I have volunteered to host a Panel at the WxWM which is the West MIdlands equivalent to SxSWi. The ideas is pretty good indeed, a selection of people volunteer to host a panel of 5 minutes about anything they like, as long as it’s related to the Internet or social media. Here’s what Shona says about the panels:

You might want to talk about your latest online project to gain the wisdom of others’ perspectives or share things you’ve learnt along the way. Maybe you’d like to provide your top ten favourite memes on teh internetz, challenge perceptions of a particular form of social media, demonstrate where an online presence works well or just spend 5 minutes educating the room about the most famous cats in cyberspace. This really is open to you – we want the event to have the capacity to be both serious and fun.

Except that I’m going to ‘pimp’ BirminghamRecycled.co.uk, I haven’t exactly decided what to talk about. – But I have come up with an incomplete list.

• Social media: a professional tool or personal pleasure?
• Journalist vs. Blogger is there a difference.
• Teaching social media – It’s not a monologue.
• News as a platform/conversation.
• Is it News or merely aggregation?

I will have to submit my idea to Shona before lunch time tomorrow. Will post when I have more details.

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