Tamara Littleton speaking at Social Media in Business

Just to let you know that on 21st May 2010, I'll be in Richmond, London, speaking at the Social Media in Business Conference.  The theme for 2010 is Community Relations 2.0.

Billing itself as an an agile progressive Web 2.0 style conference (where the conversation  and interaction begins well before the event day, and continues long after), the conference examines how social media culture and social networking platforms are having a major impact on business communication, practices and processes.

How can these tools be utilised, how can you employ strategies within your company to increase profitability, sustain reputation and empower your employees to be brand ambassadors? Indeed should you employ internal social networks within your own organisation as a means of facilitating a sharing community amongst your employees, or should you use public open platforms?

 The conference aims to provide an outstanding and in-depth educational experience.  The speaker list is certainly impressive, including representatives from Facebook, Paypal, Gumtree, Sun Microsystems - and of course I'll be adding my insights too.


I'll be talking about 'The Rules of Engagement':  Engaging with consumers through social media platforms is far from a one-size-fits-all solution. How you should participate will vary according to your aims, resources and audience, but in order to really develop a community, you will need dedicated resources and support from within your organisation ...

We've got a promo code: pop in smibemod when booking to get 15% off ticket price.  It looks like being a really good neworking event, as well as potentially very informative.  If you're planning on being there, do tweet me @tlittleton, and we'll try to meet up.