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BuzzFeed & Entrinsic Create the Ultimate SMW Videos
One of our FAVORITE things about Social Media Week is all of the incredible content created around it. Memes, GIFs, photos — you name it. This year, both BuzzFeed and Entrinsic’s Eli Singer, went above and beyond by creating these hilarious videos. BuzzFeed: The DOs and DONTs of Social Media Entrinsic: Nobody Wants To Be…
MKG creates experiential programs that connect trendsetting consumers, influencers and the media to brands. They exist to engage, entertain and brighten people’s lives through the experiences they create. So, obviously, it was a no-brainer when we chose them as our partner in crime for the production of this year’s Ideas Connected at Global HQ. While we’ve…
Advisory Board Member, Colin Nagy, is the Executive Director of earned and social mediaThe Barbarian Group. We asked him about the future of social, his interest in SMW and a few other questions. Here’s what he had to say: 1. What is your or your organization’s greatest success with social media to date? We’ve done…
Social Media Week Advisor Steve Schlafman is a Principal at Lerer Ventures. He sat down with us to talk Vine, Louis CK and a love for SMW Founder Toby Daniels. 1. What is your or your organization’s greatest success with social media to date? We converted our static and boring homepage found at LererVentures.com into…
Ogilvy Returns to SMW NYC, Hosts Master Class and Events
Photo courtesy of Social@Ogilvy We are thrilled to have advertising behemoth Ogilvy & Mather join us again this year as an NYC Supporting Sponsor. Their thought leadership in social media can best be demonstrated through Social@Ogilvy, which they announced at SMW NYC last year. A cross-discipline team of social experts focusing on social business solutions, listening…
Advisory Board Member and cofounder and CEO of Sawhorse Media, Greg Galant, talks Seinfeld, SMW parties and the necessary nature of GIFs: 1. What is your or your organization’s greatest success with social media to date? Our organization is our organization’s greatest success with social media – Muck Rack and the Shorty Awards were built completely…
Photo: LiveWorld CEO, Peter Friedman Our NYC Opening Party Supporting Sponsor and Event Host, we sat down with LiveWorld to talk all things social media. A user content management company, LiveWorld is a trusted partner to the world’s largest brands, including the number-one companies in retail, CPG, pharmaceutical, and financial/travel services. 1. What is LiveWorld’s…
With only a few weeks until Social Media Week New York, we are daydreaming constantly about one thing: the opening party. Our partner LiveWorld, a user content management company and trusted partner to the world’s largest brands, is one of several sponsors making it happen. Along with Nokia, BuzzFeed and Whole Foods, LiveWorld is throwing…
(A guest blog by our friends at Breathe Repeat) You’ve been working your ass off, and now you’re heading into Social Media Week. It doesn’t look like you’ll be getting R and R anytime soon. Instead of heading out to Jack’s for your fourth latte of the day, why not try a little yoga instead?…
Event Spotlight: Internet Zero to Rock Star Shero
If you didn’t think Google+ alone could make you a household name, think again. Singer songwriter Daria Musk went from internet zero to rock star Shero in the span of a 6.5 hour online concert. To learn more about Daria’s remarkable story and the ways in which social media can double as a star making…
Technology & Collective Intelligence: A Recipe For Impact And Success
(Part 3 of 3 in the Architects, Inventors and Collaborators Blog series.) It’s no secret that our world has become increasingly social. I wonder, however, if those outside the technology industry have paid mind to the way in which technology has become intrinsically linked with collaboration. Whether crowdstorming, crowdsourcing or crowdfunding, hackathons or strategic alliances,…
This post is a series of blogs contributed by SMW NYC media partner Differences Magazine. To learn more about Differences Magazine and to see the original post by Vivian Nunez, please click here. Taking on Social Media Week NYC for the first time was everything I expected and much more. Nonetheless, I could not help but…
The New Face of Social Good: How To Make Your Own Social Media Magic!
This post is a series of blogs contributed by SMW NYC media partner Differences Magazine. To learn more about Differences Magazine and to see the original post by Opal Vadham, please click here. What do you get when you put a Managing Editor, A Director of Global Marketing, 3 Founders, and A supermodel in one panel?…
There was much to love (pun intended) about the Valentine’s Day edition (Day 2) of Social Media Week NYC 2012. The events throughout the day brought attendees much of the same excitement that defined Day 1, with an array of diverse offerings to choose from. Here are some highlights from the three in-person sessions I attended:…
Day 1 of Social Media Week NYC 2012 was literally a buzz with engaging keynotes, panels, and networking session, far too many for one person to cover. Therefore, the best SMWNYC attendee strategy, from my experience, is to pick your spots for the in-person show-ups, and cover the rest vis a vie LiveStream feed. Accordingly, I was…
Many of you are aware that Social Media Week is overlapping with Fashion Week. With NYC already a fashion capital, this give us all the more reason to be fashionable throughout the week. From events related to fashion to cocktail hours to location, impressions count. And our latest partnership may just help. SMWNYC is excited…
Esteemed SMW NYC Advisory Board member Peter Himler has served as Senior Media Strategist for several of the world’s top PR firms (think Edelman, Burson-Marsteller, Hill + Knowlton, and Cohn & Wolfe) before forming his own Flatiron Communications, LLC. Peter is a master of teaching communications professionals techniques and trends that will serve them best. Not only…
According to The New York Times’ Bits column, Twitter has sent a message that will flutter in the timeline. The social media microblogger will censor content viewed as inflammatory by selective nations. A grey widget will pop up in the time feed, stating that, “This tweet from @username will be withheld in: Nation X.” Disruptive…
Many of your fine social media-savvy folks are aware that the official floodgates for Social Media Week 2012 registration have opened. As a resident New Yorker, I’ll be hitting the pavement hard throughout the NYC boroughs, blitzing innumerable SMWNYC 2012 events for the second consecutive year. As a returning attendee, I figured it apropos to offer…
Branding Social Change; The Persona of Change Through Social Media
The use of the words branding and social change in this title is not an attempt towards commercialization or to cheapen movements such as the Socialist Revolution, Women’s Suffrage, or Civil Rights Movement, but to more clearly identify how we are reaching individuals, giving expression, and creating the tribe around a movement. The internet may…
