social media

Handheld Learning Conference

The Handheld Learning Conference is the international signature event for learning using mobile or ubiquitous technologies. Now in its fourth year the event has become the largest of its kind. 

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Date: 13 October 2008
Location: The Brewery, UK

Wealth of Networks: Digital Economies and the Next-generation Internet

Bringing together experts from across the UK in conversation with the general public. Topics include - next generation health care, e-Government, digital entrepeneurship, trust, secruity, e Society and the future of social networks.

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Date: 24 July 2008
Location: Imperial College London, Tnaka Business School, UK

New Statesman digital award winners

For the last ten years The New Statesman’s New Media Awards have been recognising innovation and the positive moves that peer-to-peer digital technologies are having on modern life. This year the awards have attracted more entries than ever before, from a whole range of ethical and enviromental sectors, and the winners have been announced..

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Mobile Monday: The Viability and Montetization Potential of Social Networks

MobileMonday New York invites you to join them for an expert-panel discussion around the initial findings of Stratemerge’s study on social networks and debate the findings’ potential market implications.

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Date: 28 July 2008
Location: Samsung Experience Centre, US

The UK Catalyst Awards: Community Awards for Social Technology

Can you or someone you know show how technology is already enabling people around them to connect with each other in new ways and do good things? Twenty five worthy projects have been shortlisted in the Catalyst Awards and the winners will be announced on July 24th at a London Ceremony. 

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Date: 24 July 2008
Location: UK

Measurementcamp IV: where the influencers are

Alpha fans leading superfans, super fans leading normals, normals leading those that just don’t have clue. It’s a bit like Harry Potter this social media marketing lark – all muggles and non-magics.

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mashup* Event: Enterprise 2.0

  This mashup* Event will focus on the status of Enterprise 2.0 thinking, where thought leaders are up to and we are sure will stray into the opportunity of effecting and delivering corporate social responsibility and “green” IT.

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Date: 17 July 2008
Location: BT Centre (St Pauls), UK

Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2008

The Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2008, the world’s most important festival that seeks to expand the creative culture of games and interactive entertainment, is now open for registration. This year the Festival has some amazing events and plays host to some of the games industry’s biggest players, including the likes of Sony, Nintendo and Codemasters.

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Date: 10 August 2008
Location: various venues, UK

Face to Face with the Millenials

Following the recently acclaimed ‘Meet The Millennials’ report, MusicTank has invited its author and Nettwerk Music Group’s Co-Founder & CEO Terry McBride to the UK to take part in a very special music business initiative.

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Date: 17 July 2008
Location: Imagination Gallery, UK

Monetise Web 2.0 Social Networks

Monetise Web 2.0 & Social Networks 2008 is where leading media, web and games developers, consumer entertainment, broadcasters and agencies come to discover how to build and monetise social networks, gadgets and widgets.

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Date: 9 July 2008
Location: Royal National Institute for the Blind, UK

Digg – the prototype for the future web

While having a browse online I came across this little belter - A Beginner's Guide To Digg on the Pronet Advertising blog. It’s two years old but hey it’s still pretty good.

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It’s a treasure map but not as we know it


Ok it’s official. I’ve tried to deny it, talk myself out of it but I am indeed a geek. It’s true. Hey, it’s cool to be a geek. I would even go as far to call it chic. Geek-chic.

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