This year's Social Media Week in February saw the inclusion of yet another part of the world that has made strides in adopting social media for social, business and political uses: Lagos, Nigeria -- Africa.

Last week turned out to be a good one with Served Fresh Media relaunching New York Viral Media Meetup (@nyviralmedia) at a sold out event full of digital media minds looking for insights into the latest viral media tricks and trends.

After a successful event with the IBM Smarter Commerce team at their 2012 event in Orlando (featuring Guy Kawasaki) where IBM broke a Guinness World Record and the event trended on Twitter for two days in a row, Served Fresh Media will be back with our team of awesome Social Media Amplifiers, helping to bring the event to the online audience and the online audience to the event along with other fierce social media influencers!

Join us as we assemble an all-star panel of thought-leaders in viral media (bios below) who will offer insights into how they're creating and monetizing the media we love to share. Among other things, we will discuss how they create and capture the excitement of fast-moving, unpredictable viral campaigns and are able to monetize ideas, social movements and "crowd-emotions" in real-time.

Last weekend, I had the privilege of presenting a talk at the launch of Beekman 33 Idea Salon (an intimate gathering of like-minded individuals who share a passion for creativity, art, food, music, tech, and collaborating). I was surprised at how effective and inspiring the event turned out to be...

Social Media Week is, without a doubt, the most popular, long-running event focused on the business and growth of social media.  The event (now in over 20 cities worldwide) dominates the Twitter trending list as tens of thousands of digital media professionals, entrepreneurs, students, curious folk and the media gather at over 500 hundreds in ten cities worldwide, over the [...]

We had the thorough pleasure of covering Curalate‘s Marketing without Words: Social Engagement Through Imagery Conference at Social Media Week New York last night. At Marketing Without Words, industry thought leaders from social’s most successful brands and agencies will come together to discuss the future of social media and how they’re leveraging Pinterest/Instagram to grow their audience, form stronger relationships [...]

A crazy, fun crowd for sure! Here are some of our photos (taken by our Social Media Reporter) from the Marketing Without Words Conference at Social Media Week NY 2013.

Look up in the sky! It’s a plane! It’s Jarobin Guerra Gilbert — one of our fierce Social Media Amplifiers on the beat! Jarobin’s social media skills were in full effect for us last week at Social Media Week 2013 — so much so that he was recognized as being the 7th top social media influencer tweeting at Social Media Week.  [...]