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Live Blogging: Socitm 2009

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Live Blogging: Socitm 2009

Socitm 2009 re-inventing local public services – radical thinking, practical solutions


As mentioned by Adrian Hancock (Socitm MD) in his blog post on the Socitm blog here. I have been assigned to tweet throughout the Socitm’s Annual Conference taking place on the 11th – 13th October in Edinburgh. Check out Adrian’s overview of what we are planning to do for the event from this excerpt from his blog post below..

I met with Liz Azyan early evening (@Liz_Azyan if you are a twitterer) to discuss how Socitm can best use social media at socitm09 (#socitm09). We will be sending live streams from our key sessions which can be followed on our stream (@socitm) as well as Liz’s own and a site constructed specifically for conference output (www.socitm09.net).

There may be a lot of hype around about the benefits or potential benefits of social media but I am fully persuaded that the concept is ‘going places’ and that we will continue to explore how best to use it to the benefit of our members.

Adrian Hancock (Socitm MD)

So with that said, I’m excited to launch the the Live Blog as of 4pm today to kick off this 3 day event. You can also follow the event through these channels of communication

http://twitter.com/socitm and #socitm09 or the website www.socitm09.net

<a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&#038;task=viewaltcast&#038;altcast_code=2ee8c8cb89″ mce_href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&amp;task=viewaltcast&amp;altcast_code=2ee8c8cb89″ >Socitm 2009: re-inventing local public services – radical thinking, practical solutions</a>

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