Blog homeVirgin Atlantic (airline) are looking for help forming their social media strategy. They have turned to potential users and are organising a barcamp (V-Jam) in central London on the 28th of Nov 08 (during the day).
50-60 attendees are to be invited.
If you’re interested in going to the event you should fill our their short questionnaire which asks about your experience and background, and they will let you know if you’ve been selected to attend. The day will take an unstructured, almost barcamp style form with attendees creating the schedule as they go, and promises to be quite interesting. Oh, and I head rumour of some drinks afterward…
You have to apply….. so probably no one from British Airways should go!
What is weird is that there are plenty of travel ecommerce / travel social media bloggers (like me) who would be delighted to attend – and this is one occasion when a press release in our direction would have been appreciated! I love the concept of the day and have applied – lets see what happens.
Kudos to TravellerWithATale who have scooped everyone with the news. Not a single other mention elsewhere on the web – which – with 2 weeks to go – is probably not a great start. We got 70-80 this week at the latest travel blogging / travel social media barcamp in London (where I spoke)….. and if we had known about it then – it would have been a great place to make other travel social media types aware.
More from Nesta about the event – or read this PDF (which has lots of detail)
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Hi Alex
Handy post… thanks… Have filled in the questionnaire too… so maybe see you there (of course if one of us is selected and the other isn’t we can spend time debating on your blog or mine as to why!!!)
cheers
Jeremy
Virgin won’t know anything about this.
It’ll be the PR/Marketing agency picking bloggers brains for free. Sorry to be skeptical.
Not sure they want pure-breed bloggers – but social media people who understand travel and social media. Bloggers, unless uptospeed on what the latest in social media within travel, would actually be worse than neutral – because we may be tempted to slant the discussion towards blogs (which requires an expert to be involved) vs social media – which is about generating environments where others can flourish.
Hi Guys
Further to Alex’s post, I did a bit of digging as we work with Virgin Atlantic at iCrossing…
Virgin Atlantic DO know lots about it… they commissioned and worked with the agency that’s running it. According to the powers that be here at iCrossing they are after ‘input from creative technologists’ whatever that means. My guess is they’ve seen metrotwin and bluenity and are wondering if they should go social… should they?
If people are interested to go I can suggest them as participants… but can’t guarantee anything as I guess they will need a balance of different types of people with different specialisms.
Cheers
J
Alex,
“people who understand travel and social media”
that’s comical in itself.
Why is that comical Darren?
I admit those particular circles don’t make a great venn diagram (as there is little overlap – certainly from those who could give some free advice for an entire day!). Is that what you mean?
Yay – I got invited!
Well… in that case looks like I’ll see you there!
PS: Darren what did you mean?