Note that events are listed in chronological order based on the time of day they occur. 

Art & Culture: 9-11pm: Keynote: Chris Kaskie, President of Pitchfork Media followed by SoundCtrl’s Creating Music for the Social Web

Advertising & Marketing: 9-11am: Keynote: Ben Kaufman followed by Marketing is Ruining the Internet hosted by JWTArt & Culture: 12-2pm: How Street Style Blogs Affect Retail and Design

Business & Innovation: 9am-12pm: Keynote: Dave Gray & The Connected Company: An Inventory of the Possible followed by Panel: Social Business by Design, hosted by Nokia

Social & Environmental Change: 9-11pm: Keynote: Alex Bogusky followed by Social Innovators Collective’s Innovative Models for Social Good Collaboration

Social & Environmental Change: 1130-1230pm: Consumer Engagement and online Community in Social Media

Global Society: 10-11am: The Socialization of Television: Opportunities for Broadcasters & Advertisers

Health & Wellness: 10-10:45pm: How We Did It: The Sanofi Open Innovatino Challenge

Advertising & Marketing: 12am-2pm: Keynote Scott Belsky, CEO of Behance, followed by GOOD panel: Beyond Crowdsourcing: Using The Community To Report

Business & Innovation: 12-2pm: Retail Banking Redux: Can Social Media Create a New Paradigm?

Global Society: 12-12:30am: Jon’s Fireside Chat: Joe Fernandez on Klout

Health & Wellness: 1-2pm: Keynote: Michael Roizen, M.D. Chair, Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute and Chief Wellness Officer, The Cleveland Clinic

Global Society: 1-2pm: Social Love: The Future of Social Media and Relationships

Art & Culture: 1:30-2:30pm: Reflecting on the 54th GRAMMY Awards—Digital Partnerships, Social Media & Innovation

Global Society: 2:30-3:30: Can Media Companies Get Social?

Art & Culture: 3-4pm: @HAHAHAHA: How to be funny in 140 characters or less

Advertising & Marketing:3-5pm: Keynote: John Winsor, CEO of Victors & Spoils followed by Panel: Building Community: Combining Real World Experiences with Online Social Networks

Business & Innovation: 3-5pm: Radical Collaboration 7 Entrepreneurship

Global Society: 4-5pm: The Future of Sharing

Art & Culture: 4:30-5:30pm: The state of curation: An examination of the human element and the promise (and drawbacks) of algorithms

Global Society: 530-630: A Film Screening: Twittamentary

Advertising & Marketing: 6-8pm: A Quizzical Evening in Social Media

Health & Wellness: 3-4pm: The changing face of technology: Click Here for Beauty

Health & Wellness: 4:30-6pm: Let’s Crowdsource! FDA Social Media Guidelines + Sunshine Act Comments

Health & Wellness: 8-10pm: FastForward Health Presents: Stories of Global Health Innovation Film Screenings

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Art & Culture: 9-11am: Digital Voyeurism: How Sharing Real Homes in Real Time is Changing How We Decorate

Advertising & Marketing: 9-11pm: Talk: Screw Earning Media and Start Earning Value with BBH Labs followed by Panel: Why Engagement Should be Spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N hosted by SocialVibe

Advertising & Marketing: 9-11am: Panel: Why Engagement Should be Spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N hosted by SocialVibe

Art & Culture: 12am-2pm: Keynote: Kevin Slavin, Entrepreneur, Provocateur & Raconteur followed by Panel: Are We in a Post-Consumer Age? How E-Commerce is blurring the Lines between Creator and Consumer, hosted by Shapeaways

Advertising & Marketing: 12am-2pm: Beyond the Like: Using Real People’s Real Stories to Drive Brand Awareness

Art & Culture: 3-5pm: The New Ghostwriter

Art & Culture: 4:30-5:30pm: Social Syndication in 2012: Experiences First, Networks Second

Advertising & Marketing: 3-5pm: Social Media for Social Good

Advertising & Marketing: 6-8pm: Deep Focus Presents: An Evening of “Connectedness”

Business & Innovation: 9-10pm: Keynote: Gabe Zichermann on The Business of Fun: Gamification Will Change Your Organization followed by The Future of Gaming, hosted by PSFK

Business & Innovation: 12am-2pm: Maintaining Authenticity and Transparency: How Financial Advisors Are Using Social Media to Build their Business, Hosted by Actiancen

Business & Innovation: 3-5pm: Getting to the Meat of the Tweet Redux (The Meatier and Tweetier Sequel): Applying Big Data Analytics to Social Media Data, Hosted by Opera Solutions

Global Society: 10-11pm: Global Brand Management: Best Practices in a Social World

