Social Media Week

Social Media Week is proud to have Nokia as the Global Headline Sponsor for 2012. Nokia brings best-in-class devices and solutions to the market together with leading enterprise technology partners. Together Nokia delivers a range of unbeatable end-to-end offerings to all individuals and businesses of all sizes. Nokia’s technology will be incorporated throughout the Social Media Week platform. Most notably, Nokia will be connecting Social Media Week attendees through real-time conversation and also a location check-in experience. In addition, Nokia will be sharing mobile devices to select attendees.

Ogilvy & Mather is one of the largest marketing communications networks in the world, with 450+ offices in 120 countries. The agency services Fortune Global 500 companies including American Express, BAT, BP, Cisco, Coke, DuPont, Ford, Gillette, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, Kraft, Lenovo, Mattel, Motorola, Nestlé, SAP, Unilever, and Yahoo! The quality of our network is based on the strength of our international network, our local strength and depth across all communication disciplines, our culture of collaboration and our people.

Constant Contact is revolutionizing the success formula for small organizations through affordable, easy-to-use Engagement MarketingTM tools that help create and grow customer relationships. More than half a million small businesses, nonprofits, and associations worldwide rely on Constant Contact to drive ongoing customer dialogs through email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online surveys. All Constant Contact products come with unrivaled KnowHow, education, and free coaching with a personal touch, including award-winning customer support. Constant Contact and the Constant Contact Logo are registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All Constant Contact product names and other brand names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of the award-winning Guardian and Observer newspapers and guardian.co.uk launched a new US venture- guardiannews.com – in September 2011. Headed up by Janine Gibson, former editor of guardian.co.uk, Guardian US, a digital operation in New York, was created to reach global citizens living in the US with the innovation and energy of a start-up, ground-breaking journalism and the backing of the Guardian brand. With more than 10 million unique users, Guardian US brings a commitment to an open, interactive and a collaborative newsroom to their audience.

TNW is a blog network with its roots in the annual conference of the same name in Amsterdam. We invite thought leaders and Internet entrepreneurs from all around the world to share their views on the future of the web. Covering technology news, business and culture the blog has grown to serve 1.5 million unique readers every month and developed a reputation for breaking major Internet news stories from around the globe. Our network of writers across Europe, Australasia, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and North & South America means that if it’s worth hearing about – you’ll hear it from us.

The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world’s leading business news and information organizations, recognized internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Along with FT.com, The Financial Times has an average daily readership of 1.9 million people worldwide (PwC audited figures, April 2010). FT.com has three million registered users.

Livestream’s mission is to build a next-generation live cable operator. One that is global, social, user friendly, reaches all devices and is accessible to anyone interested in broadcasting an interactive live video experience – for free. Livestream is the leading live video destination and platform. Event organizers, content owners, celebrities and artists around the world use Livestream’s social broadcasting tools to engage and grow their audiences on the web, mobile devices, and connected TVs. More than one billion video minutes are streamed each month to a growing community of 20 million monthly viewers (50,000 of whom will be watching right now).

Dopamine is a creative agency headed by one of the world’s foremost gamification experts, Gabe Zichermann. Through innovative game design, time tested gamification strategy, and an agile, iterative development process, Dopamine produces memorable, engaging, and effective game experiences. Dopamine is the lead designer and developer of the SMW RealTime application.

Mobile Perspectives delivers both solutions and consulting services to enable clients to effectively communicate with their target audience via mobile devices. We aid organizations in developing or refining their strategies to best leverage a wide range of mobile technologies. We enable clients to extend their web and social media presence to mobile. We leverage the capabilities of today’s smartphones to create engaging on-device experiences. We bridge the best of what clients already have with what they need to create a mobile interaction that is compelling for their target audience. We use our mobile perspectives to inform your mobile solution. Mobile Perspectives provides market engagement, business development and product strategy consulting services to digital agencies, technology companies, individual businesses and organizations. Within a mobile solution, our Mobile Campaign Edge platform provides a critical edge to clients by differentiating how they engage their target audience.

New Media Innovation is a provider of Mobility solutions for organizations wishing to have a presence on the Mobile Channel. Our innovative technology delivers audience to your brand, new targeted audiences, new impressions and new opportunity. New Media Innovation’s suite of Mobility products bridges the gap between over-engineered out-of-the-box non-customizable solutions and a fully customized development. Our flexible mobile publishing framework is based on proven third party and open-source products, maximizing cost efficiencies while reducing risk and implementation time. We provide our clients the simplicity of an OOTB solution with the flexibility and extensibility of a purpose built solution. Our customers transcend all industry sectors and have placed their trust in New Media Innovation to help define and execute on their Digital strategy to maximize their return on investment.

Event Espresso is the official scheduling and registration technology partner of Social Media Week. Close to 1,000 events will powered by Event Espresso, the premiere event registration and management plugin for WordPress. WordPress developers use Event Espresso as a event registration framework to create customized event registrations for their clients. This premium plugin allows you to turn your existing blog or website into a fully featured event management website. Click here to visit Event Espresso.

In partnership with SMW, Sysomos will be providing insight into the buzz, discussions, and trends taking place during the week-long series of events hosted around the world, both during the past February Social Media Week and for the upcoming September series. Sysomos brings business intelligence to social media; providing instant and unlimited access to all social media conversations to quickly see what’s happening, why it’s happening and who’s driving the conversations. Through the use of contextual text analytics and data mining technology, Sysomos collects data from blogs, Twitter, social networks, messages, boards, wikis and major news sources, providing you the ability to quickly discover the tone of the conversations and identify sentiment by gender, age and location. Sysomos is Greek for “everything together”.

The Ito Partnership is a brand development firm that employs strategy and design to help clients create sustained value and drive accountable businesses.