We’ve been working with PRWeek and BrandRepublic to produce a virtual conference of the very best bits of two conferences on PR and social media. Check it now at Socialmediastrategy.tv

Video and slides from presentations by speakers from facebook, Vodafone, Eurostar and more big names are all online for free viewing now. The presentations cover issues such as crisis management, reputation management, the role of content, measurement tactics etc. Hopefully lots of good stuff for your viewing pleasure!

The hastag was #prdigital if you want to post any comments.

Kinura filmed these events and built the site with all it’s rich media elements and social media widgets. Hope you like it. :)

Full details on the links below.

No agencies please!

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Account Manager / Marketing Assistant

Will We Ever Meet In Person Again (A Review of Virtual Events)

Following the huge success of FILMCLUB’s first ever live webcast, we’ll be live on 14th July 2010 for a close encounter with Oscar-winning make-up artist Christine Blundell.

Watch the webcast here.

Christine is one of the UK’s leading make-up artists whose credits include Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Junior, Finding Neverland starring Johnny Depp, Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig, The Full Monty and Vera Drake.

The webcast will be live from Central Foundation Girls’ School in Bow, East London, with a live studio audience and questions from schools across the UK via our funky chat application.

Follow FILMCLUB on twitter: @filmclubuk

I’ve been seeing more and more people use Prezi to deliver presentations lately. It’s an inspired alternative to PowerPoint and well worth investigating.

Have a look at this example: Why You Should Move Beyond Slides which talks about how we humans don’t always think in a linear fashion, and about how having ‘infinite space’ to work with can open up creative possibilities, enable you to show relationships and context,  and hide or reveal details (without having to switch back to the ‘normal’ view where you built your presentation which can look very unprofessional or clunky in PowerPoint – we’ve all seen presenters grappling with where things are on the conference organiser’s desktop, or searching back through their slides and having to step through each one in sequence).

We film a lot of conferences and attend them regularly as delegates. I definitely think a new way of presenting is long overdue and am looking forward to experimenting with Prezi. It’ll be interesting to see if it goes mainstream, at the moment it’s definitely going to make you look cool if you use it :)

Follow them on twitter to keep tabs on updates and bugs – http://twitter.com/prezi

I imagine there’s going to be plenty of comprehensive follow ups after ThinkingDigital2010 last week. There’s a good post already here from Michael J Bell (aka digitaljoseph).

I was trying to think how I felt about the conference, still buzzing from it over the weekend, and decided that ‘outrageously uplifting’ was a fair summation. It’s hard to convey the cool atmosphere of the Livecast lounge where I hung out with fellow digerati and even got a free shoulder rub!

You’ll be able to watch videos from the event soon. And the twitter comments are worth a butcher’s if you weren’t there – follow #TDC10.  Also – I’ve uploaded some photos from TDC10 on flickr.

Here’s a few things I learned/realised at TDC10:

I need to play more

You don’t need vast sums of money to create something worthwhile

I have a deep voice, and this is potentially a good thing in terms of ’sound business’ and self-assertion

Visualising data in new ways is revealing, energising and helpful to indviduals and orgs

CAPTCHAs are helping to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows – for FREE

If you get creative (and get off your a**) you can create top notch media using cheap(-ish) kit and ‘amplify’ your message fantastically exponentially with social media

The trivial/inexpensive can have massive power in terms of recognition and customer loyalty

If we don’t have stories life becomes inauthentic

Diamond Shreddies are a genius invention

Also – a few book tips from the speakers:

Pull
Bursts
Predictably Irrational
Obliquity
Nudge

The easiest way to see these books is probably to look at my Amazon Wishlist

So now to follow up on all the business cards I gathered.

And will post as soon as videos go online.

Our friends at muchosmedia have just put a new demo online of EventChat, the app Kinura uses for turning ordinary webcasts into interactive online events.

The app now has social media built in so you can log in from twitter, yahoo, LinkedIn and facebook. Check out the features and admin tools here and see the demo. It’s probably more fun if you get someone to log in and chat with you so you aren’t just talking to yourself!

We have some plans to integrate further with twitter so watch this space. You can now follow @kinura on twitter if you want to keep updated.

Someone asked “What are the benefits of live streaming vs. pre-recorded video”

- and quite a few people have answered, covering pros and cons, interactive options, audience engagement, moderating feedback and so on.

Check it out if you’re wondering about such things!