social media week
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…
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…
At SMWLDN HQ we’ve been doing a lot of property investment recently.. Or perhaps I should say hub investment! We have 8 beautiful, shiny hubs across the capital for this year’s Social Media Week. Each hub is associated with a topic theme. Click here for more information about the venues and the sponsors that helped us make this…
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…
Q&A with Tamsin Fox-Davies, UK Development Director at Constant Contact
Constant Contact UK are generously supporting Social Media Week London as Hub Supporting Sponsors for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub at Google Campus. Constant Contact wrote the book on Engagement Marketing™ – the new marketing success formula that helps small organizations create and grow customer relationships in today’s socially connected world. More than half a…
SMWLDN Event Submissions End 5th September & Event Highlights
SMWLDN is so popular that if our HQ base was an American high school, we would be the Regina George of companies… Without all the nastiness of course. As the Event Submission Deadline approaches we are becoming ever more popular with emails and applications but unlike Regina, we try and include everyone. The Event Submission…
Announcing Hub Supporting Sponsor: EngageSciences
Imagine SMWLDN HQ as a beehive – we’re all buzzing around like crazy in preparations for this September’s events. More and more events are being published each day and in London, we’ve gone over 400 unique event registrations already! Considering attendee registation only opened Tuesday afternoon, that’s pretty impressive! As we’ve mentioned, this year we’ll…
Over the past week we’ve had a flurry of new established Media Partnerships for SMWLDN. Please join me in saying a big hello to a couple of our new friends; The Fetch & Newspepper. The Fetch The Fetch helps professionals discover what’s happening in their city. It uncovers the community, bringing the best info, events…
As you will have seen, we were recently joined by 4 wonderful interns who are helping us make this September’s Social Media Week London super! Next week, we’ve set them all the challenge of taking on Social Media Week London’s Twitter (@smwldn) for a day’s Twitter Takeover! We’ve left them to their own devices to…
Q&A with Julian Grainger, Head of Social and SEO, Unique
Unique are kindly supporting Social Media Week London as City Supporting Partner. Unique is a full service digital media agency based in Hatton Garden. Their employees cover 20+ languages and 35+ territories in house for clients such as: Avis, ASOS, Kettle Chips and many more. Their services have won multiple awards, such as: The…