b.TWEEN09 and WordCamp UK – The Media and Web Conference Season begins

Posted on 26. May, 2009 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Trends

b.TWEEN09 and WordCamp UK - The Media and Web Conference Season begins

Regular readers of the Real Fresh TV blog will recall that last summer I spent a fair amount of time live blogging the b.TWEEN 08 conference.

A veritable cornucopia of digital, marketing, media and future thinking, b.TWEEN08 was a pivotal event for me last year and led to lots of great meetings, friendships and collaborations that have since pushed Real Fresh TV forward.

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b.TWEEN08 – Relegating Conference Q And A Sessions To The Dustbin

Posted on 04. Jul, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired, Legal Issues

A Swarm of Angels

So here’s my rather belated post looking at a couple of interesting breakout sessions at Manchester’s recently concluded  b.TWEEN08 conference.

For the uninitiated, this post is part of a series covering the b.TWEEN08 conference that took place at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry from 18-20 June. Click on the “b.TWEEN08” tag to see all articles in the series.

I’m discussing the conference organizers decision to scrap the traditional ‘roving microphone amongst the audience’ question and answer session after each presentation in favour of distributed ‘break out’ discussions in specially allocated areas within the main conference hall.

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b.TWEEN08 Conference Highlights – Day 2 – 20th June – Part 2

Posted on 25. Jun, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired, Multi-Platform Content

b.TWEEN08 Conference Highlights - Day 2 - Part 2As promised, here’s the follow up to my Day 2 highlights of the recently concluded b.TWEEN08 conference in Manchester.  Here’s what happened on Day 1.

There have been a couple of neat write ups of the conference around the web not least Kaiser Kuo of Ogilvy China’s follow up post about his much discussed ‘Censorship, Culture and Chinese Netizens’ talk.

Kaiser’s talk appears to be everyone’s favourite from the conference: it’s even garnered a mention on Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor for Education & New Media at Channel 4‘s blog.

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b.TWEEN08 conference, PUMA Manchester Exclusive Gig And More

Posted on 18. Jun, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Events, Inspired

b.TWEEN 08 conference, Manchester, UK, 18-20 JuneThings have been a bit quiet on the Real Fresh TV blog as I’ve been quite busy this week attending a couple of rather exciting events.

First was PUMA’s long awaited exclusive gig featuring grime maestros Hadouken! at Manchester’s MohoLive.

I met up with Nathan, winner of the 5 Day PUMA Manchester Giveaway online competition we ran for PUMA at the impressively well organized event and Nathan will be posting a gig review on the site shortly. You can see some pictures he took at last night’s gig on our Flickr page.

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