The BlogTalk conference in Galway on 26 and 27 August will host some of the International heavyweights of Social Media. Speakers will include Silicon Valley journalist Dan Gillmor, social tools authority Stowe Boyd, and Don Thibeau of the OpenID system used by Yahoo and Google.
The theme of the BlogTalk event will be to discuss current and future trends in Social Media.
Other speakers at the event will be Charles Down, manager for Facebook’s EMEA Platform Operations; Blaine Cook, the former lead developer with Twitter; and Ade Oshineye, developer advocate with the Google Social Web team.
Topics listed for discussion are as follows: the benefits of Facebook integration to business;Â a new media literacy for our networked age; user data protection and privacy issues;Â the featuring of new research from NUI Galway which demonstrates how Twitter has evolved beyond the early adopters to become a mature service with a constant growth rate.
The best of our home grown will be represented by:Â Darragh Doyle, communications manager with Boards.ie; Ted Vickey, former executive director at the White House Athletic Center and a frequent speaker on LinkedIn; and Fergus Hurley, founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley startup Clixtr.
The event will be held over two days (26 and 27 August) on the NUI Galway campus
Registration: http://www.amiando.com/blogtalk2010.html