Monthly Archives: February 2012

My Agenda for Social Media Week London 2012

9, February 2012

It seems that with all the sponsorship money that’s gone into Social Media Week, one of the key features that was missing from the main website, is the ability to be able to share ‘calendars’ or schedules with friends/other participants.

Social Media Week London 2012

Register for Events At Social Media Week London 2012

Having buttons, that allowed you to post the event you were attending to Lanyrd, or Plancast would have solved that problem, but it seems that even just getting a calendar of all the events you’re attending wasn’t high on the list of priorities of the developers this time round..

Ironically, because certain events require registration via third party websites, I wasn’t even able to compile a list of all the events that I was attending, just by registering through the website. Instead, I need to ‘favourite’ the events I’m planning on attending, in order to be able to see a single list on the Social Media Week Website, of everything I want to attend (and as far as I can tell, there’s no simple way of pulling that content into a Google Calendar), so I just went ahead and manually added each of the events I’m planning to be at into a single calendar, which I’ve shared below.

Just one small note, for the website developers for next year, when you hit the ‘Google Calendar’ button on any event, the event that gets added uses the URL of the event as follows:

http://socialmediaweek.org/?event_id=1133

(which doesn’t work).

The correct URL needs to be

http://socialmediaweek.org/event/?event_id=1133

(note the extra /event/ which is missing in the url that pre-populates the Google Calendar.)

It’s probably too late to fix this now, but perhaps next year, you could at least get that part working properly? Or even let us share our calendars publicly, to friends that haven’t registered on the website?

Anyways, here’s my schedule during Social Media Week London 2012 (however, bear in mind, that like with all things social, this is subject to change at a moments notice) :

By Farhan Rehman | Posted in Social Media Week | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Social Media Week London – Feb 13-17, 2012

9, February 2012

So next week is Social Media Week, in London, and it seems that this year there are even more talks, events, and sessions being run, than last year.

If you haven’t yet decided what you’re going to attend, I suggest you head on over to the calendar for London’s Social Media Week activities and pick out some interesting sessions that might be of interest to you.

I’m planning on attending a few events each day, and this year, I’ll do my best to blog about the different talks I attend each day. (Rather than live tweeting out of all the sessions, as I usually try to do :)

Partly because it then means I don’t need to rely on or worry about the Internet connections at each of the venues, and partly that means I get to document all the pertinent and interesting points that are made during each talk, and then capture them to remember, and share.

Historically I’ve been a much more active advocate of tweeting out from the events, and sessions, but with the amount of problems I keep experiencing whenever I try to use Twitter at an event, or in a live streaming environment, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to use twitter in a meaningful way right now, is through the occasional tweet, not the second by second blow by blow account of what’s happening – as apparently Twitter doesn’t like that, and ends up blocking me, or stalling on me whenever I do that!!

Look forward to seeing many of you at various events around town, over the next week!

By Farhan Rehman | Posted in General Advice | Tagged , | Comments (0)