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It's Alive! Virtual communities, social networks and the new communications paradigm

Type of event:

 

Practitioner Session

Event date:

 

2008-01-18

Event time:

 

Welcome breakfast: 08:30; Workshop: 09:00 - 13:00

Venue:

 

Brussels Central Station Center (former Regus Atrium); 11 Rue des Colonies; 1000 Brussels; Tel : +32 2 517 6000

Join IABC Belgium's Webmaster, Anton Raath, for a hands-on exploration of these latest communications tools.

Which topics will be covered?

1. Web 2.0: the living Internet revealed.

2. Facing Facebook, Making Space for MySpace.

3. Getting down to business: LinkedIn, Plaxo.

4. The specialists: Melcrum and Ragan.

5. The new frontier: Second Life.

6. Social networks for fun and profit.

7. Defining a social networking strategy.

8. The dangers of communicating in a virtual community.

By the end of the workshop you will have:

1. Familiarised yourself with the opportunities presented by social networks.

2. Identified the various pitfalls inherent in social networks and virtual communities.

Biography

Anton Raath is an information architect and web developer with almost 20 years' experience of systems development.

Anton is CTO at (XGM) Marketing, a Brussels-based market research agency. He is also an ardent blogger and spends his free time restoring a windmill in the Flemish countryside.

Price - Members: Eur 175; Non-members: Eur 250.