#socialconvo an update

Last Tuesday Mark Brown @MarkOneinFour, Paul Taylor @PaulBromford and I hosted “What can social media do to make social good better?” We wanted to discuss the potential of social media as a place where social good could happen. One of the big questions as Mark so delightfully puts it “how do you move social media from a broadcasting medium to a space where relationships grow and where, sometimes, magic things happen?”

It was a risk for us not just in terms of the finances and resources required but because we all have a strong social media presence. What would happen if no one wanted to come and join in the conversation?  Happily there was a lot of interest in #socialconvo which we see as the beginning of a very different social conversation.

It sounds so obvious really that every event costs money to put on. If it is…