Feb 242009
 

frocomm

Sydney Event: Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Read the full program but the speakers are:

  • Brian Giesen, Digital Specialist, Ogilvy PR 360 Digital Influence Australia
  • Graeme Wood, Founder and Executive Director, Wotif.com
  • Mia Garlick, Assistant Secretary, Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy
  • Francisco Cordero, General Manager, Bebo
    Andrew Cordwell, Director of Sales, Fox Interactive Media, Australia and New Zealand
    Brian Giesen, Digital Specialist, Ogilvy PR 360 Digital Influence Australia
  • Paul McKeon, Director of Communications, Deacons
    Steven Noble, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research Inc
    Walter Jennings, Founder, Perception Counsel
    Nick Hodge, Professional Geek, Microsoft
  • Vanessa Stoykov, CEO, Evolution Media
  • Geoffrey Emerson, Director, Digital, ZING
  • Simon Wright, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Whirlpool in conversation and Q&A session with Mark Elliott, GM, MelbourneIT
  • Adam “Johnny Kung Fu” Callen, Director, The Feds
  • Dan Ilic, Producer, Downwind Media
  • Ogilvy
  • Kylie Johnson
  • Tony Keusgen, National Sales Manager – Technology, Google
  • Chair: Ross Monaghan

I’m speaking next Tuesday and Wednesday at Frocomm’s PR & New Media Summit. First up Tuesday.

4.10 – 4.50 Panel session: the new media view

  • How has the digital revolution changed journalism and traditional media?
  • Editorial direction: how is online content different?
  • The role of bloggers and citizen journalism
  • How online news media use SEO to get high rankings search engines
  • What is the opportunity from podcasts and video on websites?

Duncan Riley, Blogger, The Inquisitr
Sam Roggeveen, Editor, The Interpreter: Weblog of the Lowy Institute for International Policy
Laurel Papworth, Founder, World Communities

I’ve got a feeling someone might ask about the responsibility of citizen blogger towards knowing and obeying media laws. Pass.

Second Up: Wednesday

11.30 – 12.30

Workshop 2: The Power of Social media

  • Theme: Create and implement a social media strategy and plan for your issue or brand

Laurel Papworth, Founder, World Communities

I’m going to spend an hour with people building out a social media campaign and highlighting the various elements. A bit more hands on than usual. Though not as hands on as my one day corporate social media campaign course that I’ve been running at the University of Sydney for a few years now, it should still go through the main features of campaigns in the social media space.

Nov 272008
 

Men do deals at Golf and the Footy. We women network in Bathrooms. I met someone (nameless for now, in case she doesn’t want to be known as random bathroom chatterer) from Department of Education in a long long line at Glen Frost of Frocomms PR conference. Well, the line for the loos, to be exact. While we hovered and jiggled from foot to foot, she asked me to do a podcast about children online for parents.From ABC.NET – James (above) is very nice and funny and we did the Podcast in my Sunroom (same one in Good Game TV Continue Reading…

Sep 042008
 

I was in Melbourne yesterday, giving the keynote at Glen Frost’s Frocomm New Media Summit conference. Great crowd, lots of thoughts flying around. Government 2.0 and Public Servants 2.0 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: government public) Basically I went through a few different types of social media networks – blog (content), wikis (collaboration) and so forth. I also included this video of RocketOn to show the Live WebRocketOn – a layer over normal web pages so that Avatars can chat about the news and play with pixel branded products. …and also made mention of non-media social networks Continue Reading…