The Case for Manchester Open Data City and the Joys of Courting Corporate Philanthropy
Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
Here come my notes from Tuesday’s Social Media Cafe Manchester event at the BBC’s offices on Oxford Road.
I’ve been a big fan of Social Media Cafe Manchester since being invited to be on the ‘panel of bloggers’ at the very first event in November 2008. Whenever I can I try to blog about each ‘#smc_mcr’ I attend, after the event.
NOISE Lab – Manchester’s Audacious Pop Up Store For Creative City Centre Urbanites
Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired
T-shirt: Mark Wigan creation on sale at NOISE Lab
I really enjoyed last Thursday’s launch of the NOISE Lab, a ‘guerilla arts pop up store’ nestled opposite the Orange Shop and next to Boots the Chemists right on the Great Manchester High Street aka Market Street.
Situated in the former Shelly’s footwear outlet, next to Schuh and in prime shopping centre real estate, this incredibly bold 6 month long ‘experiment’ is born out of the national NOISEFestival.com project, an online community where young creatives in film, music, visual arts and many other creative disciplines develop and showcase their (first, in many cases) online portfolio.
Introduction to Social Media for Media Professionals
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
I’m pretty excited about this! Starting next month, on Wednesday 10th February to be precise, I will be running a new social media training course aimed squarely at the media industry in the North West.
The new Introduction to Social Media for Media Professionals course, designed specifically for digital media professionals considering use of social media within media projects, builds on Real Fresh TV’s success with the UK’s longest running ’social media for beginners’ course: the Social Media Starter Course.
Along with an assessment of workable strategies for developing multi-platform content, the course concludes with an introduction to the rigours and demands of creating content for multiple platforms.
Read on for details of the course and how to register. (more…)
Social Media Starter Course – Tuesday 27th October, 9:30am – 12:30pm
Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
It’s been a little while since the last Social Media Starter Course but I’m pleased to announce there’s one scheduled for Tuesday 27th October 2009.
Real Fresh TV’s innovative Social Media Starter Course was developed over a year ago and launched in October 2008 as the first dedicated Social Media for Beginners training course in the UK.
It has proven incredibly popular, with academics, marketers, PR companies, photographers and even non-profits attending over the course of the year.
Attendees even requested a more hands-on follow up course, the Learning Social Media By Doing Course which has since been developed.
Here’s some of the fantastic feedback the Social Media Starter Course has received:
Next Speaking Engagement: Social TV Forum, RIBA, London, 28th September
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events
I’m going to be speaking at the Social TV Forum at RIBA, London on Monday 28th September.
Billed as a discussion on the “Future of TV and Social Media”, the Social TV Forum’s agenda is to look at the challenges facing the emerging social TV marketplace.
The speakers at the Forum include Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor, Education, Channel 4; Anthony Rose, Controller, Vision & Online Media Group, BBC; Kate Bradshaw, Head of Online Commissioning, ITV; Kelly Sweeney, Head of Original Productions, Bebo UK and Damien Byrne, Head of Entertainment, T-Mobile.
Social Media represents the end of Search – The Debate Rages On At #smc_mcr
Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
As promised on Twitter, here come my notes from last week’s incredibly enjoyable Social Media Cafe Manchester event.
The Case for Open Source in Enterprise aka What I Learnt at WordCamp UK 2009
Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired
Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder & Chi-chi, WordCamp UK 2009
After two frenetic days at Arts Council England’s Art of Digital London event in Sadler’s Wells which I liveblogged as part of the AmbITion content team, I was in welcoming Wales for WordCamp UK 2009.
Skillset North Launch and a Quick Update on 7 Wonders in 7 Days
Posted on 05. Jul, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired
I’m finally blogging my notes from a couple of key industry events I attended in the last month. This post is about the launch of Skillset North. I will blog about developments at MediaCity:UK in a follow up post.
7 Wonders In 7 Days Live Music Gig: Hungry Pigeon Festival
Posted on 25. May, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events
Hot on the heels of my announcement of Real Fresh TV’s social media charity engagement of the year: 7 Wonders in 7 Days, comes the first live music event in aid of the charity fundraising trip planned for September 2009.
For those of you who are unaware, 7 Wonders in 7 Days is an epic adventure trip I’m embarking on jointly inspired by my grandmonther’s funeral in February and Channel 4’s brilliant Secret Millionaire programme.
The First Learning Social Media By Doing Course – A Success!
Posted on 19. May, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Social Media Strategies
By all accounts, yesterday’s first Learning Social Media By Doing Course was a success!
Put on specifically in response to requests by attendees of the Social Media Starter Course for a more practical follow-up course, the half-day workshop was aimed at giving beginner to medium level social media users a hands-on introduction to social media tools.
And hands-on they got!
