As part of the global festival that is Social Media Week, taking place in 14 cities this September including our very own capital, we’re asking you to represent London and capture it’s unique British beauty.
This contest will be taking place across all this September’s host cities, including Barcelona, Berlin, Bogota, Chicago, Doha, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Jeddah, London, Los Angeles, Torino, São Paulo, Seoul and Vancouver.
In the coming weeks, Social Media Week will launch the Instagram Your City website, which will pull together the best photos. One “Best-in-Show” picture will be selected from these. Once selected, the winning contestant will be given the opportunity to travel to any Social Media Week city of their choosing during the September 24th – 28th event.
“As we continue to add new Social Media Week cities and expand to more incredible parts of the world, we are looking to fulfill the adage of ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’,” said Toby Daniels, Founder & Executive Director of Social Media Week. “As a celebration of the uniqueness of all of our local cities, the Instagram Your City competition will provide a way to tell stories that cross cultural and geographic boundaries.”
How Do I Get Involved?!
You can participate by submitting a picture you’ve taken using a smartphone device that captures the uniqueness and essence of one of the 14 host cities, adding a filter with an app like Instagram, Lightbox, StreamZoo or Hipstamatic, and then tagging the photo using #InstagramYourCity together with the name of their city.
We’d encourage you to share your entries on Twitter, along with the following: “Just submitted my entry to @SocialMediaWeek’s #InstagramYourCity for #London.”
The deadline for submissions is 30th June. If you have any questions or would like more information, please take a look at the press release.
Social Media Week September will take place September 24-28, powered by Nokia. For the latest news and updates and information about participating, how to register, speakers and event updates, visit Social Media Week London, follow SMWLDN on Twitter (@SMWLDN) or like us on Facebook (facebook.com/socialmediaweeklondon).
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.
London, 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.
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 10,000online 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!
The Business Lounge at Nokia Lumia House, Central Soho, running throughout Social Media Week London, Mon 13th – Fri 17th Feb 2012 (9am – 5pm) will be the perfect place to hang out between Social Media Week meetings. There’ll also be fast, free wifi, refreshments, warmth and power on tap if you need to re-charge. You can also see what all the fuss is about with the new critically acclaimed Nokia Lumia range, the team there will let you have a play, and try to win one.
Nokia is excited to support Social Media Week (13th-17th, February 2012) for the second consecutive
year. To showcase its commitment to Social Media Week, Nokia UK, along with Milkround, will
host ‘CV surgeries’ to share tips on ‘how to build a perfect social CV.’
The first 10 lucky people to register will be entered into a draw to win a Nokia Goodie Bag
including the latest Nokia Lumia 710 smartphone and Monster music accessories.
What:Rebecca Gloyne, Global Talent Sourcing and Acquisition Manager
at Nokia, UK will be on hand to provide insights on:
Why a strong social media presence and identity is important
How to create the perfect social CV using Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn
Tips and tricks to get noticed in the social media space
When: 14th February, 2012 between 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm
Where: Nokia House, Soho London
To ensure you get noticed while you are on the job hunt, don’t miss this opportunity and register
Two individuals swap cities – equipped with nothing but a smartphone, they attempt to live off the goodwill of the locals through social media for a week!
In conjunction with Social Media Week, Can Man Live on Social Media Alone is a daring cross-city social experiment to evaluate whether one intrepid traveller can depend on nothing but the good will of locals and the power of social media to survive in a foreign city for one week.
From 9th – 15th February, our #CanManLondon and our #CanManSG will trade cities, power up their social media channels and prepare for the best (or worst).
The #CanMan Candidates
After weeks of searching for the right candidates we would like to introduce you to our #CanManLondon and our#CanManSG (or woman in this case). Meet Martin and Daphne.
Along with the clothes on their back and a smartphone, Martin and Daphne will be given the opportunity to bring ten non-digital items in a backpack as part of their survival kit.
In addition to having to ensure they have food and lodging each day, the candidates will be issued daily tasks, which will be posted on their Facebook Fanpage walls. In the spirit of social good, the tasks will be charitable in nature and will help raise awareness around specific causes within the respective city.
We’re delighted to annouce that since event registration opened last week on the 17th January there have been over five thousand unique attendees register for events globally in the twelve key cities taking part in this year’s Social Media Week 2012 which focuses on Empowering Change through Collaboration.
Over two thousand attendees are registered for events in London alone. Which events are you coming to? Keep an eye out on the schedule of events as more are being added every day!
