After the great success in London in March 2010, the Social TV Forum is continuing its journey to the Asian TV applications and widgets market (www.socialmedia-forum.com/asia) opening its doors at Suntec in Singapore on 22^nd September 2010.

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This year we are pleased to have introduced an advisory board of leading social media experts. The role of the SMWF Asia advisory board is to support us in shaping our 2-day conference agenda, by advising on key hot topics, and industry news, interactive conference formats, viewing speaker submissions, and continuously supporting the conference team so that we can always provide new ideas in the fast moving environment of Social Media.

We’d like to introduce our advisory board members:
-    Dr. Bernard Leong, Partner, Thymos Capital
-    Shalabh Pandey, Digital Marketing Entrepreneur, Singapore
-    Neal Sato, CTO, Mixi
-    Jamshed Wadia, Account and Co-Marketing Manager, Intel
-    Tania Chew, Consultant, Communications & Social Media Marketing
-    Jon Russell, Journalist, blogger & digital media consultant
-    Derrick Koh, ASEAN Communications Manager, Lenovo
-    Nicholas Aaron Khoo, Singapore Tech Blogger, Thinker and Learner
-    Benjamin Koe, Public Relations & Social Media Consultant

We’d like to thank all our members for their ongoing support, to ensure we deliver a top notch conference for our delegates.

To find out more about the SMWF Asia advisory board members, click here

In light of the recent negative publicity and criticism surrounding social media and in particular social networking platforms such as Facebook. It has become apparent that while everyone recognises that Social Networking is a powerful platform to help people and businesses share information and experiences, strong actions and immediate measures need to be put in place across the industry to ensure a safe and secure networking environment.

Social Networking is not a new concept and has been attracting the dark elements of society for the past 20 years.  Through the years Paedophiles and Terrorist organisations have been exploiting the unmoderated nature of chat-rooms and social media platforms in order prey on victims or corrupt opinion. (more…)

Penny Power, Author, International Speaker, Entrepreneur and founder of Ecademy talks about the role of social networks for modern professionals. Penny Power is a published author, a highly engaging speaker and one of the UK’s most inspirational and successful female entrepreneurs. Penny founded Ecademy, the UK’s first social network for business, in 1998 at the age of 33 with her husband Thomas Power.

Penny will be speaking and chairing at the Social Media World Forum event taking place at Olympia, London in March.

How important is understanding social media for modern professionals?

I often think about how executives feel about all the noise going on in the world of social media. The desire to see it as a fad, or as something not relevant to their business must be very strong for some. Many will say, and I have heard it said “oh, that is something my kids waste time doing, I am a busy person, I don’t have time for that stuff”. I wonder if I might have felt that if I had stayed in the old world 12 years ago. (more…)

To be in for a chance to attend the “Must attend” Social Media event of the year FREE, simply take part in our Re-Tweet competition!

It’s Really Easy to Enter

All you need to do is put your Social Media skills to the test and re-tweet our competition tweet on your twitter. Just make sure your tweet contains our Twitter name (@SocialNetworkWF so we can track you as a contestant) and link to this blog post

Tweet – “I am tweeting to win a free pass to the Social Media World Forum #SMWF @socialnetworkWF, http://bit.ly/59jsf1”

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The winner will be selected at random from everybody who sent a tweet following the above instructions.   The winner will be notified by DM, so make sure you follow us @SocialNetworkWF That’s all you have to do!

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We are very excited to have Mark Watts-Jones, Head of Development and Innovation at Orange UK confirmed to speak at the SMWF 2010.

Orange recently announced that Twitter users in Europe will soon be able to tweet to each other via their TV sets while watching entertainment and sports shows, following a     deal between Orange and the micro-blogging service. Under the deal, Orange is aiming to integrate Twitter into football coverage, news, entertainment shows and films. (more…)

The Social Media World Forum Conference and Exhibition, taking place on 15-16 March 2009 at Olympia in London announced new line up of social networks speaking at the show.

The event has also announced a 25% discount for early bird registration until 22nd December. (more…)

We are pleased to announce that Immediate Future have joined  the Social Media World Forum on the 15th & 16th March. Immediate future is at the heart of social media pr, releasing a study of the top 100 brands in social media, and recently using google trends to compare leading social networks in terms of traffic. (more…)

We are pleased to announce that we are offering a huge early bird saving of 25% on all conference passes for the Social Media World Forum event taking place on the 15th & 16th March, at Olympia Conference Centre, London.

Our Early Bird saving can save up you to £340* if you book before the 22nd December 2009! (more…)