Socil Networks

Input Session 3: Guest - James Cook. Social Networks
For next week's Output Session, address the following question:

* Which models are used for new media 'networking' events?
identify: find some examples in various locations, (eg. Silicon Valley, UK cities); describe them.
analyse: are there similarities between the examples that you've identified? can you generalize them, putting them into groups?
evaluate: in relation to the industry - what are the benefits, drawbacks etc of these events?
* What recommendations would you make for such a networking event in your local area?
evaluate in relation to your own, and local area's requirements
[these will be forwarded to james.]

I have published three differnt meetings, two in the United Sates and one in the UK that i belive show a big influence and similarity when trying to make new ideas come to true. They all have important people giving spcheeches, and trying to convince the young gennerations that are comming out at the time that anithing is possible with enough effort. I aslo paste a link a to speech that Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple and Pixar gave in Stanford University speaking about that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUSJFfY4zHo


Youth Participation
19 June 2007

"Over half of all young people would like their views to be listened to when important decisions are being made (52%)'
- City of Edinburgh Council's Youth Services
Young people's participation in decision making is now firmly on the agendas of governments, policymakers and community organisations. With this in mind, Young People Now's new conference, Youth Participation, will address the theory and strategy involved in this emerging area.
Youth Participation Forum 2007
Encouraging Active Participation & Two-Way Communication
• Ensuring that the right to be heard is always the drive behind participation projects
• How to get the hard to reach actively participating within a safe and secure environment
• How to make best us of youth councils and parliaments to communicate with youths effectively and hear what they really want
Youth Advisory Board Consulted In Programme Development.
Hear Directly From Young People:
UK Youth Parliament
Birmingham MYPs and the Regional Youth Parliament
The Foyer Federation & YMCA
Young Members
Nasar Iqbal, Young Leader in the Community and Community Activist

Confirmed Speakers Include:
Bill Malley, Development Manager, ContinYou

Danny Flynn, CEO, Stoke-on-Trent YMCA Foyer

Tom Wylie, Chief Executive Officer, The National Youth Agency

Krutika Pau, Assistant Director of Children and Families
London Borough of Brent

Sarah Hallot, Participation Manager, Birmingham Children's Fund, NCH

Jim Jenkinson, Regional Executive Officer of Midlands & Metropolitan Regions, YMCA

Alison Straker, Regional Coordinator
Growing Up In The West Midlands

Blossom Young, Participation and Inclusion Manager
London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Sue Thomas, Head of Adolescent Services
Essex County Council

Deborah Absalom, Director of Children's Services
London Borough of Bexley

Michael Evans, Director Civic Engagement, Changemakers





The LatinVision Business Networking Event in New York City
An exclusive gathering of U.S. Hispanic and Latin American professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners in a relaxed atmosphere that facilitates networking

Our mission and Commitment to our Community
Our goal is to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and building of professional relationships within the Hispanic business community. Our events provide a forum for people to meet and exchange ideas in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

We at LatinVision Media believe that education is our nation’s most valuable resource. We also share the desire of successful businesses to help people in the communities they serve.


Who: The Capital Cabal and Dozens of New Media Professionals
What: Monthly Cocktails, Networking and Schmoozing
When: Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
5:30PM - 9:00PM
Appetizers, drink specials and awesome door prizes.
Where: Upstairs at Gua Rapo's private space
2039 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201 - Courthouse area
Gua Rapo
703-528-6500
Use Courthouse Metro - Walk One Block East on Wilson and there you are.
Plenty of metered parking on Wilson, free after 6:30PM. There's some parking behind Gua Rapo. Also, there's a large public metered parking lot on N. Courthouse Road between 14th and 15th Streets, next to the AMC Theatre.

The Capital Cabal monthly New Media networking event series is going strong - join us! We continue to meet monthly to network, share war stories, swap schemes, hire talented professionals, schmooze, invest, find investments, kick-off a job search or just relax with other digerati. Our attendees are Internet savvy professionals from government agencies, political organizations, web-based businesses, advertising agencies, PR firms, not-for-profit organizations, associations and the private sector.

For some honest feeback on our series, click here and check out what the folks at Sachi Studio have to say about 2nd Tuesday.

No reservations are necessary, but as always a quick RSVP email to info@capcabal.net is appreciated, or call 202-236-0344 with questions or suggestions. If you can't make the next event, be sure to join our mailing list and receive updates and announcements of other Capital Cabal activities. We do not sell, lend or rent out your contact information.



13/06/2007 08:30 - 17:15

LSO St Luke's, 161 Old Street, London EC1V 9NG


Standard: £345.00 Reduced Rate: £245.00

Yes, it's that time again - NMK's annual get-together to discuss the business and digital issues of the day, the year, the age! NMK Forum 07 will act as a melting pot of the essential strategies for commercial success in a digital age. Senior executives and decision-makers, creatives and technologists will grapple with the challenges created by digital media, marketing and entertainment. NMK Forum 07 is a unique opportunity to not only hear from the thought leaders in this area, but to network with the cream of the UK's digital media industry.

The event website contains all the details of the speakers and schedule, plus some background to the issues we'll be looking into.

