Lauren Cotton's blog

Inbetween Social Media Week panels and business meetings, we managed to grab a quick chat with Joshua March, CEO of Conversocial, just after the Social Telly: From Compaigning to Commentary to Community Building panel session on Tues 8th Feb 2011.

Social Media Week London generated so much coverage that it's taken us a little while to pull together all the information. This review brings together the video, slides, pictures and coverage from Social Telly: From Campaigning to Commentary to Community Building, sponsored by Conversocial.

The event looked at the best practice in the world of TV and social media and lessons we can learn from this to take to the advent of social TV.

Brought to you by the Guardian newspaper, Activate New York will be taking place 28th April at The Paley Center for Media, New York.

The Activate Summit is the Guardian's gathering place for leaders of a new global network focused on harnessing and employing technological and social innovation for human betterment.

We're delighted the organisers have offered two lucky Chinwaggers the chance to win a free conference ticket worth $844.99 (£1013.19 to us Brits). 

Entering the competition could not be easier, simply fill in the form below by Monday 18th April and a ticket could be yours.

The GameHorizon 2011 Conference (28th - 29th June) is backed by the GameHorizon Advisory Board as well as a steering committee featuring some of the games industry's leading names. 

A two-day event, the conference features creative, innovative and inspirational speakers from the worlds of gaming, entertainment and business. Attend and network with the experts, the influencer's, the people driving the games industry forward.

We're delighted the organisers have offered two lucky Chinwaggers the chance to win a free conference ticket worth £335.

During the hectic week that was Social Media Week London, we managed to catch up with Tim Green, Editor of Mobile Entertainment, just after the Apps Go Social panel session on Mon 7th Feb 2011.

Social Media Week London generated so much coverage that it's taken us a little while to pull together all the information. This review brings together slides, pictures and coverage from Apps Go Social, sponsored by Nokia and GlobalWebIndex.

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.

Chinwag's Digital Missions, hosted with the help of UK Trade & Investment, have been running for over 3 years, and have included 7 trips to the USA, as well as helped promote and recruit for trade missions to Japan and China.

The missions have been a huge success with dozens of companies finding new business, setting up offices in the US and finding long-term business partners and friends amongst the mission companies.

We're continually looking to improve the missions and look at new destinations, and this is where you come in.

thingmakers will be holding an intense one-day conference in October 2011 about the best of 3D printing and customised manufacturing, covering available technologies, who's doing what, who is making a success of 3D printing, and where is it all going?

We're delighted the organisers have offered one lucky Chinwagger the chance to win a free conference ticket worth £150.

Entering the competition could not be easier, simply fill in the form below by Wednesday 27th April and the ticket could be yours.

Everyone knows that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Or breakfast. Or drinks...

That is, unless you're in Austin for South by South West (SXSW). The Chinwag team will be heading out to Austin along with UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and 31 of the UK's leading digital companies on the UKTI Mission to SXSW.

Alongside the 200+ conference sessions, the trade show (where the Brits have a stand so big, it's been dubbed the British aisle - geddit?) and dozens of evening events, there's more than a handful with an international flavour. 

For those heading in to Austin from abroad, it's a great chance to meet fellow travellers, and the Americans interested in making connections overseas. Here's a few we're involved with (and if you know of more, please feel free to add them in the comments):

• Chinwag's Global Grill @ SXSW
• The Great British Booze-Up
• Great British Breakfast: SXSWi

Creative and Digital Media Apprenticeships offer a great way to harness fresh new talent that understands the digital world.  They provide £10k worth of industry designed training, professional development  and up skilling of existing or new staff across a 12 month period and at no cost to your company (excluding the wage that you pay them).

Many employers are taking on apprentices to help support project delivery, build and run their websites, develop social marketing strategy and run events.

Following on from our recent launch of the Creative and Digital Media Apprenticeships at Apple’s headquarters we have a further 20 free and fully funded apprenticeships available to employers now.

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2011 is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event. GDC 2011, taking place between 28th February and 2nd March, commemorates its 25th edition and serves as a testament of how far the industry has come and as a celebration of its bright future.

UK Trade & Investment are supporting UK firms attending GDC with two sessions providing an opportunity to connect with leading US publishers, understand the trends in the US market and showcase their wares to an international audience.

Over the last week, we've been collecting and curating significant digital 'Things' of 2010 through our website, and all your favourite social media channels (LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter). These 'things' were events, moments, launches, or technical developments within the Digital sector.

We received a fair few responses, and in no particular order, these our top 5 responses:

Social Media Week London currently has 40 confirmed events over the week (7-11th Feb 2011), but we’re still looking for more.

Rome have 70 confirmed events and New York are aiming for 125! Let’s not be beaten by the Americans or the Italians, let’s make London the best on both quantity and quality!

Digital Mission went to New York from 1st - 5th November, along with 19 fantastic, UK-based digital companies.

As part of the 'Inside Digital Mission NYC' series, each company was asked if they would like to go into a bit more detail and share their individual stories.

This mini-interview is with Matthew Scherba from Plancentric, based in London.

As the year draws to a chilly close, we were wondering what your most significant thing of 2010 would be?  Just one!

Your thing could be an event, a moment, a launch or a technical development in the Digital sector that occurred during 2010.