Wednesday, October 14, 2009

My talk and photos from the Social Networking Conference in London, UK on Sept. 24 and 25, 2009

I was an invited speaker at the Social Networking Conference in London, UK from September 24 to 25, 2009. I spoke about Advances in Mobile Social Networking, of which my slides are available here for download and also on SlideShare below.

Advances In Mobile And Social Networking Alvin Chin

It was a business conference with many attendees and speakers from industry, I was the only one from research.  However, it was nice to see how other companies are using social networking especially how Facebook is being prevalently used, as quoted by Clara Shih who promoted her book, The Facebook Era, of which I bought and I am reading.  Clara mentions how Facebook and social networking sites are the new CRM, that is where your customers are and so you should utilize them to its full potential.  

IBM gave a great talk on enterprise social networking and how it forms a core in their organization, where employees can use DogEar for bookmarking URLs which automatically propagate to a social media portal that is similar to Facebook for aggregating social media content from all your colleagues and friends within the company.  IBM has been a huge proponent and model for other companies to follow, about how a social media strategy can vastly transform a company to become more responsive and have a better reputation with customers.


Photos from the conference are up here on Nokia Ovi.

It was great meeting with all of you at the conference, please keep in touch with me as gadgetman4u on Twitter and FriendFeed, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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