And now for something completely transparent

For October’s CWSMC we had a really interesting guest speaker in the form of Sylwia Presley (Twitter) from NFP Voice. She gave great account about transparency projects in Europe and triggered a fantastic conversation which continued on Twitter. Her presentation is below and there is more on the NFP Voice blog.

We also had a quick chat about it afterwards too.

Sylwia is also organising Barcamp Nonprofits taking place on Sat 20th November in Oxford, so get down there if you’re interested in social media and charities, but not until you’ve registered for…

November CWSMC

We are back in Leamington for Novembers’s CWSMC where as usual it’s a chance to meet other people involved in everything digital and social media.  Feel free to arrange a meeting or use it to find out more about the venue at the Court Street Creative Arches.

Our guest speaker this month is Andy Piper.  He’s been with IBM Software Group since 2001 and is part of the Software Group Development Laboratories and also a key ambassador for IBM’s internal BlueIQ social software community. Andy has been championing the use of social media inside the enterprise for a number of years. He is also one of the founding members of IBM’s Virtual Universe Community.

Andy is probably best known online as a “social bridgebuilder”. His main weblog The Lost Outpost reflects the diversity of his skills and interests: development, design, communications, everything social, community building, marketing, gaming and digital imaging.

He’s going to be talking about  ‘Stepping out of the online echo chamber: how companies can be more social in business and why they should’.

He says

I work for a large organisation where I’ve had a bunch of “social @work” experiences – and where we’ve built a strong social collaboration culture essentially from the grassroots upwards and outwards. In my opinion, organisations need to be more outward-looking… by blocking off the outside world and constructing an “echo chamber”, they will stagnate and lose touch. This talk tells the story of one man’s dramatic struggle to be more social in the face of corporate culture (!!!).

So come on down on Friday 19th November 10am-12pm – for all the latest information follow @cwmsc on Twitter and don’t forget to sign up now on EventBrite

Of course you can turn up on the day, but it does help to plan for the all important pastries.

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