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#Digicitz Topic Survey Result

July 27, 2010 by fridley Leave a Comment

Thank you to everyone who voted for the next topic in our #Digicitz Topic Survey. Was a much tighter race than expected but with 54.22% of the vote, you have chosen our next topic to be…

“Startups, small shops and bootstrappers: the real value in social media and digital PR for small business”

Next step is for us to find speakers. If you have anyone in mind who you have heard speak before, or perhaps has a really interesting story to tell, please let us know. We are especially keen to get speakers from outside of the normal pool, and perhaps a couple of people who have had bad experiences with social media and digital PR.

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Filed Under: General, News Tagged With: #digicitz, Digital Citizens, Survey results

Digital Citizens 4 – Event Details

June 11, 2010 by franksting 1 Comment

Can you create organisational and cultural change to embrace the social media revolution in even the most uptight workplace?

Gavin Heaton, well known as Servant of Chaos, and a Social Media practioner within his own organisation will MC a Panel of experts discussing the topic.

The panel will include Dr. Glen Fuller, Assistant Events Manager at Gleebooks, and Napoleon Biggs the Hong Kong Based founder of Web Wednesday from Fleishman-Hillard.

We expect another vigorous yet respectful debate.

Questions might include;

  • how can you turn a lone cheerleader into a Mexican Wave?
  • how do you get buy-in from the CEO as well as opt-in from the overworked frontline team?
  • Can you effect change on multiple fronts at once, or is it a case of picking your battles?
  • Is using social technologies to share knowledge internally the most effective way to demonstrate their potential?

Feel free to add more in the comments section below!

In addition to our top-notch panel, we are delighted to announce our Charity Partner for this months Event.

This month’s donations  will go to Fictillimanjaro. Evan Smith is climbing Mt Kilimanjaro to help raise funds for the Humpy Dumpty Foundation and is using Social Media to document his efforts

The Humpy Dumpty Foundation purchases vital medical equipment for children’s hospitals right across Australia and now also in East Timor. Check their website to see more about their work.

Tickets for Digicitz 4 are available now for just $10, half of which will be donated to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation.

About our Panellists

Gavin is the author of Servant of Chaos, one of Australia’s leading marketing blogs. He is the co-publisher of the ground-breaking collaborative marketing book, Age of Conversation. Gavin has worked in agencies, but is currently holed up on the client side.

Gavin is an in demand speaker on topics around Social Media, Marketing and Community. Recently has spoke at the following events:

  • MarketingNow! – lead generation, community and social media
  • ADMA – diving into social media
  • AdTech – the relevance of twitter

Napoleon has worked for 17 years in media in Asia, 13 years on the Internet, 4 years in social media, 9 months in Fleishman-Hillard and 2 days in Sydney.

As the founder and host of Web Wednesday, an independent networking community for Asian digerati, with monthly gatherings in Hong Kong, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City, Napoleon is more accustomed to moderating than speaking.

He heads up Digital Integration across Asia Pacific for Fleishman-Hillard and is based in Hong Kong.

One of Napoleon’s key topics will be “Will Social Media Kill the Corporate Intranet?”

Company intranets are typically clunky and badly structured. It’s an ongoing challenge to get users to effectively engage with them, share information, brainstorm ideas, and find relevant content. Will social media become a more effective way to share ideas and manage knowledge within your company?

We are inundated with immense amounts of data every day, which means that we increasingly need people to guide through this sea of information. Computer algorithms no longer cut the mustard. Twitter, Facebook and Yammer are bringing humans back into the fold to act as information filters, as opposed to machine-filters like Google.

Dr Glen works as a production editor for Express Media Group and moonlights as the assistant events manager at Gleebooks. He worked as an academic for a number of years and completed a PhD in Cultural Studies in 2007.

His PhD research was on enthusiasm in modified-car culture and consisted of 1.5 years fieldwork with an online car club and archival research of 30 years of enthusiast magazines. He is currently working on developing the outcomes of his PhD to tackle the commercial challenges of niche/enthusiast media and events.

Glens words of wisdom will include;

  1. Social media as a tool for opening up new markets in order to incorporate social media into the respective business models
  2. Filling Organisational black holes
  3. Facilitating a desire for change
  4. What staffing you might need to make changes
  5. The channels you could use for communicating with customer
  6. Is social media a tool for mining sociality or should commercial interests help build the infrastructure of a scene in order to increase activity and participation?
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Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: #digicitz, Change, eventmechanics, Fictillimanjaro, Gavin Heaton, Glen Fuller, Humpty Dumpty, Napoleon Biggs, Servant of Chaos, Social Media, Web Wednesday

Onward Digital Soldiers

June 7, 2010 by franksting Leave a Comment

As we move forward we know that events is where we take our connection into real space.

