A good selection of blog postings now in from this week’s first Social Media Cafe event in Manchester. Here’s what those bloggers (AKA the undead!) are saying;
Social Media works when it results in a room full of people talking to each other, but there was something else going down last night throughout the debate which was even more fascinating. People in the room Tweeting away, liveblogging or commenting (sometimes with some acidity) on the quality of the debate. How weird is that? A load of people who don’t know each other but discover each other on Twitter, get together in real life, to stand next to each other Twittering on their phones.
Who cares? It was fun, with some real socialising done too. One greener day blog.
Ideas are already thrown around for the subject for the next get-together, and the whole organisation is a fantastic example of – sorry, folks, getting on an Digital Marketing soapbox for a second – what digital/Social Media tools and platforms can be used to power an event or to create a community, and how. Los cuadernos de Julia blog.
The best bit of the night for me was the networking. Events like this are a great opportunity to informally chat with all sorts of interesting people. I had conversations about topics as diverse as creative ways to arrange screenings of classic films, the pro-TIF PR blitz in Manchester to the psychology behind voting methods in TV cookery programmes! 14 Sandwiches blog.
And I suppose that’s one of the beauties of this networked world we are now involved in, with a blog post or two and a few tweets thrown in, 80 people can be gathered in a room putting faces to avatars. Craig McGinty’s blog.
“So, it’s agreed: both boardrooms and bedrooms will continue to hum with the creation of blogs and interaction with social media tools such as Twitter, but still leaving time to finish assembling that scale model of Concorde. ” PR Media blog.
My favourite question of the night was the one that queried whether the speakers were guilty of using blogging to continue the old ‘broadcast’ model rather than using it as a platform to collaborate with others.
Certainly food for thought and one that at least one other social media practitioner in the UK is asking. RealFreshTV blog.
“The one interesting point to come out of it for me was the shock that corporate people registered when I told them that I worked with children blogging in schools. ‘You mean children can write blogs?!'” Creative ITC blog.
Please drop me a link if you’ve posted on the night.
Dim Sum Digital 