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Two heads are better than one. So, 35 must be exponentially better, right? At Chinwag, we’re big fans of building things collaboratively, so we thought we’d really push the boat out for the initial planning of Social Media Week London 2012 (SMWLDN), 13-17th Feb, in case you’re wondering. On Tuesday evening, after an open invite, 35 people…
Preparations Begin for Social Media Week London 2012 #smwldn – Get Involved
Earlier this year in February, led by Chinwag, Social Media Week London included over 110 events, 12 designed by Chinwag and a whopping 95 created and delivered with love by our 54 event partners, including Dell, Dutch Embassy, British Library, BBC, Channel 4, LikeMinds, Viadeo, We Are Social, techMAP, Ogilvy and more. 44% of events…
NOKIA, global and headline City sponsors for Social Media Week London, have teamed up with the organisers to create a way for attendees in all nine Social Media Week cities to participate in the global conversation on Twitter and track individual event check-ins on Foursquare. The first iteration of the project will be delivered via #NokiaConnects,…
To paraphrase Bob Marley in a rather excruciating way. No Wifi? No cry. The lovely folks at Skype have just confirmed, to celebrate Social Media Week, they’re giving away free WiFi through Skype Access, the single-click Internet access feature, in New York, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Istanbul and most importantly London…
GlobalWebIndex are generously sponsoring Social Media Week. We spoke with Tom Smith, CEO of GlobalWebIndex, an online tool populated with the most detailed set of research data for marketers helping them understand target audience, business category and market trends wherever they are in the world. Tom is speaking at Apps Go Social and Measuring Social…
So close…just three more sleeps and it’s Social Media Week London, there’s now almost 100 events listed on the website, which can make it a little tricky to figure out what’s on, and more important where tickets are available. We’ve put together this handy list of all the events, sessions, gatherings and networking events that…
We’re delighted to welcome leading small business community BusinessZone.co.uk as a media partner for Social Media Week London. Editor, Dan Martin, put together his picks of the week for small businesses. Don’t forget to check out the full list of events. Between 7 and 11 February, nine cities around the world will be holding hundreds…
To kick things off, the press launch for Social Media Week globally is being streamed live from the Arts & Culture Club at Hearst Magazines in New York… Watch live streaming video from smw_newyork_hearst at livestream.com
When we started this shenanigans, we estimated there’d be a maximum of 70 events with about 5,000 people attending. And we’d probably had a drink and were feeling ambitious at the time. Yesterday, we breezed past the 5,000 RSVP mark for registrations at events across the week and the number of events (and believe us,…
Tick, tock…the countdown has begun to Social Media Week London. In less than four weeks on Monday 7th Feb, the doors will fly open to dozens of events taking place across London. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and event partners the majority of the events throughout the week are free-to-attend. Neat, huh? The catch?…