This February, Social Media Week , SMW14, took place in eight cities around the globe with more than 25,000 attendees taking part! The global theme: global theme, The Future of Now: Always On, Always Connected, with us (Social Media Week) and Nokia. The video below shows some of the highlights. The event is huge, almost overwhelming in choices (in NYC at leat), so SMW has a cool app to help you navigate. I attended sessions in NYC. SO interesting and useful! If you didn’t make it to social media week this February you can experience some of the sessions on SMW Live, and they are well worth your time to view. Courtesy of Nokia: socialmediaweek.org/live
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Rundown of Social Media Week February 2014
Founder,
Zipcar and Buzzcar
Robin Chase
#SMW14 GLOBAL RECAP
Founder & CEO,
BuzzFeed
Jonah Peretti
danah boyd
Author & Entrepreneur
THE FUTURE OF NOW
Senior Research,
Microsoft Research
PARTICIPANTS
Powered globally by Nokia across eight cities this past February, we examined the tools, technologies and emerging trends that are changing the ways we work, live, and create in an always on, always connected world.
Chipotle launched “
Farmed and Dangerous
,”
Social Mentions
/ City
HAMBURG
COPENHAGEN
BARCELONA
BANGALORE
LAGOS
MILAN
TOKYO
4,000
25,000
34,000
16,000
41,000
12,000
CITIES
OVERALL MENTIONS:
238,000
PRESS
4100
Press & Blog Mentions
2 Startup Pitch events
in Lagos and New York, providing entrepreneurs a better chance to succeed
Percolate
launched their Employee App
SMW launched our first book,
Lagos hosted an
epic beach party
Milan tackled the “
Smart City
”
Bangalore did a special screening of “
Girl Rising
”
Poetry met Twitter in Barcelona with
Haikurts
Prodigy Network announced
New York’s first crowdsourced designed hotel
Founder,
iRokoTV
Jason Njoku
MakeLoveNotPorn
Cindy Gallop
& Milan
Al Jazeera,
The Stream
Femi Oke
Lagos
Social Media Manager,
Policia NacionalCarlos Fernandez Guerra
Barcelona
CEO & Founder,
Donors Choose
Charles Best
Artist
Archana Prasad
Bangalore
Director,
Change.org Spain
Francisco Polo
Barcelona
YouTube Sensation
Shraddha Sharma
Bangalore
Founder,
Upworthy
Eli Pariser
Founders,
300
Kevin Liles & Lyor Cohen
Lagos
Founders,
WeFound.org
Val Racheeva and Franziska Nylen
Hamburg
Artists
Karl Wiliam & Tais
Copenhagen
SPEAKERS
900
EVENTS
FACTS &
FIGURES
5000
REACH OF
436MSeth Godin
NYC
GLOBAL
45,000
NEW YORK CITY
1700
GENDER
39%
61%
SPEAKERS
STREAMED VIDEO
HOURS
FEBRUARY 17-21
19,000
Wearable tech
was a major theme in both New York,
and explored how we can empower women in developing nations
Upworthy
announced a major change to their platform with the community deciding what content gets shared
SMW Hamburg sent our
Social Traveler
On! The Future of Now
on a
330 km
bike ride to Copenhagen,
hosting our first Wearable Fashion Show, and in Milan,
with
Neurowear
showing off the latest devices.
TWO NOW Studios
, bringing in Vine artists
from around the world to teach tricks and techniques
NOTABLE
EVENTS
