLDN Video: ‘Social Media, The Olympics and BBC – Preparing for London 2012′

Olympians

Our pals at BBC hosted their very own Social Media Week event in London this year. Did you catch it? ‘Social Media, The Olympics and BBC – Preparing for London 2012‘ is now available to watch on video at Chinwag.com!

The session boasted a very athletic panel, including Olympians Gail Emms, Zac Purchase MBE and Mark Hunter MBE. Also joining them was Roger Mosey, BBC Director for London 2012 and Lewis Wiltshire, BBC’s Digital Olympics Editor & Social Media Editor, BBC Sport.

Hear how social media will take part in the BBC’s London 2012 coverage, how athletes and journalists will use social media during the Olympics, and how the BBC’s audience can expect to interact with broadcast coverage and the key players from the worlds of sports and entertainment!

Head to the event page now to watch BBC in action at Social Media Week London!

SMWLDN Global Keynote ‘Freedom of Tweet: Censorship, Governments, Marketers and The Law’

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Did you happen to catch the Social Media Week London 2012 Global Keynote event? You can now watch the event on video at Chinwag.com!

Freedom of Tweet: Censorship, Governments, Marketers and The Law‘ features Kathryn Corrick conducting a live interview, discussion and Q&A session with Mark Stephens CBE, one of the UK’s leading legal minds, a veteran of Wikileaks & Hackgate, reknowned for his take on global freedom of speech and censorship.

Hear insight on

  • Commercial guardian of private data: Facebook, AOL & the implications for the future
  • The law of unintended consequences and knee-jerk legislation: Digital Economy Act, SOPA, PIPA
  • Social media in the court room and its impact on the relationship between jurors, judges, lawyers and reporters
  • The criminalisation of speech around the work, free press and the impact on journalists and publishers

Head to the event page for more information.

Filmed by Kinura, Photo (cc) alisolook1993

Social Media Week Awards 2012: And the winners are…


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Your votes are in, London!
 

After a mammoth Social Media Week for 2012, it’s time to reveal who youdubbed as this years best SMW Event and Speaker in London, as well as Social Media Personality and Campaign of the year! 

Thankyou to all who participated in voting, Chinwag is delighted to announce our category winners for the SMW Awards 2012, sponsored by 3 Monkeys.

The Category Winners are:

SMW London Event of the Week: The Future of Sharing

SMW London Speaker of the Week: Nathalie Nahai, The Web Psychologist (The Psychology of Online Influence)

Social Media Personality of 2011 (UK): Jon Davey, Social Media Directors

Social Campaign of the Year (since SMWLDN 2011): BrewDog Equity for Punks

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Watch the Google@SocialMediaWeek event online now!

Google@SocialMediaWeek

Google+ hosted their sellout Google@SocialMediaWeek event in London on Thursday 16th February 2012 at the SMWLDN 2012 Hub, sponsored by Google! (What a mouthful!)

If you weren’t one of the lucky one’s who managed to snap up a ticket, head to Chinwag.com where you can now watch the event online! Watch it now.

Hear the latest thinking on social media and our wider social worlds from Google experts, academics and advertisers.

Highlights include:

Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, talking why the internet won’t get you any more friends

Beth Foster, Senior Google+ Strategist at Google UK, demonstrating a live (and entertaining!) Google+ Hang Out

Two interesting case studies from Jerry Daykin, Social Media Community Manager at Cadbury and Emily Subden, Social Media Manager at Oxfam.

So if you missed out on attending the event physically at Social Media Week London – go on, treat yourself!

Photo (cc) Ravensbourne Social Media Week 2012

Missed #smwldn? Weep no more! Check out events on Livestream

Livestreaming of SMW events

Social Media Week London is officially done and dusted for 2012 – wow, what a week! 

Over 180 events took place in celebration of social media and over 15 000 digital lovers flocked to sessions all over Central London. 

Now, we realise that alot of amazing sessions clashed throughout SMWLDN and appreciate that one can’t be in 5 places at once! Thankfully, we had Kinura on board as the official SMWLDN Filming Partner to stream online several of the events that took place at the SMWLDN 2012 Hub. So, head to Livestream and catch up on some of those fabulous events you may have missed.

Here’s a hot list for you to muse over:

Monday 13th February 2012

Mind the Gap: Avoiding a Social Media Skills Crisis hosted by Chinwag

Supercharging your Facebook Marketing hosted by Constant Contact

Social Celebrities hosted by Liberty824

Tuesday 14th February 2012

Social Business in Action hosted by Edelman

Family Circles: Parents, Children and Marketers hosted by Chinwag

Ogilvy Keynote: The Insiduous Plot to Socialise the Enterprise hosted by Ogilvy

Sex, Love and Social Media hosted by Chinwag

Wednesday 15th February 2012

Never Mind the Buzz – Getting to the Real Value of Social for Enterainment Brands hosted by Doco

Social Media: Teenage of the Species hosted by Chinwag

Me! Me! Me! The Battle for Attention: Brands, Publishers and Social Networks hosted by Chinwag

The Nokia Innovation Lab hosted by Nokia

The DNA of a Company: How Social Media is Impacting Business Models hosted by Media Sauce & Creative Industries KTN

Reaching the 7 Billion: Using Mobile to Create Global Social Engagement hosted by Edelman

Talking Telly hosted by Liberty824

Thursday 16th February 2012

The Future of Sharing supported by Nokia, hosted by Beyond

Email and Social Media: The New Rules of Engagement hosted by Constant Contact

The Psychology of Online Influence hosted by Chinwag

Social Media, the Olympics and BBC – Preparing for London 2012 hosted by BBC

Friday 17th February 2012

The Social Consumer: Digital Detox hosted by Mintel

Inside the Firewall: The Social Business Revolution supported by Nokia, hosted by Chinwag

How Attention Scales on the Web hosted by iCrossing

Sit back, relax and enjoy!

Picture (cc) Ravensbourne SMW

SMW London 2012 Event Organisers Briefing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are you hosting a Social Media Week event? Or perhaps thinking about it?

With SMW London 2012 just 3 weeks away, we’re sure you have a lot of questions about the best way to promote, register and cater for your event. We want to help! So get your questions at the ready:

The Social Media Week London Event Briefing is at 6.00pm Tuesday 24th Jan at our SWMLDN 2012 HQ (34 Leather Lane, Clerkenwell, EC1N 7SQ. The nearest tube is Chancery Lane on the Central line. Please ring the bottom bell, labelled ‘Blue Barracuda’.)

All current and potential Event Organisers are invited to attend this Q&A session. Please just make sure you RSVP !
The SMW London Team look forward to meeting you!


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