Social Media Week 2011

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Published on Monday, 07 February 2011 19:09

Written by Lynne Shannon

Social Media Week 2011 is running February 7 - 11, 2011 in various venues around New York City, as well as online. Social Media Week (SMW) is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media, owned and operated by Crowdcentric Media LLC.

Crowdcentric was founded to “explore new opportunities in how we as a society connect and communicate. The mission of the company is to help people, brands, companies, not-for-profits and governments around the world establish deeper and more valuable relationships through open collaboration and social communication.”

SMW has gone from one to many more cities, reconvening in New York, while adding London, Paris, San Francisco, Toronto, São Paolo, Rome and Hong Kong.

And while everyone must register for each event, nearly all events are free (unless otherwise noted).  

This year, In addition to the venues, Content Hubs are hosted by industry leaders across the city, each of which covers one of five areas.  Sessions in each Hub include:

Arts & Culture

• Be Part of a Social Media TV Experiment: Current TV's "Bar Karma," the first community-developed television series
• WikiLeaks and Online Civil Disobedience, hosted by Personal Democracy Forum
• Almost Good Enough to Eat: Food Communities and Social Media, presented by AOL

Science & Technology

• The Internet & Uprisings in the Arab World: Are We Already In A Post-Social Media World?, hosted by Wired
• Research Gone Social: Leveraging the Web to Advance Scientific Discovery, hosted by Mendeley
• Getting to the Meat of the Tweet: Applying Big Data Analytics to Social Media Data, hosted by Opera Solutions

Business, Media & Communications

• Social Media Around the World, hosted by Freddie Laker (Head of Digital Strategy in Asia, SapientNitro)
• WikiLeaks and Online Civil Disobedience, hosted by Personal Democracy Forum
• Pay Attention! Social Listening Done Right, hosted by JWT

People & Society

• Consumer Activism: A New Economy of Social Change, hosted by Purpose
• Citizen 2.0 - Social Media and the Future of Participatory Government, hosted by Reboot
• Tower of Babel - v2.0 - How to Reach Global Audiences With Multi-lingual Video, hosted by dotSUB

Entertainment, Gaming & Sports

• The Dissemination of Entertainment News in Social Media, hosted by THA.i
• Tweet Like the Stars: Celebrities Using Social Media to Successfully Build Their Brands, hosted by BUZZMEDIA
• The Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy of Social Media as Music’s Savior, hosted by BUZZMEDIA

Other sessions around town are:

• Hello? Is this thing on?, hosted by Clear at Hive55
• Social Commerce: Are We There Yet?, hosted by Digitas
• The Emerging Skills of Tomorrow's Journalist, hosted by Mashable at 92YTribeca
• Disrupting Education through Social Media & Technology at 2tor Offices in Chelsea Piers
• TV Goes Social at Cresa Executive Center
• Legal Issues Surrounding Social Media Startups at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP

Social Media Week has hosted more than 2,500 people on the ground, and thousands more participated online where SMW can be followed live on LiveStream.

For more information go to http://socialmediaweek.org.

Social Media Week 2011
February 7 - 11, 2011

Arts & Culture Hub:
Hearst Magazines
300 W. 57th Street / 8th Avenue
Midtown East

Science & Technology Hub:
Google
76 Ninth Avenue, 4th Floor
Chelsea

Business, Media & Communications Hub:
JWT New York
466 Lexington Ave
Midtown

People & Society Hub:
The Paley Center for Media
25 W 52nd St
Midtown

Entertainment, Sports & Gaming Hub:
Red Bull Space
15 Watts St #4 (Thompson St)
Soho

Plus various other locations around Manhattan