eOffice Birmingham NetThursday

Thursday 25th March, 18:00pm - 20:00pm

Social Media and Business Profitability

Join us at eOffice for the evening to learn how social media can be used to help make your business more profitable. This event will provide you with the perfect opportunity to learn new skills , meet prospective partners and most importantly create new business.

Speakers:

Jon Bounds :'Listening to the Web" — an introduction to why listening to the online conversation is more important than publishing as a first step into the social web .

Jon is a Social Media Con s ultant who spent nearly four years working for the BBC as technical co-ordinator of the Public Space at BBC Birmingham, where he designed and built large scale interactive exhibits , permanent and themed interactive displays and film – by originating ideas and producing or commissioning material in a variety of media.

David Burden: “How Virtual Worlds can help Businesses Succeed”

David is the MD of Daden limited, he has been involved in virtual worlds since the mid 1990s, having created early spaces using VRML and played in several early 3D communal worlds. David's first virtual home was at Retsmah Crossing in Albecompha World and he spent much of the early naughties hoverboarding off the slopes of Nene's Peak - the giant volcano in there. David has been in Second Life since 2004 where his real-life and SL business Daden Limited helps businesses and organisations explore the social and commercial potential of virtual worlds. David also has a keen interest in artificial intelligence and Daden have an AI platform for use both in SL and on the web. He has also written a best selling science-fiction RPG adventure book!

Gareth Edwards : "Supercharging Your Social Media"

Gareth  is the eMarketing Specialist at The National B2B Centre, will be helping attendees to "Supercharge Their Social Media".  Gareth will be highlighting the lessons learned from the B2B Centre's use of tools such as LinkedIn and Twitter to build its membership, create new communications channels and develop an active members' community.  He will also call on his experience of providing practical eMarketing advice to small businesses to show examples of how companies have used tools and technologies (for instance blogs and Facebook) to achieve success.

The B2B Centre provides impartial advice and support on the adoption and use of eBusiness to West Midlands SMEs.  Gareth has worked in a number of very large and not-so-large companies in a variety of roles.  He has been with the B2B Centre for over 3 years and provides marketing/eMarketing capability to the Centre as well as working with clients.

Address: 

Norfolk House ,Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham, West Midlands B5 4LJ

0870 890 4488

This eve nt is free. Hurry and book your place as tickets are going very quickly!

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