So we remain ever so thankful to those who have participated in our events both on the floor, in the interwebz and behind the scenes. Especially our intrepid videoographer, photographer and livebloggers
The Crowd at Social Media for Social Good
The fourth #digicitz event is on next week. So it’s time to look back at our first three events and give thanks again to those panellists and MC’s who contributed.

Our MC’s

Bronwen Clune coralled a great Panel to talk about our Private Parts.
Damian Damjanovski who manfully guided the conversation around the ever intriguing subject of Measurement and Metrics last month and also contributed to Private Parts.
Alan Jones, currently training for the Oxfam Trailwalker, facilitated an excellent conversation on Social Media and Social Good.

Our Panellists

Adrian Dayton, a Social Media specialist lawyer was in town from the USA to give us some interesting insights with regards to your Privacy online from a Legal Perspective. Adrian was accompanied by Renai LeMay from technology publication Delimiter, who gave us a a journalistic view on Privacy in the Digital Space, and Sam North. Sam had a perspective quite distinct from the others due to his lengthy experience in both media and PR – but also as a Social Media holdout. Though we do believe he finally created a Twitter account immediately after the event.
David Hood fresh from battling Palm Oil for Greenpeace, Karalee Evans formerly of headspace and now at Amnesia, Mark Chenery from ActionAid and Nic McKay from the Human Race presented an intriguing night with Alan discussing Social Good.
Last time out Damian kept the questions real with answers coming from Mitch Malone, Community Manager at BuzzNumbers, Marie-Claire Jenkins, Senior Strategist at McCann Sydney and Andrew Hughes,  Senior SEO and SMO Consultant for Reprise Media.

What’s Hot?

We’ve also had Kim McKay from Klick telling us all about what was hot in Social Media at SxSW and Gavin Heaton of Servant of Chaos fame discussing the Age of Conversation and why it is good to talk.

Next Up

Time to announce that Gavin Heaton will be back next week to MC a conversation dedicated to understanding how to make organisational and cultural change to embrace the social media revolution – even in the most uptight workplace!

Don’t Wait!

Rather than wait for your fix, please check in on the videos from previous events, think about the questions you would like Gavin to ask and standby for full panel details throughout the week.
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Filed Under: Commentary, News Tagged With: #digicitz, Action Aid, Adrian Dayton, Alan Jones, Andrew Hughes, Bronwen Clune, Damian Damjanovski, David Hood, Delimiter, Greenpeace, Karalee Evans, Kim McKay, Klick, Marie-Claire Jenkins, Mark Chenery, measurement, metrics, Mitch Malone, Nic McKay, Renai LeMay, Sam North, Social Media, The Human Race

(Video) Metrics, measurement & social media: why should you mind, and why does it matter?

June 1, 2010 by fridley Leave a Comment

Did you miss the #Digicitz discussion  on metrics. Well you are in luck. The video is now available. Our panellists included Mitch Malone, @mitchmalone, Community Manager at BuzzNumbers, Marie-Claire Jenkins @missmcj, Senior Strategist at McCann Sydney and Andrew Hughes,@y0z2a, Senior SEO and SMO Consultant for Reprise Media.

(You may need to use headphones for this video. Sound is a little quiet at points.)

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Filed Under: Events, News, Video Tagged With: #digicitz, Andrew Hughes, BuzzNumbers, Damian Damjanovski, Marie-Claire Jenkins, McCann Sydney, measurement, metrics, Mitch Malone, Reprise Media, ROI, Social Media

An Open Letter about Future Events

May 12, 2010 by franksting 4 Comments
We wanted to share something with you all following another rather successful Digital Citizens event last night.

Thank You

Firstly, as you know we canvassed for donations last night. And are delighted to announce that last night we raised $640 from the attendees.

Humble is a word which comes to mind when we wrote that number.

We thank you wholeheartedly for generously donating almost $1000 over two events. And we want to be sure you are aware about what we are doing with those donations. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: General, News, Social Good Tagged With: #digicitz, Cathie McGinn, charity, Digital Citizens, donation, Gavin Costello, Heather Ann Snodgrass, James Fridley, not for profit, partnerships, Scott Rhodie, sponsorship

“Social Media for Social Good” – Video

April 22, 2010 by fridley 1 Comment

Did you miss out on tickets to #digicitz latest event “Social media for Social Good”? Found yourself in another city or country? Well sit back and enjoy the (much improved) video thanks to @BluntNate

Speakers included Karalee Evans, Mark Chenery, Nic McKay and David Hood, and was moderated by Alan Jones.

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Filed Under: Events, News, Video Tagged With: #digicitz, Alan Jones, Cathie McGinn, David Hood, Gavin Costello, Greenpeace, Heather Ann Snodgrass, James Fridley, Karalee Evans, Kim McKay, Klick, Mark Chenery, mental health, Nestle, Nic McKay, not for profit, Project Toto, Scott Rhodie, The Human Race

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