London

It’s a testament to how much social media has infiltrated both our professional and social lives, to see the breadth of events already confirmed for London’s Social Media Week.

Check out the full schedule and don’t forget to RSVP for each event directly (unfortuntely, you can’t confirm using the SCHED application alone). And the best bit is that most of the events are free, or at very low cost.

On Monday, we’ll announce and open registration for two more panels, on Monday, Optimising Your Social Graph (sponsored by Meebo and hosted at the IAB), looking at how the media and brands can scale their communications with consumers across such a wide variety of social tools and networks. There’s a spot of lunch and networking planned afterwards.

And on Tue, Chinwag Live returns with a re-visit of the popular panel, Measuring Social Media exploring the golden goose of ROI, metrics and discovering how much has changed in the last year, what’s been learnt and where next. Keep your eyes peeled for more info on both of these.

The IAB are hosting a panel debate, “The Importance of Picking Your Battles Online” on Wed afternoon and Local Social Summit are looking at the Science of Social Media with speakers from the Oxford Internet Institute and the UK’s favourite Twittering coffee retailer, @hasbean on Thu evening.

On the social side, there’s lots planned, too. With a very special opening night event on Monday 1st (details soon), to a range of social gathering of all types from the Twespians to Recruiters and on Friday morning, the legendary Tuttle Club.

There’s also three great PR briefings on Wed morning, with top firms 33 Digital, Porter Novelli and Speed Communications throwing open their doors and welcoming all-comers to hear case studies and expert opinions on reputation management.

And there’s more coming, so make sure you’ve carved out some space in your diary for Social Media Week, London from 1st – 5th Feb.

If you’re planning an event, want to volunteer, have a venue available for use or are looking to get involved as a sponsor, it’s not too late. Drop us a line to get involved.

Yes, hello, this is London calling. Excuse the Eurovision-style pun…in a foretaste of our preparations for the 2012 Olympics, things have started out slowly but are rapidly swinging into gear.

It’s going to be an exciting, busy, thought-provoking week’s worth of events, taking place 1st-5th Feb 2010, which will bring together the leading thinkers, organisers, movers and shakers across the social media spectrum for events including from panel sessions to networking events, breakfast briefings and more.

Building on the success of the first Social Media Week, which took place in New York last year, this time around there’s six cities across three continents taking part. There’s plenty of opportunities to get involved, whether organising an event, helping out on the day, spreading the word, providing a venue, sponsoring Social Media Week, but above all, we hope you’ll come along to the events themselves.

Chinwag, the lead organiser for Social Media Week London, is working with a group of fab advisors and Toby Daniels and the global team in New York. We’re pulling together what we hope will be a engaging and varied week of exploration into social media’s impact across business, media, the arts, politics, society and no doubt, other things we haven’t thought of yet.

We’ll be posting more news on this blog as well as through through Twitter and Facebook. Keep your eyes peeled and if you’d like to get involved, do get in touch.

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