Global Society: 12am-12:30pm: Jon’s Fireside Chat: Joseph Jaffe and Social Media 2.0

Global Society: 1-2pm: Social Love: The Future of Social Media and Relationships

Global Society: 4-5pm: Do it for Love AND Money: The Social Media Week Valentine’s Day Guide to Riches

Health & Wellness: 9-10pm: Keynote: Frank Moss on the 2012 MIT Health and Wellness Innovation Hackathon

Health & Wellness: 10-10:45pm: Keynote: J.C. Herz on Unpacking the Quantified Self followed by Panel: The Sensor Continuum

Health & Wellness: 1-2pm: Fireside Chat: The Rise of the Patient Platform

Health & Wellness: 3-4pm: This game will make you healthier

Social & Environmental Change: 9-11:30am: Interview: John Katzman and Jeremy Johnson on The Future of Higher Education: Will Colleges Survive? Followed by Panel: The Classroom of The Future: How Social Media Can Better Our Education system

Social & Environmental Change: 12am-2pm: Keynote: Rachel Lloyd, Executive Director & Founder of Girls Educational & Mentoring Services

Social & Environmental Change:4:30-6:30pm: Supercharging Your Love for Facebook Marketing

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Art & Culture: 9-11am:  The Mobile-Social Living Room: How Emerging Media is Reviving the Live Television Experience

Advertising & Marketing: 9-11am: Keynote: David Eastman, CEO of JWT North America, followed by Top Trends that will Shape Social in 2012

Business & Innovation: 9-11am: Keynote: John Bell, Global Managing Director at Ogilvy, on The Insidious Plot to Socalize Enterprise

Global Society: 10-11am: Managing Social Media on a Global Scale

Health & Wellness: 10-12pm: Keynote: Carol McCall, Chief Strategy Officer of GNS Healthcare

Health & Wellness: 10-12pm: Keynote: Michael Graves on People First: Redesigning the Hospital Room

Advertising & Marketing: 12-2pm: Beyond Borders: Impact of Social Media in Global Economy

Business & Innovation: 12-2pm: Keynote: Jeff Dachis, CEO, Chairman & Founder of Dachis Group Followed by Panel: Big Data and Bigger Conversations: Measuring Your Brand’s Social Performance

Global Society: 12-1230pm: Jon’s Fireside Chat: Social Listening with Patricia Gottesman, CEO of Crimson Hexagon

Social & Environmental Change: 12:30-2:30pm: Global Keynote: Don Tapscott, Speaker, Consultant & Author of Macrowikinomics on Re-Civilization: Empowering Change Through Collaboration

Global Society: 1-2pm: Global Social Media Listening

Health & Wellness: 1-2pm: Fast Forward Health presents 73 Cents followed by Q&A with Regina Holliday

Health & Wellness: 2-8pm: The Walking Gallery: An Exhibit

Art & Culture: 3-5pm: Keynote: Jermaine Dupri on Building Community

Advertising & Marketing: 3-5pm: State Your Case: Research vs Social Analytics

Business & Innovation: 3-5pm: Keynote Howard Lindzon followed by Panel: The Evolution of Reg-FD: How Social Media Has Changed Investor Relations, Hosted by StockTwits

Social & Environmental Change: 3:30-5:30pm: Is it Getting Hot in Here? Considering Social Media’s Impact on Climate Change

Global Society: 4-5pm: 10×10 Educate Girls, Change the World. Accelerating social change and leveraging media, technology and innovative strategic partnerships to get there.

Art & Culture: 4:30-5:30pm: Social Sharing and The Art of Doodling

Health & Wellness: 4-6pm: Designing for Desire

Health & Wellness: 6:30-8:00pm: Networking Cocktail Reception, Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson

Global Society: 6:30-9:00: Meet the Afropolitans: Digital Media + Culture In Africa

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Our global team of sponsors, curators, staff, event partners and volunteers has been hard at work to get to this point. With a week left, we’re excited to spend the next few days highlighting everything you’ve got to look forward to right here on the blog.

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Susan Halligan, twitter: @srhalligan

A familiar face at Social Media Week, Susan moderated 2011 panel, “The Inner Workings: Social Media Success Through Coordinated Staffing,” and co-keynoted “The Connected Network” at the Arts Marketing Association’s Digital Marketing Day in London in November 2011. On February 14, she will moderate Literature Unbound: Radical Strategies for Social Literature at NYU during Social Media Week New York 2012. I spoke with Susan to learn more about her work and experiences.

You have quite an impressive biography.  How did you become involved in social media?

