Wish I could make it up to NYC this week for the inaugural Social Media Week NY! It aims to create an open and inclusive environment offering a series of free events, including workshops and panel discussions, and a platform for individuals, group and companies to organize their own activities. The week’s activities have been designed to bring together the NYC community and draw attention to the incredible talent, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit that continues to grow in this city.

Examples of some of the events being thrown in association with SMW:

FYI’s “Social Entertainment”
Tues 2/10, 12pm-2pm
Your video content is only as valuable as the size and quality of your audience. Social media allows you to grow a dynamic community around your videos and to build your audience and your video views. The panel of experts will walk you through where to start, best practices and success stories to help video content producers and distributors maximize the effectiveness of social media in growing their web video views.

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Fleishman Hillard’s “When Social Media becomes Unsociable”
Tues 2/10, 4pm-6pm
An exploration of online issues management in the conversational era. Topics covered will include Keeping your Ear to the Ground using Monitoring Tools, Preparing for Unsocialable Media, Issue Management & Proactive Customer Service

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Next New Networks’ New Networks Launch Party
Tues 2/10, 7pm-10pm
Making tech funny? Now that’s a reason to party. Just in time for Social Media Week NY, come by and join the revelers at Next New Networks to celebrate the launch of Barely Digital, our latest comedy network brought to you by the creators of Barely Political and Obama Girl. AND we’ve got another reason to party too – we’re gearing up to launch another new network! We’ll tell you about it when you get there.

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Visit Social Media Week NY’s website for a full schedule of events that you can partake in. Kudos to Founder Toby Daniels for a fantastic concept. I will definitely be in attendance next year.