SoMe Comms - Social Media Conference - Manchester, Thursday 3 March 2011
Social Media is now a mainstream channel for all communications professionals. The Some Comms Awards staged by Don’t Panic events last year celebrated the very best in UK social media. Don’t Panic are now bringing a follow on conference to Manchester featuring a mix of inspirational award winning case studies, keynotes from some of the most respected practitioners in the country and panel sessions which will allow the audience to get one on one answers from many of the speakers involved in the day.
Case studies will include:
Winner of Best Social Media Campaign & the Grand Prix Awards - FreshNetworks will be discussing their groundbreaking use of Foursquare with their Jimmy Choo Trainer Hunt campaign which saw four thousand Choo fans scouring the capital for the elusive footwear and generated acres of traditional media as a result.
Winner of the Public Sector Award - The British Library, UK SoundMap, an innovative use of crowd sourcing inviting the public to record the sounds of the early 21st Century on their mobiles and upload them to an ever growing archive.
Winner of Best Business Blog Award - Stephen Waddington, MD of Speed will discuss the real value of investing time and expertise in your business blog and the ROI great content can achieve.
Winner of the Innovation Award - Branded3 who launched a free Twitter app called Twitition which has enabled over a million people to participate in easily created online petitions on every subject under the sun.
Other confirmed award winning case study sessions include Seventy Seven Social on viral video and their Nintendo campaign; We Are Social with their FMCG Marmarati campaign for Marmite; Juice Digital on their Brookson Members website awareness campaign: Just Eat's innovative use of Facebook and The University of Nottingham on their low budget but hugely profile raising Election 2010 blog.
Speakers and panellists include:
Rob Brown, UK MD, Staniforth & Chair, CIPR Social Media group; Stuart Bruce, MD, Wolfstar; Gez Daring, Business Development Director, KMP Digitata, Robin Wilson, Director of PR and Social Media, McCann Manchester; James Gordon-Macintosh, Managing Partner, Seventy Seven Social and Paul Fabretti, Director of Digital Strategy, Origin Creative.
Further speakers will be confirmed in the near future and the conference will be held at Manchester's prestigious Bridgewater Hall on Thursday 3 March. E The event is being held in association with the MPA and we have secured a specially discounted rate of £150 + VAT for MPA members, non-member tickets are available at £195 + VAT. Further information on the event and booking details can be found on the Don’t Panic website -
http://www.dontpanicprojects.com/54/content/events_and_bookings/Some_Comms_Conference/
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