Thank you, Lisa. I began to explore Facebook and Twitter in the early fall of 2008. Honestly, I originally started playing around with the platforms, because I had a very small marketing budget and was lured by the fact that the platforms were free. It was very much a “let me see what we can do with this” undertaking. I had no idea, actually, what I was doing, but spent a lot of time exploring and learning, and began to see that social could be integrated into traditional communication channels and that it was an opportunity to take the library’s brand and initiatives to entirely new audiences in a very powerful way. I became very passionate about social and remain so. While paid media remains an important component in any marketing campaign, the trend for marketers is to spend more resources on social and less on paid.

You established the first-ever marketing department for The New York Public Library.  What changed?

Most of the library’s outreach efforts prior to my hire were concentrated on print advertising. I was hired to create and implement an integrated marketing effort across multiple channels.

In 2010, you helped The New York Public Library win the PR News Non-Profit PR Award: “Use of Twitter, Success through a Coordinated Staffing Model.”  What went into this work?

I built a teamapproach to content marketing at the library. Non-profits have limited resources (i.e., people) to push messaging. But a big organization like the library has multiple message points: programming, customer service, circulation, collections, to cite just a few. It’s a matter of coordinating outreach. Though internal education and training, a regular working group of key stakeholders, the creation and implementation of polices, including a Crisis Plan, Best Practices and an Editorial Calendar, we were able to dedicate staff throughout the organization to message on a daily basis using team tools like HootSuite and Socialflow.

What kind of metrics were used to determine that The New York Public Library is #1 public library in the world on Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare?

Community growth, brand mentions, interactions and referrals. We published a monthly Metrics Dashboard using Facebook Insights, the HootSuite and Socialflow Twitter clients, Twitter Counter, Radian6, AddThis and Google Analytics. We shared the data with key stakeholders and examined it closely for insights about messaging, engagement and content.

How does social media for a library differ from social media from other companies?

It doesn’t. Like any business engaged in social, we had a long-term customer-centric vision. One of our major goals was discoverability. We wanted social users to be to be surprised and delighted to find us online (and to discover online and offline resources, like free databases and thousands of programs) and to think “Wow, I didn’t know you could do that at The New York Public Library.”

Have your ideas ever been challenged?  Which ones and how did you overcome resistance from others?

If an idea isn’t challenged, it may not be that good.  The first step in social media iteration is to identify the organizational challenges: internal resistance (turf, legal, security), lack of resources, lack of skills, an ever-changing technology space and the ongoing challenge of measuring ROI.

Alignment is key: the ability to rally internal resources and stakeholders is the #1 skill in successful social media integration. Evangelizers must be able to maneuver adeptly within an organization and rally the “deciders” for support.

Does Foursquare have any real purpose in relatively remote towns with a maximum of 30 retail businesses?

As part of its 2011 Centennial, NYPL was the first in the world to secure a Foursquare badge. The badge was yet one more way to introduce the library to new audiences and it proved a very successful partnership in terms of unique users, check ins and check outs.

AdAge recently did a post about Foursquare’s connection to “mainstream” retailers. Chris Copeland wrote: “Foursquare is a regional play that masks what it is not – a middle America, mainstream tool.” He suggested that Foursquare needs to continue to educate businesses about the benefits of its platform.

What do you think is Foursquare’s future?

Mobile location-based social networking will continue to be adopted.

Of all the campaigns you’ve led, which was your favorite?

The Centennial of NYPL’s flagship Fifth Avenue building in 2011. It was a perfect storm of owned, earned and paid media: there was an exhibit; a microsite; multiple programs; an advertising campaign that included print, radio, outdoor, transport and online; publications; signage; ecommunications; and a deeply integrated robust social effort across Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube. I secured VIK sponsorships from The Wall Street Journal, Titan Outdoor and the MTA to support the efforts. One interesting metric from the campaign was the incredibly high level of engagement with the library’s social content.

What is the most innovative use of social media that you’ve seen?

I am a big fan of Coke’s social strategy and tactics. I love that their Facebook Page is governed by regular fans, not “experts.” At the library, much of its social success is owed to the contributions of its staff. Power to the people!

Lisa Chau has been involved with Web 2.0 since graduate school at Dartmouth College, where she completed an independent study on blogging. She was subsequently highlighted as a woman blogger in Wellesley Magazine, published by her alma mater. Since 2009, Lisa has worked as an Assistant Director at the Tuck School of Business. In 2012, she launched GothamGreen212 to pursue social media strategy projects. View her online portfolio or follow her on Twitter.

Looking at both cases, I would not worry for the moment. Unless I am an ardent user of Google+. Your queries for simple knowledge acquisition could be obfuscated at the expense of the search monolith. Google+ has decided to adjust their algorithm to deliver results based on your social media presence and online history.

