Social media experts and social networking enthusiasts will descend on NUI Galway from 26-27 August for BlogTalk, an event to discuss current online trends and future developments in social media. BlogTalk will be held on the NUI Galway campus over two days, and will consist of keynote talks,discussion panels, and plenty of networking opportunities for those attending.
Keynote talks will be given by Stowe Boyd, an authority on social tools; Dan Gillmor, a noted Silicon Valley journalist, author of We the Media, and director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship; and Don Thibeau, director of OpenID, an easy and safe login system for websites used by Yahoo, Google and many others.
Other speakers include Blaine Cook, former lead developer with Twitter and now with BT; Charles Dowd, manager for Facebook’s Platform Operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and Ade Oshineye, developer advocate with the Google Social Web team.
Irish social media gurus will also give talks, including Darragh Doyle, communications manager with boards.ie; Fergus Hurley, founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley startup Clixtr; and Ted Vickey, former executive director at the White House Athletic Center and a frequent speaker on LinkedIn.
“This is a great opportunity to learn from the experts on social networks and to imagine about what is coming down the road in terms of social media,” said conference chair John Breslin. “The schedule has been arranged so that there will be plenty of time to meet the speakers and other like-minded people.”
The event is being sponsored by socialmedia.net, a campus startup company blogging about the future of social media, and the NUI Galway Millennium Fund.
For more information visit www.blogtalk.net.
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