Yes last night’s headline speaker at Manchester’s Social Media Cafe, Mario from someoneoncetoldme.com will be making a virtual repeat performance right here.
The creator of the cult blog, made up of striking black and white images which simply display subjects holding messages showing something which someone once told them, spoke about his project to the crowd at last night’s event at The Northern in Tib Street.
(You can get a flavour of the talk in the streamed Qik video here).
And now Mario is going to host a Manchester week which we will also cover here – every day during the week of March 16, the site will feature someone from Manchester. Along with the photography, expect audio clips with city folk sharing their stories of how they came to receive the particular message.
During last night’s presentation we heard about how the someoneoncetoldme project has developed largely thanks to the power of social media networks – more than 1,000 people have taken up the Facebook widget and Twitter has enabled a quicker and more effective reponse time.
Mario is now hoping to take a year away from his job as a BBC journalist to travel the world and take the project global with a view to publishing a book.
* Elsewhere at last night’s event, participants were treated to a presentation about mobile content creation and sharing from award-winning blogger Martin Bryant, a discussion about marketing from David Bird and help with WordPress from David Mee. I will update the blog with more from these presentations as they find their way to the blogosphere!
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#smc_mcr Someone Once Told Me – they’re coming to Manchester!
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