The Issues:

How can businesses now realistically start to leverage benefits from the boom in social networking and user generated content (UGC) sites?
What kind of impact do current trends and innovations have on the media, marketing and advertising industries?
Will UGC stay the distance, or will professionally produced content win out in the end?
Up For Discussion:

Media and Advertising: New platforms for media and advertising - entertainment - video and TV 2.0 - connected consumers and the new metrics of measurement in the attention economy - mobile as a media entity.
Marketing and Brands: Brand strategy in the digital economy - branded media and brand-owned communities - digital marketing, behavioural targeting, personalisation - the future for search - mobile as a marketing platform.
Commerce: Monetising the consumer and the consumer monetising us - rewarding the consumer for attention.
Technology: Web 'X.0' - the UK's top tech start-ups - web models that work - virtual worlds as web 2.0
Mobile: Flat rate mobile data access and the end of the walled garden - location based media - entertainment and games.
Why Attend:

Understand the latest trends in the media and content landscape and hear about the latest innovations
Find new ways to communicate with and reach customers
Get your business up-to-date
A chance to meet, discuss and network with thought-leaders and peers from across the content and media industries.
A Real Forum:

This event will give delegates the opportunity to hear predictions for the future of online content from industry leaders as well as provide a practical basis for discussion and debate. During the sessions you will be able to contribute via live blogging and also good 'old fashioned' face-to-face interaction. NMK also offers you a chance to influence the content of the day by providing a facility on its Forum 07 website to contribute comments, ideas and questions that can be put to the panels. Sponsors and industry partners will be able to 'showcase' their innovations at stations around the sessions...and a cabaret style seating arrangement means that you will be able to unload all your portable technology (!) onto the table in front of you and to arrange meetings over lunch and during breaks. This will be a highly inspiring day for all.
Speakers:

Jyri Engeström is co-founder of jaiku.com, a mobile docial software startup. He is also Founder and Vice-Chairman of Aula Network, a nonprofit to advance the vision of a creative society. Jyri incubated start-ups at Tera Group, a venture capital partnership, and co-founded ShiftControl, an online recruiting company based on friend-to-friend referrals. Read more...
Dan Gillmor is director of the Center for Citizen Media, a nonprofit affiliated with the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School. Dan is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (2004; O’Reilly Media), and is working on a new book about media in the digital age. Read more...
Jason McCabe Calacanis was appointed “Entrepreneur In Action” in December 2006 at Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital firm. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular weblogs that was sold to AOL in November 2005. Jason was named senior vice president upon joining AOL where he later became general manager for the Netscape brand and engineered the re-launch of Netscape as a social bookmarking news site in July 2006. Read more...
Further speakers to be announced imminently so stay tuned!

What are your motivations for making work in this field?

Money?
Fame?
"Contribution to knowledge"?
For the good of society?
Are these motivations apparent in your personal project?

Identify examples of projects that exemplify each of these possible motivations, (and any other that you may think of.)


It's not about money as a main objective, although I'd like to be financially stable and receive it in a long term as a compensation for my work in the interactive TV area.

Fame is not for me... although I do want to be recognised for my work, I do what i want because I like what I'm doing, it doesn't have to do with fame, it's got to do with being proud of my work and feeling that I feel fullfilled with it. On the other hand, contribution to knowledge is something I do like, being part of historyy, even if it's a small thing I contribuate with, really gets me going. I believe that in the TV and Film world, interactivitiy is clearly the next stop to be taken, and I want to be there as one of the main representative figures. I want to give the chhance of making a new way of seeing TV and films that will allow more interaction and as a consequence, a more personalized TV.

As fot the good of society, it is also one of my objectives, improoving the TV and Film world to make a better world, trying to introduuce values that will help the ddevelopment of people in ssociety.

located media

LOCATED MEDIA

Location based media (LBM) delivers multimedia directly to the user of a mobile device dependent upon their location. The media can be delivered to, or triggered within any portable wireless devicet that is GPS enabled and has the capacity to display audiovisual content. The term was jointly coined at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show by Tom Brammar, the then chief Executive of Node, and Martin Hill, an original founder of Sybian, and wireless pioneer.

Media content is managed and organized externally of the divice of a standard desktop or laptop. The device then downloads this formatted content with GPS coordinated tiggers applied to each media sequence. As the location-aware device enters the selected area, satellites trigger the assigned media, designed to be of optimal relevance to the user and surroundings.

Location based media allows for the enhancement of any given environment offering explanation, analysis and detailed commentary on what the user is looking at through a combination of video, audio, imaged and text. The location-aware device can deliver interpretation of cities, parklands, heritage sites, supporting events of any other environment where located based media is required.

The content production and pre-production are integral to the overall experience that is created and must have been performed with ultimate consideration of the location and the users position within that location. The media offers a depth to the environment beyond that which is immediately apparent, allowing revelations about background, history and current topical feeds.

Live updates to the Portable Media Players PMP content mean that attendance at stopping events can converge with broadcast media coverage.

E & PP - New Busineww support from the banks

For our finl Entrepreneuship and Professional Practice Module we made a vsit to the banks around the city centre of Cardiff to find out what possibilities we would have to set up a bussiness after finishing our uni. We arranged to meet early in the morning and we decided to divide in groups of twos and threes. I went with Kirstie and with Rob and we visited three bakns around the area of queens street. The first bank we vissited was Barcalys where we were attended by a ver nice lady that gave us an interactive cd that showed us some possibilities we had, but that didn't really show too much interest in what three young students had to tell her, and very politely she showed told us that we shoud arrange an appointment with one of the directives so he could serves us better.
The next stop was in a small bank in the same street the barclays was, I think it was a swiss and kind of private bank where the girl that attended us seem very please in us showing interst in going to their bank but she told us tat unfortunatly, the person in charge wasn't there at the moment and that if we wanted she could arrange a meeting with him.
The las place we vissited was a financial group in a building where the receptionist told us that they didn't deal with that kind matters.