In short, you search for “Ethiopian Restaurant Reviews in D.C.” Instead of seeing results from leading content providers like Yelp and Zagat, you’ll see individual reviews from John and Jane at the top of your index. One could ask this question: What is Google’s strategy with Plus?

I have an account and like the tool integration of mail, search, chat, and so forth. But it hasn’t registered into my daily social experience. I don’t feel like I’m alone in relaying this sentiment.

As a result, it appears that they are featuring the product at all costs.

The author from State of Search also mentions that a security option toggle allows the user to turn off personal results for privacy measures. Nevertheless, the damage is slowly spreading. Google’s strategy to drive user statistics for their social media tool could backfire.

A cynic may feel that research development was already compromised with the emergence of Google and Wikipedia. They are wrong. Society may look to their immediate network for credible solutions. They are also wise enough to seek knowledge from those who deliver content with expertise, intelligence, and passion. Despite the age, this axiom lives in the cumulus cloud.

Abdul Fattah Ismail is a digital marketing specialist with expertise in content development. He lives in New York and is an MBA graduate in Marketing Management from St. John’s University. He has contributed articles for Blueliner Marketing and Talent Zoo.  

RUN AWAY

Get your heart pumping, increase blood flow and circulation, create distance between you and your project through movement. Run, skip, walk backwards, do some jumping jacks. You may find that a flash of inspiration strikes you as you loop around the block or stroll through the park.

PRETEND YOU’RE SOMEONE ELSE

Assume a different persona. Notice how you see the world and respond differently. Think about your audience. What do they want? Are their needs different from your own? When you’ve slipped on someone else’s shoes, what do you crave?

KNOW NOTHING

Ask questions. Lots of them. It doesn’t matter if you know the answer or if it’s something that can’t be solved. Come up with as many questions as you can and write them all. By the time you jot down one hundred, you may be surprised where your mind has led you.

GET LOST

Change your environment. Wander in a new part of town. Move your desk around so when you automatically reach for your red stapler, it isn’t there. Something as simple as adding a new photo to your desktop may cue your mind in a new way.

REBEL

Give yourself a set amount of time to think about anything except the task at hand. Do NOT do what you should be doing. You may be surprised that this self-permission frees your mind in other ways. Play with putty. Make a paperclip sculpture. After fifteen minutes of slackerdom, revisit your project and watch where this sense of freedom has led you.

If you’re feeling extra inspired, submit your event ideas. Even if they are not completely refined, we’ll help you organize your thoughts and create an experience that adds to Social Media Week 2012.

Flickr Photo credits: Maurice Melchers, plasticrevolver, Rev Stan, Eleaf, ockenden

It is clear that men have far more channels to survey available products. Marketers, nevertheless, are still trying to solve the dilemma of drumming up sales figures. Ricardo Poupada of AskMen.com believes that a brand has to add a little more.  ”With deals targeting men, the smart money is moving beyond product discounts to deals that offer novel experiences, with a focus on quality.”

As a man who places a high quotient on sartorial matters, I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Poupada’s sentiment.  I scour all types of forums to identify, locate, and purchase goods.  I not only want to find exclusive products, but also durable ones that will last over time.  They become part of my personality, telling the world of my life experiences upon first glance.

Men live for discovery.  They also want to stand out amongst their peers. Creators of men’s products should heed these tidbits for 2012.  E-commerce merchants have built outstanding user experiences online.  Many more need to connect offline for the hearts and wallets of men.

Abdul Fattah Ismail is an interactive marketing specialist with expertise across a range of online strategies. He lives in New York and is an MBA graduate in Marketing Management from St. John’s University. He has contributed articles for Blueliner Marketing and Talent Zoo.

El Lissitzky, 1929

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 be a phenomenon of our generation, but social change has utilized the benefits of branding since the invention of large format printing for posters during the Belle Époque era of the late 1800’s.  One of the greatest examples of branding social change of this kind is the Communist society’s use of previously banned modern art and movies as the perfect platform to attract, inform, and motivate the illiterate masses.

Not intended as a history lesson, I’ll fast forward to the current tides of social change: the uprising in Egypt, Occupy Wall Street, The Tea Party. All have used social media as a conduit to the masses and each other, giving their own unique voice and persona that distinguishes them not only from each other but to the media.  This is where we come full circle.  This, my friend, is known as branding.

An adviser to small businesses and start-ups, Darcey launched the Solo-Preneur Success Program based on brand strategies and corporate citizenship platforms. Her work has been chronicled in The New York Times, Forbes, TIME, and AOL Online; she has keynoted at IBM, the SBA, MORE magazine Re-invention Convention, Staples, BDO Seidmans, T-Mobile, and on her own DVD “The Essential Guide.”