Social Media Week Recap
Are you social? Do you enjoy media? Do you sometimes slab your week on to your media to make social toast?
If the answers are all “aye, ah do” then you must have been part of the super hawt bitches that took part in globalised social media week last week, the week of social media weaknesses and tech ampgasms brought to you by PEPSI!!1 (Ain’t it great when you can get a sugary sponsor to chip into your social media freak week?)
The aim of social media week was to get a bunch of NFPs and NGOS into a room and be intensively talked to by big brand sponsors and social media hotshots (defined by their faces and their shoes)
The BBC used Social Media Week as an opportunity to hold a tweet up for all the lovely people who work at Radio 4. Radio 5 wanted a piece of the action but as social media week was seen as a “safe space” for the Radio 4 dudes and dudettes, 5 live chaparatis decided to hold their own back channel to the back channel of the back channel of the mainstream public service broadcasting units. Word on the stream is that they discussed hot topics such as arts, and arts and tech cross over and how the art tech iphone cross over might affect the future of journalism and free wine tasting events in the future.
There was a little bit of drama when somebody who followed a member of the Radio 4 team on twitter thought the tweet up was for anyone on twitter - NOT those who owned the rights to social media week or had security access to broadcasting house- and had coughed up the 600 quid suggested donation for the privileged media pass. In the end, the personal network of micropayments all “chipped in” to send their favouritist twitter person to the ball after all. The power of crowdsourcing, eh?
