British APCO gets social
As the debate hots up, among the conversations taking place at
the British APCO Annual Exhibition and Development Sessions 2012
will be the issue of how to manage social media. An innovative
feature, brand new for the 2012 event, will enable visitors to find
out more about social media and how best to implement it.
Social Media Surgeries
Questions about Facebook? Mystified by blogging? Suspect that
Twitter is the best timewaster since Minesweeper? Want to use
LinkedIn more effectively? Then the British APCO exhibition can
help. For 2012, the event has teamed up with specialist digital
consultants Likeaword and Helpful Technology to offerSocial Media
Surgerieswhere visitors can benefit from free, one-to-one tailored
support. Assistance and advice will be available to help visitors
consider how their organisation approaches digital comms, and how
social media can be used in career development as well as in
everyday life.
Social media experts will be stationed at computers with live
Internet access and will be available to talk visitors through
issues tailored to their particular needs and interests. All
questions will be valid ranging from"can you show me
Twitter?"to"how could my organisation use digital comms in a
crisis?"
Appointments at the social media surgeries will be free of
charge to exhibition visitors on both days of the event but
capacity will be limited so visitors are advised to book in early
at the event.
Social
reporting
British APCO will be taking the Exhibition online this year,
with a newsocial media hubdesigned to make it easier to find and
follow the action, whether you're on a smartphone in the main hall
or following from your desk. Social reporters will be working hard
throughout the event to capture the key developments as they happen
and share them with the wider audience in the exhibition hall and
further afield. The hub will bring together video, pictures,
tweets and more, and will provide coverage of some of the main
speakers and Development Sessions.
The organisers anticipate that social reporting will add value
to the exhibition by opening it up to an audience well beyond the
venue, engaging a wider range of people in the debate around the
future of public safety communications.
For further information and to register for the event, please
visit www.bapco.co.uk
Follow the event on Twitter @BritishAPCO or join the LinkedIn
group - British APCO 2012.
For further information on Likeaword, visit www.likeaword.co.uk
For further information on Helpful Technology, visit www.helpfultechnology.com
