The 2013 festival ran from 22-28 April across 27 Cities, hosting over 190 events and attracting over 20,000 participants globally.

Find out more at www.bigdataweek.com

Our friends at Bloom agency have produced this fabulous inforgraphic and whitepaper for the media140 team to illustrate how many conversations and connections where made during the festival.

Roll on #bdw14!

Big Data Week is one of the most unique global platforms of interconnected community events focusing on the impacts of Big Data. This infographic was created by Bloom Agency on behalf of Big Data Week using data supplied by DataSift and using Bloom Agency’s earned media planning tool, Whisper.

Click on the image above to find out more about the global conversation surrounding Big Data Week.

This coincides with Nancy Georges joining the Sydney team as our Community Manager. Nancy will be heading up a number of new projects and initiatives in 2013 – you can follow Nancy at @NancyGeorges or get in touch at nancy@media140.com

See the next three months at a glance and pre-register.

Fancy being part of the media140 Australia team? We’re on the look out for a part-time event and community manager to help us develop our Australian community. Over the next 12 months we want to grow our presence in Sydney and Melbourne through meetups, events and other fun stuff – and we need your help!

You’ll need to be passionate about the web, technology and people – love bringing people together to inspire, educate and wow them. And of course be based in Sydney and/or Melbourne, have an active social media presence and have experience of running great events.

We’ll be expecting you to

• Support the organisation of local events and meetups in Sydney and Melbourne – finding speakers, liaising with venues and working with local hosts.
• Help develop cutting edge editorial themes to address the needs of the local Australian media, technology and business communities.
• Do a little blogging to help raise awareness about our activities in Australia including inviting guest bloggers to contribute where appropriate.
• Use social media to help keep things lively and relevant across our Twitter, Facebook, AudioBoo, Instagram presence.
• Maintain and grow some of the relationships we have with the mainstream media organisations in Sydney – helping to get the word out about cool stuff we are doing. As well as developing new media contacts to help grow the brand
• Contribute to the newsletters we send to our community
• Work with other members of the media140 team in Australia, Spain and UK – helping to grow what we do in a consistent with a joined up philosophy.

In a nutshell we need someone who is a juggler and multi-tasker, well organized, creative, independent, a natural communicator with a positive and enthusiastic outlook.

The role is only part-time with a maximum of 20 hours per week and would suit someone who is able to work flexible hours with occasional travel to Sydney and Melbourne. Salary is negotiable, but will include an element of revenue share from the events.

Sound like something you’d be interested in?
Email hello@media140.com with 100 word cover letter, your CV or whatever you think best shows off your skills as a Community Manager.

This year media140 has partnered with the Guardian Media Network to produce The Big Data Week; the global events community platform, to produce and co-ordinate the week long festival of activities and events.

Big Data Week is one of the most unique global platforms of interconnected community events focusing on the social, political, technological and commercial impacts of Big Data. It brings together a global community of data scientists, data technologies, data visualisers and data businesses spanning six major commercial, financial, social and technological sectors

• Media and Entertainment
• Health and Science
• Financial Sector
• Retail and FMCG
• Public and Government
• Social and Personal

The week connects a number of global cities through locally hosted meetups, events, networking functions, data visualisation demo’s, debates, discussion and hackathons. Events are designed to provide a platform for debate, discussion, education and inspiration – organised by people who are passionate and knowledgeable about data across our five sectors. Anyone is able to host and create an event during Big Data Week, making the platform completely open and community driven.

London is the host city for 2013 with others being announced in the coming weeks. To find out more, nominate a city, host an event or sponsor the festival visit www.bigdataweek.com

Founded in 2011 by Stewart Townsend as way to unite the global data communities through series of events and meetups. It has quickly become the ‘go to brand’ for a global perspective on Big Data and emerging trends. Big Data week is hosted across a number of major city hubs reaching across Europe, Americas, Australasia and Asia Pacific.

“I created Big Data Week to unite the global big data community, as a co-organiser of London based Big Data events I felt there was a gap between meetups across not just London but the globe, communities tended to stay in one part of the Big Data landscape and thus the idea was born to bring together all the communities and networks across a week of events”
Stewart Townsend, Founder Big Data Week

“The role of data in business, health, science, technology, retail and entertainment will be a key differentiator for the organisations that succeed in the next digital wave. Big Data Week educates and creates new opportunities for organisations of all shapes and sizes in understanding what big data can do for them now and in the future. media140 are very excited to be able to participate in this global initiative”
Andrew Gregson, Founder media140 Worldwide

How I get involved as a sponsor?
Big Data Week has a unique global local opportunity for sponsors wanting to put their organisation into the heart of our community. We have a number of packages to suit global and local hub partners.

