Real Fresh TV | Specialists in Social Commerce and Social Media Marketing

Manchester based social media training and implementation consultancy Real Fresh TV has helped Contact Manchester to a UK ‘first’.

Contact Manchester is the first UK theatre to successfully combine activity on Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and their own social network to deliver an international theatre exchange festival.

Real Fresh TV provided website design and development and social media strategy, training and implementation support on Contacting the World, Contact Manchester’s pioneering international theatre exchange project for young people.

After its success as part of Liverpool’s City of Culture in 2008, Contacting the World returned home to Manchester in 2010.  Read our review of the February launch.

The biennial festival brings together young performers in traditional theatre, dance, spoken word and hip hop all aged 16-25.

The participants, representing 15 different theatre companies from 11 countries around the world are twinned together in the spirit of cultural exchange to create brand new performances inspired by each other during the six month project.

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Contact Theatre Manchester's Contacting the World 2010 - A pioneering, international theatre exchange project, supercharged by social media

Just a quick blog post to share a couple of YouTube videos created at Contact Theatre Manchester’s Contacting the World 2010 launch late last month.

I’ve previously written about managing the digital and social media strategy for Contact Theatre on their biennial international theatre exchange festival for young people aged 15-25.

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There has already been much discussion on the web about the incredible meeting of minds that was the first Social Media Cafe of the year last night at The Northern.  You can read Manchester Evening News blogger Sarah Hartley’s 5 takeaways at the Mancunian Way blog which includes links to videos.

The first in the unconference format, myself and all the other speakers were bowled over by the enthusiasm of all who attended.

I presented a well attended Beginner’s Guide to Social Media session, slides after the jump:

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