I'm in Sydney for the Social Business Summit organised by Headshift Australasia. Following an insightful introduction to Social Business by Jeff Dachis, I brought things back to earth with a set of case studies demonstrating some of the opportunities we see for businesses that embrace social business. Here are my slides:
Earlier in the week I also stopped by the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (iGEA) and popped over to Canberra to help run a "Online Engagement Masterclass" for the public sector. Tomorrow I'm stopping by the Sydney office of a UK based Headshift client and after that I intend to sleep - it's been an exciting, but totally exhausting week!
Australians trust the ABC more than its commercial rivals, while supposed ''old'' media such as newspapers, television, and radio fare much better than the internet, a survey of attitudes to media has found.
Guy works for recruitment firm. Adds leads to his linked in. Goes off to open his own agency. Who owns his linked in data? His old employer says they do...
Over the next two weeks, we will be undertaking a joint project with Global Voices , an online community that reports on blogs and citizen media, as part of the BBC's SuperPower season , which focuses on the power of the internet. Each day we will be liaising with Global Voices editors and selecting from the reports of their 200 bloggers and citizen media commentators across the world, to complement our news stories.
Robin Hamman has over ten years experience devising, implementing and managing social media projects, particularly within the Broadcasting and Media sector.
Robin recently joined Edelman (London) as Director of Digital. Robin was previously the Head of Social Media at Headshift and, before that, the Head of Blogging at the BBCwhere he also worked on a wide range of other social media projects. Robin was also previously an Executive Producer at Granada (ITV) and Communities Evangelist at Talkcast (mobile).
Robin is also a Non-Residential Fellow at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Journalism at City University, London.
The thoughts and words expressed here are Robin's own, and not necessarily shared by his employer.
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