Please get in touch with ande@bigdataweek.com

How do I get involved as a event organiser?
Easy, just visit www.bigdataweek.com/organise and register your event. We’ll add you to the festival calendar and you’ll be featured on the city page.

Big Data Week Contacts

Download this media release as a PDF

Any of the media140 workshops can be delivered 'on site' to your organisation within the UK and Europe. Contact media140 for more information.

Laurel Papworth
Author, ‘Social Media Revenue’ and FORBES Magazine Top 50 social media influencer

What happens when industries shift from “service” to “platform”? When Facebook becomes a bank, when the eBay model becomes the standard business model for the future? This presentation takes you through all 22 different business models including Etsy making 1 billion dollars last year from craftspeople to Kickstarter and Pozible models.

Download PDF presentation pack

Michael Walton, Executive Director Consumer & Business Intelligence, Nielsen Pacific

The consumer research behind the key trends driving buying and mobile behaviour: how and why is the internet, social media and multi-screen viewing transforming and revolutionising consumer buying behaviour.

Download PDF presentation pack

Joanne Jacobs, COO 1000heads

International speaker and COO of Word of Mouth firm, 1000heads, Joanne Jacobs will illustrate the impact of mobile consumer behaviour and she will use case studies in social business practice to demonstrate the value of deploying stories and influencers to engage with business audiences.

How mobile changes consumers into active communities and advocates

Download PDF presentation pack

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Venessa Paech, Lead Community Manager, Community Engine

Social commerce is the uncharted frontier of the social web, but it’s coming sooner than we think. How can community strategy and management take things to the next level – from ‘click to buy’, to ‘recommend’ and beyond?

Download PDF presentation pack

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Slide Packs DigitalFutures Perth 2012

David Stewart, Wrays
Mobile and digital privacy: What you shouldn’t know about mobile users

Brett Sandler, Groupon
Coupons and their role in mobile marketing

Jim Wyatt, GM, Department of Commerce, WA Government
Digitising your way to an economic future

Amanda Kendall, Blogging and Social Media Consultant
Let’s blug: Putting the “u” in blogging

Andrew WoodWard, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University
Help! My computer is attacking me!

Clare Lloyd, Lecturer, Dept of Internet Studies, Curtin University
Hearting your teenagers mobile phone (as much as they do)

John Cooke, Social Media Strategist, PPR
Building your personal reputation and brand online

Laurel Papworth, CEO Community Crew
The Future of Money

Matthew Allen, Head of Department, Internet Studies, Curtin University
Learning beyond the classroom

Stilgherrian, Writer and broadcaster
Destroying your world, tweet by tweet, like by like

Tama Leaver, Lecturer, Department of Internet Studies, Curtin University
How Will Young People Deal With 5000 Baby Photos on Facebook?

Thomas Tudehoope, Managing Director, iSocial Consulting
The one billion user shopping mall – Facebook

Venessa Paech, Lead Community Manager, Community Engine
Communities aren’t just for crowds
Kids know more than you (they just don’t know it yet)

Kim Mettam, Webgate
Beat The Hacker!

Brendan House, Chirp
When online is GOOD for offline

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You can catch most of the sessions from the three days on the the iiNet Livestream recordings or on our Vimeo channel from the event.

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If you have been following our activities in April you will seen media140 hosting two concurrent events 15,000km apart: Our three day digital festival in Perth, Australia and our journalism workshops at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy (#ijf12) – it’s been a busy month for us!

The Journalism Festival is hosted every year in Perugia, capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, now running in its sixth year. With over 300 speakers, 40 workshops and in excess of 20,000 visitors it’s probably the largest single journalism event in Europe. Our workshops spanned news gathering, entrepreneurial journalism, mobile news gathering and community management – we have brought together the highlights for you.

See all the workshops from the festival.

Jess Hill The Global Mail, Middle East correspondent, @jessradio

Sourcing global stories through social media On platforms like Twitter and Facebook, journalists can now find witnesses and sources for almost any major news event. But how can you be sure that their information is reliable? In this workshop, you will learn how to find information and sources on social media, who and what to avoid, creative verification techniques, and how to promote your story once it’s published.

