Social Media Week returns this September to Chicago and other cities around the world, including Barcelona, Berlin, Bogota, Doha, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Jeddah, London, Los Angeles, Torino, São Paulo, Seoul and Vancouver. To celebrate, organizers Crowdcentric are asking people to Instagram Your City. Starting today, anyone can upload photographs that capture the uniqueness of each of the continue reading
Day 2 of Social Media Week happened to fall on everyone’s favorite (or hated, depending on your status) Hallmark holiday, Valentine’s Day. February 14th – a day full of roses and chocolates (or Facebook stalking your ex and sifting through Match.com profiles). The Social Love: The Future of Social Media and Relationships panel of love/dating experts discussed “the modern continue reading
Day 4! This morning I had the pleasure of attending WOMMA’s Talkable Brands Exchange, a day-long Social Media Week event taking place at Google’s office here in Chicago (for those wondering: there were beanbag chairs). The theme of the day: “measuring the ROI of social media and word of mouth.” Some themes that came up: continue reading
Day two of Social Media Week has not fallen short of twitter-ific! There were enough expert panels, check-ins, Tweets, live streams and status updates to keep us all on the edge of our iPad keyboards. Explore Chicago hosted their second in a four-part series titled “Your Photos Tell Chicago’s Story: Social Media Tourism in Action” continue reading
As Social Media Week Chicago begins today we’re honored to be among 12 global cities participating in this international event. The week-long conference is a platform to connect people, content and conversation around current, best and next practices in the areas of word of mouth, social media and mobile marketing. Social Media Week is a continue reading
Read this week’s Smarts for the inside scoop on several major announcements…including Zocalo’s sponsorship of social media week! It’s Official: Zocalo Announces Social Media Week Sponsorship Zocalo and the Trib Partner to Host Social Media Week in the Chi - It’s all over the (local) news! Chi town is our town, and ready to take continue reading