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Chris Brogan at Like Minds

03.02.10 Posted by Jason Tucker in Blog. Comments

This is Chris’ excellent keynote that rounded up the day at Like Minds 2010. Please go ahead and share it using the Share button that’s embedded.

Our thanks again to our partners 2.0 Productions for filming and editing this Like Minds Talk.

Like Minds 2010: That’s What They Said

03.01.10 Posted by Jason Tucker in Blog. Comments

A lot has been written about Like Minds 2010 over the weekend – so we’ve tried to capture a list of it here. This is everything we can find – the good, the bad and the ugly.

If you know (or have written/recorded/photoed) something that is not here, then drop a comment below and we’ll put it up.

Virtual Attendance

Karima-Catherine – Virtual Like Minds

Joe Porrit – Attending #likeminds: A Virtual Experience

James Poulter – Monday Musings: #Like Minds & Social Communications

Kristi Colvin – Live Nude Events… Behind the Scenes of Like Minds 2010’s Online Event

Paul O’Mahony – Like Minds 2010 – What I Thought

From Speakers

Benjamin Ellis – People to People – Like Minds

Gemma Went – Likeminds 2010: A true people to people social media conference

John Bell – Like Minds 2010: A Conference Apart

James Whatley – Likeminds 2010 – The Event

Molly Flatt – Like Minds 2010: Permission To Act

Molly Flatt – Like Minds

Olivier Blanchard – LikeMinds 2010: Clarifying the operational framework of Social Communication – Prologue

Benjamin Ellis – From Business To Business to Person To Person

Chris Brogan – Are We Experience Facilitators

Kevin Anderson for Guardian – Like Minds: Augmented reality, location based services and ’serious’ games

Kevin Anderson for Guardian – Like Minds: ‘Social media can save lives’

Vikki Chowney for New Media Age – The People Are Becoming The Publishers Of Tomorrow

Joanne Jacobs – Like Minds: A New Benchmark for Quality Events

Chris Brogan – What I Told Them At Like Minds

Joanne Jacons – Rampant Self-Promotion

Heléna Holt – Like MInds: Global Thinking, Local Action

Trey Pennington – Like MInds 2010 Interview: B2B Maketing Lessons

Thinking Out Of Like Minds

Graeme Frasier – The Problem With Social Media #1: Free and Easy

Jonathan Alder – Like Minds 2010 – brand lesson #1

Twankers: #likeminds – Twank-Up or a True Social Media Woodstock Moment?

Clarie Rolinson – Twitter: The Halo effect of your marketing strategy

Colin Winstanley – Like Minds Conference 2010

Carl Haggerty – Likeminds 2010 – First thoughts and reflections

Martin Howitt – Likeminds 10 and the death of marketing

Stewart Baines – Likeminds – there’s too much noise

Curious Catherine – #likeminds and the need to wrestle social media from the marketing people

Dangerous Marketing – Time For A Fundamental Shift In Thinking

Sylwia Presley – Think 3

Michael Oon – Was The LikeMinds Meeting A Social Media Event?

Dave Press – Like Minds

Crispin Heath – Was #Likeminds the best gig ever?

Ann Holman – Like Minds raise the games again

James Whatley – Like Minds 2010: If You Do One Thing

Carl Haggerty – Like Minds 2010: Was It Really For Me?

Martin Howitt – Yet Another Like Minds Review

Adam Stone – Have A Heart At Like Minds

James Ainsworth – Like Minds: More Than A Feeling

Daniel Goodall – The Goodwill Hunters

Peter Gold – Social Media Conferences: Time To Stop Talking And Do More Doing

Gary Day-Ellison – Like Minds

John W Lewis – Liking Like Minds

Jonathan Alder – Like MInds 2010 Brand Lesson 2

Stewart Baines – Listen, but don’t forget to act – Lessons from Like Minds

Chris Hall – Like Minds Bring People Together? A Resounding Yes!

Alastair Banks – Like Minds 2010: Never Forget Where You’ve Come From

Alistair Gleave – Chris Brogan and his Trust Agents at Like Minds

Sue Windley – A Newbie View of Social Media: Time For A Fundmental Shift In Thinking

Ed Oldfield – Like Minds 1: Social Media Changing Lives

Ed Oldfield – Like Minds 2: Raising Funds and Support

Ed Oldfield – Like Minds 3: Playing the Games

Ed Oldfield – Like MInds 4: Memorable Moments

Backchannel Stories

Stuart Witts - #LikeMinds and Kind Hearts

Chris Brogan – Are We Experience Facilitators

Trey Pennington – First Video From Like Minds

Paul O’Mahony – Like Minds 2010 in Exeter, UK Hooked Me

Session Reviews

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – Coupons are not conversation

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – rescuing dying business models

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – How can organisations take the first steps towards integrating People-to-People?

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – Integrating People-to-People

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – What are the tactics, tools and methods for engagement today?

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – Emergent Media for person-to-person communication

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – B2B Lunch time discussion

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – What Are the Key Components for Social Strategies?

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – Beware Social Media Tokenism

Adam Tinworth – #likeminds – How Are We Changing The Way We Communicate

Dave Briggs – Clouds and Culture

Alasdair Allan – How Do I Stop Scientists Talking?