Don’t worry if your event is not live, you still have two weeks to submit it. The deadline is the 6th February.
Events Just Added
Check out some great events which have just been added to the shedule, including #localgov gets social which focuses on social media in the public sector. Big Data London for all you data geeks out there and Corporate Digital Communities, Do They Work? which looks at real life case studies and what success really looks like.
With 70+ events now live on the schedule, there are plently to choose from!
The overall idea…one person, five days, Singapore. Uncover the power of social media and how it can be used for social good.
One lucky social media enthusiast will be flown to Singapore from the 8th – 13th of January 2012, equipped with nothing but a smart phone and the clothes on their back. Using social media only, they must rely on the public’s goodwill to provide them with food, lodging, clothes and transport. All in an effort to answer the question, can man live on social media alone?
The adventure will end at each of the cities Social Media opening parties on the Monday night where each, lets call them “contestants” will take to the stage and talk about their journey.
This could be you. To get a chance to be involved in this one off experience all you need to do it submit a 60 second video demonstrating what social media means to you and why you think you should be picked for this social experiment. Email you videos to francesca@chinwag.com by the 20th January 2012.
We will be picking the top 3 videos, which will be uploaded for public voting from the 16th January. The public will then have a week to vote on who they think should win. During that week, contestants can do whatever they wish to try and get votes. The winner will be announced on 20th January, 4 weeks before the adventure would start.
We look forward to receiving your videos. Good luck!
The apps market is going from strength to strength, with brands dominating the space, the next generation of apps are increasingly becoming more social integrating; checkin’s, likes and recommendation engines to add extra value to the user, any time any where.
The event looked at the trends in mobile apps, with a spot of forecasting at the connecting point of social, local and mobile and how brands are making the most of the new technology to increase their customer base and interaction with their content.
The event investigated how Search and Social fit together, influence one another and how Facebook Advertising will be the next big thing.
Facebook offers an opportunity to deliver highly tailored and targeted brand and direct response campaigns to audiences of any scale, from a single town all the way up to global communities. CPC and CPM are typically very low, and the micro-targeting against demographics is very effective at acquiring new customers. This complements typical search-based campaigns, which often target existing customers.
Video
The Future of Social Search, hosted by i-Spy Marketing in partnership with MS Advertising took place on Thursday 10th Feb 2011 at Microsoft’s Offices in London. The speakers included:
Orla Malone, Sales Associate UK & Ireland, Facebook
This is a Guest Blog by Stephanie Wollenburg, PR Manager at RPM.
Down Grey’s Inn Road sits Andreas Cafe, an old and battered greasy spoon; the owner of which serves up to ‘400 fried breakfasts in just 2 hours’ every morning. This is where Daniel Young, Founder of Young and Foodish, decided to host his pop-up Social Media Event ‘Two Sides to Every Story’ as part of London’s Social Media Week.
The purpose of the small gathering (30 people attended) was to discuss the encounter between the big Burger King corporation and Daniel, after he decided to invade Burger King at Waterloo Station with a string of red t-shirted burger fans. The ‘invasion’ was drummed up via Twitter and Facebook, through which Burger King caught wind and decided to get involved; bridging the divide between the big dog and the underdog. Jack Clothier of Cow PR (who represent Burger King) spoke at last night’s event, claiming that he decided to come down to Burger King armed with two chefs, who then cooked up a special ‘Atomic Whopper’ burger for Daniel and his clan.
As Daniel and Jack discussed the event in unison last night, what was interesting was the collaboration between them on such a small happening and it was nice to see corporates like Burger King taking an active interest in Social Media, and therefore Daniel’s invasion. Jack jokingly touched on his reservation to come down to Burger King that day without pre-warning Daniel. Neither of them knew much about the other, and it was like two strangers meeting with secret agendas, which thankfully for Daniel, worked out perfectly.
The first hour of last night’s event was greetings, pop corn and networking, shortly followed by the most delicious burger I’ve ever had, prepared by O’Shea’s of Knightsbridge. The thick slabs of meat were 100% Black Angus Beef, complimented by soft seeded buns and a slice of mouth watering melted cheese. Cupcakes from Beas of Bloomsbury and speeches then followed, with speeches from Daniel, Jack and Dylan Fuller from Local Social Summit.
The evening ended with a complimentary Burger King goodie bag (of course), which I was surprised to find contained a Burger King perfume, containing ‘Flame Grilled’ essence.
To watch the un-edited ‘invasion’ of Burger King by Daniel and his foodie followers, click here.
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