Yes indeed – we’re offering you a way to get a piece of beautiful original artwork and feel good about yourself (oh, yeah, and help other people. That too).
We launched our 1000heads Justgiving page for Haiti at Tuttle a couple of weeks ago, and although we’ve had many kind donations, we’re still eager to hit our £500 target (and possibly more…) In this spirit, artist and Tuttle regular Vince has donated two of his unique pieces, ‘The Battery Charger’ and ‘Joggling the Planet Juggler’, to the cause.
The Battery Charger and Joggling the Planet Juggler
Everyone who donates on our page will be put into a draw and the lucky winners selected randomly. It’s the kind of thing we love – collaborative social philanthropy, with a dash of creativity thrown in – so a big thanks to Vince and please head over to donate.
“Social Media Week conferences take place simultaneously in multiple cities around the world. The aim of each event is to advance the use and understanding of social media in the corporate, public and non-profit sectors.”
From New York to Berlin, San Francisco to São Paulo and Toronto to London, across the globe people are coming together to ‘explore the profound impact that social media has on culture, business communications and society at large’.
There are a couple of other events going on Friday morning, including Reputation Online’s ‘Crisis Management‘ session as well as a special Social Media Week Tuttle Club. However, having seen how quickly the tickets for these events have been snapped up, we think there might be scope for one more thing..
So if you’re free and fancy joining us – you’ll be made to feel very welcome indeed.
The Social Media Week Digest does exactly what it says on the tin; by Friday morning at least some of you would have all had the chance to catchone of the aforementioned fantastic events and this end-of-the-week gathering is your opportunity to come together and share stories, anecdotes and generally catch up on some of the interesting things you’ve seen and done.
Come drink some coffee (on us) and have a chat about where we’re all headed next.
Tickets aren’t mandatory (get yours here), they just help us keep an eye on numbers etc…
See you Friday!
Thanks to ICA London for the super last minute providing of the venue, I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of the place very soon.
If you’re across the channel this Thursday 4th Feb be sure to drop into the first ever Tuttle Paris – that’s an informal social media meetup for the uninitiated.
Our resident French ‘head Lilian Mahoukou is organising the relaxed networking event at Au Pere Tranquille, 16, rue Pierre Lescot,from 6.30 – 8.30pm, so it’s easy to drop in after work. Lilian tells me a diverse group of attendees have already confirmed, with specialists in SEO, Gen Y, coaching, e-business, and corporate and personal branding coming along, as well as the usual mix of bloggers, citizen journalists and just plain interesting people, so it should be a great couple of hours.
Tuttle last week was so much fun, this week we wanted to find a way to say thank you to everyone that came along and made our office such a bubbly place to be on a Friday morning.
Earlier today, we dispatched a crack team of commando 1000heads girls to go out and find the two most cutest and fluffiest fluffy toys they could find.
This is what they came back with…
We’re going to be running a raffle tomorrow morning so you can maybe, just maybe win ONE of the two fluffy things above. I have no preference, well.. I do. The Monkey. But that’s just me…
This morning we had guests in the office. Lots of them. This was due to the fact that today brought the meeting of London’s Tuttle Club to our offices on Great Windmill Street. If you don’t know about Tuttle, it’s “a loose association of people finding a way of working better together both online and off“. And it’s awesome.
To give you an idea of what the morning was like (well, one quite specific take on it) here’s an Audioboo from the inimitable Benny Crime…
For some other takes (as if you’d need them) here is the morning in pictorial form…
(Yes, those are Twitter and Flickr cupcakes)
and via the marvels of Twitter…
So there you go! Got a taste for it? Next week, it’s the same drill again – our offices, 10 -12 - so do come along, and do say hello!
So much for the old on/offline behaviour divide. Social media is frequently positioned as the home of disinhibition and idealisation, a place where we abandon our real selves for posturing and role-playing; but new research from the University of Texas suggests that our online personalities match who we really are.
“The scientists, led by a psychology professor, Sam Gosling, collected 236 profiles of young adults on Facebook as well as a similar social networking site in Germany. ..The researchers expected the Facebook profiles to match an idealized version of the user’s personality. But to their surprise, the online Facebook profile matched the real-world personality test…Dr. Gosling said the findings suggested that online social networks could provide users with an opportunity for genuine social interactions.”
In the comments on the New York Times post, several people point out that Facebook is uniquely ‘realistic’ as it’s built around networks of people who know each other, so that frauds will be quickly found out. However, many different platforms have an inherent ‘reality control.’ Twitter works best as a passion-connecting tool, and effectively maintaining a false or idealised self across several tweets a day would need pretty dedicated attention to detail for little discernible purpose. The most successful or popular bloggers and forum members such as Robert Scoble, Seth Godin and Justine Roberts of Mumsnet have traded on a sense of accessibility and personality. Aspiring opinion leaders follow their lead – its why Tuttles and Twestivals and other offline meet-ups are so popular. And the increasing popularity of video blogging and live streaming makes maintaining an element of online self-fakery pretty damn difficult.
It’s a debate which is highly significant for brands getting involved in social media. If you’re using the opinions of these people as a basis for change and prioritisation, it’s pretty important that they’re expressing genuine approval or grievances. On the other hand, does it really matter if some WOM is calculated to give a false sense of status or personality or to fit in? Isn’t it still influential to the thousands, regardless of its individual integrity?
My experience is that a sense of the genuine still strongly affects our trust of WOM online. While we’ll certainly be generally influenced by the general volume and sentiment of comments, those that touch and change us most are ones where we do have a sense of context – where what we read and see of that person assures us that what they share comes from their heart.
UK based social media types will be familiar with London Tuttle (aka the Social Media Café) – a Friday morning must for socialising and bandying about genius ideas over cappuccino at the ICA (God, we’re all such clichés).
Last year we at 1000heads created its southern counterpart Oxford Tuttle, which has been moving from strength to strength. So we’re delighted to announce that we’ll be hosting the first ever New York Tuttle this Thursday.
Helmed by our NY ‘Head, the lovely Dan Silvers, the event will be a must for anyone passionate about word of mouth and social media who wants to connect with new people, learn, share, or just have a natter. Creative, strategic, development, and geeky types are more than welcome – oh, and regular nice people, too.
Head over to The Ginger Man, 11 East 36th St at 6pm this Thursday 15th October – full details here. This should be the start of something very good indeed.
Our resident French ‘head 
Last year we at 1000heads created its southern counterpart 