Creating A Social Conference

02.23.10 Posted by Scott Gould in Blog. Comments

I think it’s pretty safe to say that in 2 days time, much of the Social Media world will have it’s eyes on Exeter. I’ve been watching the community on the #likeminds hashtag with sheer amazement and still wonder how a relatively small event in a small city can get such attention.

The answer of course is people. It’s people who make this happen – who make ideas spread – and I maintain my stance from last time that really myself and the team ‘are nobody’. We’re no one special. It’s about all of us together – which is why it’s We Are Like Minds.

We’ve worked hard to create an event that emphasises “we”, an event that epitomises the people-to-people theme that we’ve set, and an event that can truly be called a ’social’ conference – a way that adds far more value than the tradition room filling methods.

I wrote recently on how we went about creating a people-to-people conference, and I want to repeat some of those thoughts here before we go headlong into the excitement that we’re all looking forward to.

The first level is person-to-people. The people participating in Like Minds come from a range of backgrounds and have varying degrees of expertise and experience. We needed to provide keynote addresses that ensured everyone – from the novice to the expert – got a concentrated and focussed set of ideas, inspirations and information that they could take away.

We sought the best in people-to-people, and we’re pretty sure our six keynote speakers are among the best in the world.

The second level is persons-to-people. A single keynote speaker brings only one view, and we needed to make sure each session’s topic was looked at from various angles from people who are working day-to-day in people-to-people. We crafted six panels – each with a moderator and three panelists – who could each bring a fresh perspective and ensure that everyone listening could identify with at least one person’s situation.

The final part is people-to-people. The ideals of Social Media are ones of ‘flatness’ and ‘equality’, but the reality is we haven’t seen much of that at the conferences that our team has gone too. Nor do we find that ‘networking’ aids in our relationship building because in a room of 200 people, you tend to group to the people you know.

We needed a way to have intimacy between our speakers, the attendees, and then between each other. Our solution was the Like Minds Lunch Time Talks – something that to the best of our knowledge is the first of its kind.

Hopefully, when people walk away on Friday, they’ll have gotten value from each of these three levels, and built some new connections with new people to go and do new things with.

Our only frustration is that we couldn’t do more for those attending virtually. A live stream and a hashtag just doesn’t create participation, and our vision for the future is one where people can choose camera angles (as if they are sitting at a certain table) and chime in on a particular back channel hashtag for their preferred discussion. Skype and conference calls should be built into breaks, so that whilst physical networking goes on, there can be face-to-face networking online too. And this is something that we also believe should be paid for. Live streams have become common place and mostly valueless – we need to create new ways that have serious value attached to them.

So – I hope this gives you a little more knowledge into the why of Like Minds. For most of you, this isn’t new news – in actual fact, you were the ones that helped us build this.

We’ll see you on Friday.

Scott

A Working Lunch Like No Other

02.12.10 Posted by Jason Tucker in Blog. Comments

Today we’ve released details of our Like Minds Lunch Time Talks, which can you view here.

This idea stems from what we think is a fundamental part of People-to-People. Whilst we have keynotes, panels, endeavours and Q+A, (all of which are necessary and valuable) none of these allow people to talk unrestricted to each other. But sitting down for Lunch and talking over a subject of interest with one of the many inspiring speakers at Like Minds create what Social Media is all about: new relationships.

You’ll be able to register for these from 12:00GMT today. Have fun.

Pre-Like Minds Tweetup at Exeter Northcott Theatre

02.10.10 Posted by Jason Tucker in Blog. Comments

On Wednesday 17th Feb, we’re going to see if Twitter and Theatre mix!

In partnership with Exeter Northcott, we’ve organised a pre-Like Minds tweetup for all the folks in the Exeter and Devon to help you meet some like minded individuals over a drink and nibbles, followed by a nice dollop of culture. In attendance will be our Local Sponsors and some of the panelists from the area, not forgetting co-founder Scott Gould and most importantly, the guys actually doing people-to-people work everyday – you.

We’ll be arriving at 7pm for a drinks reception before the production of Eschara and Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat (details here). Exeter Northcott are providing a special half price ticket rate for all our Like Minds attendees, which you can claim by phoning in advance or picking up your tickets on arrival. After the performance, we’ll be meeting with the director and discussing a little of how Theatre could be the earliest form of Social Media, and what we can learn from it today.

This is all part of our cause to generate £100,000 in revenue for the local economy, and it’s a good to have a local landmark like Exeter Northcott to get behind it. John Holmes (Audience Development Officer at Exeter Northcott) has worked with us on this, so send him a thank you tweet.

We look forward to seeing you there: Exeter Northcott, Wednesday 17th Feb, 7pm. (Google Map below)

About Exeter Northcott

Exeter Northcott offers a dynamic programme of in-house and touring theatre productions, contemporary dance, music and comedy. With a commitment to bringing creative learning into the heart of all our processes, we are working to become an essential part of Devon’s cultural life for residents, artists, new arrivals and tourists visiting the county.

You can find out more about Exeter Northcott at their website or on Twitter.