Hi all. Please note due to a mix-up with the events company the CIPR were working with the “wrong” Coach & Horses was booked.
The event will be held at the Coach & Horses just a few blocks over towards Oxford St.
1 Great Marlborough Street, Soho, London, W1F 7HG
Sorry for the last minute change!
Thanks very much to Andy who let us hijack his blog for a shout out to bloggers this week.
For those who aren’t in the know, LondonBloggers.net is for bloggers in London who want to meet/hang out/network with other bloggers. They’re fun little social occasions and often attract some great brands as sponsors.
The events were conceived by and run by Andy Bargery AKA Marketing Blagger. You can find out all about him here.
Cheers Andy!
Filed under: events, news | Tags: events, fundraising, news, Red Nose Day, Twitter
Red Nose Day 09 is gearing up and we noticed a couple of interesting social media outputs.
First off it seems that this time around Red Nose Day has it’s own Twitter stream www.twitter.com/rednoseday2009
Secondly we spotted this interesting blog called TwitterTitters which is
A collection of new comedy writing to be published on Lulu to raise money for Comic Relief. Calls for submissions, publicity and planning are all being done on Twitter.
What other social media efforts are out there around this fundraising event?
Filed under: Analysis | Tags: Black Saturday, bushfires, citizen journalism, hashtag, Red Cross, Twitter, vicfires
tv, the web, the papers. smoke in the hills. it all seems so *distant*. until u see ure first burned out car and wonder if the driver made it out alive 😦 Source: Twitpic
I wanted to post something in the wake of yesterday’s devastating Australian bushfires now dubbed ‘Black Saturday’ although today the fires are still raging and the death toll rising.
I’ve been amazed again at Social Media’s role around a disaster event. This is not virtual rubbernecking. This is people connecting and sharing information and stories in a way I have found incredibly profound. As always the online community has shown tremendous power to rally round a cause and drive positive action, such as donating to the Red Cross appeal.
Filed under: events, People | Tags: bloggers, events, PR, sophie cox, worldeka
Sophie Cox
The other week I nosed through the guest list and became curious about new community Worldeka attending. Well, the lovely Sophie Cox got in touch to tell us more. I suggest, if you’re a PR, you track her down at the event and say hi.
I’ve also spotted invite codes on Techcrunch if you’re keen to try it out and give them feedback.
Ed: What is Worldeka?
Filed under: Uncategorized
The results
Well you are… and then again half of you aren’t. You may have noticed in the sidebar our first poll asking PRs how confident they felt approaching bloggers. The results were pretty split between those who felt a little nervous and the rest having made some good contacts.
Well, hopefully by the end of the event you’ll have met some lovely bloggers and realised that they’re not so scary after all 😉 I’m relieved to see that no one was still scratching their heads unfamiliar with the term “blogger”. Phew!
To see bloggers attending check out the sign-up page.
Blogging seems to be merging the boundaries between PR & journalist. Many marketing departments in organisations have their own blogs while increasingly, individuals with a drum to beat or a strong passion have their own. This, more than ever, illustrates the need for collaboration and communication across sectors. These characteristics are innate to many charities. It’s simply a case of demystifying the blogosphere and providing guidelines on how best to develop these relationships in an online environment.
The philosophy behind social media is ideal for our sector, allowing organisations to create and tap into communities of shared ideas and values. At Fifth Estate, we’re keen to keep members up to speed on how best to work with it as part of a strategic communications strategy.
Worldeka
Wow!We’ve had a superb response from PRs and bloggers signing up to come to the event. Everyone is being so positive and we’ve even had a few requests from non-locals to make sure we Tweet it. [Darika: Any volunteers? As I’ll be speaking for some of it]
Please do keep adding your names to the list if you haven’t already. The number of spaces are just a guide for now and we want to accommodate as many as we can on the night. Oh, and don’t forget to provide contact details or links to you online.
I’m curious to meet the guys from Worldeka which is currently in Private Beta. Are you going to be handing out invites guys? 😉
It’s always a bit daunting when you see your name go out with “specialist” attached to a topic and even more so if that topic is Web 2.0.
Just the other day I had a problem with this very blog and, after consulting a specialist, it turned out to be operator error, in other words I’d accidentally hit the wrong button and broken it.
Learning all the intricacies of building and running a blog will be a process of years for me and that’s just one part of this whole Web 2.0 world. So stretches a whole new media frontier for PR to explore . We know now that how life will be when we get to the end of that vast territory is not the same as the places we inhabit now.
There’s now a date, time, and location for the Fifth Sector Blogging & Networking event in February. We’ve been lucky enough to book the Coach and Horses in Soho.
If you’re a blogger who regularly attends Social Media events in London, then the Coach should be a familiar haunt. If you’re a PR new to all this then you may be interested to know that a whole host of groups have met at some stage at this lovely little pub; London Bloggers Meetup and Tuttle to name a few favourites.
Time: 6.30-10.00pm
Venue: The Coach & Horses, 29 Greek St, Soho, London, W1V 5LL
CIPR Fifth Estate 