Farhan Rehman
Creating Order out of Chaos

Reflecting on the global impact of social media and its role as a catalyst in driving cultural, political, economic and social change, Social Media Week’s theme in February 2012 will focus on Empowering Change through Collaboration.

We're asking you to explore how social media is changing governments, businesses, entertainment and...

This session will explore the digital industry’s seemingly insatiable appetite for social media skills. Recent research from  Altimeter Group shows corporations increased their spend on social media talent, on average, by 50% to £180,000. But where are the skills coming from? Academia? On-the-job learning? Is social media baked into the DNA...

It’s Valentine’s day and the billions of people using social media will be connecting, friending, ‘booking, liking, plusing, klouting, IMing more than ever before. How our relationships and our affections are being moulded by the technology? This session will include insight into affection in the age of social media from a leading...

Facebook appears to dominate the battle for everyone’s online attention. As the world shifts mobile, this looks set to increase. Google+ is pulling together the mammoth reach of the big G’s vast services. The rules have changed since the walled gardens of AOL and Compuserve fell back in the 1990s. Or have they? Content owners, publishers and...

Commercial indexes of influence such as Peer Index, Klout, KRED are surging in popularity as big data and algorithms are put to work providing predictive analysis and business insight. At the intersection of the worlds of psychology and marketing, a new discipline is emerging that analyses behaviour and provides actionable insight for...

Join us to hear the latest thinking on social media and our wider social worlds from Google experts, academics and advertisers.  Agenda: 14:30 - Welcome by Paul Coffey, Industry Leader at Google UK (Google+ // LinkedIn) 14:45 - Why the Internet Won't Get You Any More Friends       Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary...

What happens when the behaviours and technologies of the social web start to permeate the insides of our organisations? Whether you call it social business or Enterprise 2.0, the changes inside the firewall provide some of the biggest opportunities for organisations, and some of the trickiest challenges.Social business crosses all kinds of...

Using their trusty DeLorean time machine, Doc Brown, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker arrive in Hill Valley in 2015 on October 21st at 4:29 pm to save Marty McFly Jr. from being set up for a crime by Griff Tannen.

This is not the only notable event of this day:

* The Chicago Cubs win the World Series later this evening in a match against Miami.
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