 

Guy Degen Videographer @fieldreports

Using a mobile phone for reporting A mobile phone is an essential reporting tool for journalists. Find out about the best apps and workflows for producing digital content on the road.

 

Claire Wardle Global Advocate, Storyful @cward1e

How to use social media to build audiences and create community The majority of news organisations now understand the power of social media for driving audiences to their output and most have twitter accounts and facebook pages, and encourage their journalists to do the same. The majority however are not using them effectively. Rather than seeing social media as either an information source or a broadcast channel, we will discuss how successful community building initiatives can create incredible content as well as effectively engage existing audiences and connect with new audiences. Delegates will develop new ideas and strategies for current projects and campaigns.

 

Adam Westbrook Multimedia producer @adamwestbrook

Entrepreneurial journalism: reinventing the business of news As the traditional media is forced into cutting jobs and content, more journalists are looking for other ways to practice their craft, and audiences are moving with them. In this workshop Adam Westbrook will talk about the growing area of entrepreneurial journalism: using the the flexibility and low cost of online publishing to build new products, develop new communities and create small nimble businesses which make profit. Through examples of successful new businesses and practical advice, Adam will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of entrepreneurial journalism, what makes a good business idea and how to create intentionally small and successful businesses. This session is perfect for individual journalists with an idea for a news product, or freelancers looking to grow their business.

To find out more visit www.journalismfestival.com

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media140 will be participating in the ‘Statistics Extension Workshop’ at Idescat, Barcelona on the 18th May – curating a workshop entitled “The New Data Journalism”, presented by former media140 speaker Carlos Alonso.

The event is aimed at media professionals who share the difficulty of explaining the complex situation of the present day society, with so many names, indexes, percentages and data that are so hard to interpret. Idescat is aiming to provide the tools to help with this understanding, broaden perspectives in the possibilities of new technologies and collect professional views on the problems with communicating statistics to the general public.

With an increasingly connected society generating vast amounts of data, journalism has a relevant role in it to work, interpret, and convey the stories contained with the broad sets of raw data. The media140 session Carlos Alonso will take the participants through the journalistic process, outlining how to work with data and exploring the types of relationships, patterns, trends and anomalies that can be identified.

Carlos Alonso, is a journalist and communications specialist ‘online’ and cofounder of BCNMedialab. He writes about media and journalism in astillero.org.

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The Statistical Institute of Catalonia (Idescat), in collaboration with the Catalan Society of Statistics launches the Extension Conference Statistics for professionals from different fields in which to understand and interpret statistics can play an important role in giving value to the information they provide.

To find out more visit http://www.idescat.cat/ – site in Català, Castellano and English

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media140 will be heading to Red Innova in Madrid – 14th and 15th June for the international gathering on innovation, internet, creativity and entrepreneurship. It’s a leading digital event exploring how digital is changing society and a great opportunity to ‘network’ and meet international leaders in technology, innovation and the Internet.

Attended by more than 2,000 people across Europe, Latin America and the United States – participants will have a wide variety of opportunities to learn from presentations, take part in workshops, see leading edge business projects, hear about international success stories, discover investment opportunities and see the work of the leading international application developers.

Red Innova attracts a wide range of speakers from young entrepreneurs to multinational leaders, through hacking, innovators, communicators, technologists, scientists and designers.

Confirmed keynote speakers for the 2012 edition include

• Jessica Powell, Badoo’s Business Development Director
• John Lunn, Paypal’s Innovation Director for EMEA who will present on mobile technologies in commerce and payments
• Aitor Grandes, the founder and CEO of 24symbols, who will focus on digital books
• and Emilio Juarez, Global Head of Sales and Marketing for HP 3D printing will discuss the “spotify of the books.”

See all the speakers at Red Innova

There’s also a “Developers Day” focused on a more practical approach sharing knowledge with other developers and security experts including well known experts such as Chema Alonso. Whilst the Open Talent contest, which has received over 500 submissions, will seek to award investment opportunities to the most talented innovators and creative entrepreneurs in the digital economy.

media140 is a media partner for the event, if you have time for a trip to Madrid in June we recommend you register for Red Innova. Use ‘media140‘ as the promocode when you register and save 20% on the ticket price.

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