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It was a real privilege to welcome @OwsWills to give the opening keynote at #SMCCymru23 💪🗣️
Being asked to give the opening keynote at the inaugural Social Media Conference Cymru was a huge privilege. To have made 300 people laugh like fools was even better. 😆🥰 #SMCCymru23 #MoreOfThisPlease
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Wow! Owen Williams off to a flying start with his 152 slide keynote extravaganza at Social Media Conference Cymru this morning. I’ll be leaving a one star review @simlsocial . “Too many slides.” 😉
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👉 Speaker Spotlight 👈 🗣 Owen Williams Owen has a formidable track record in social media. He's worked on countless successful campaigns, having also led Editorial Strategy at BBC Content Social, and social media at BBC One and BBC Wales. #SMCCymru23 🎟 socialmediaconference.cymru
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Good Lord, @acttrainingltd’s Cardiff HQ is lovely 😍 (Hopefully bums *will* arrive in seats or otherwise this will be a quiet gig!)
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Accessibility is critical. Alt-text supports a disabled audience • It describes the function/appearance of a photo/graphic • A little consideration goes a long way • Used as a creative, editorial tool, alt-text can be brand-defining
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I've started to think of ALT text as a creative, editorial space as opposed to a basic description of an image. I've long been of the opinion that where we tweet bilingually, the Welsh language should *add value*, not replicate. The same applies here, imho 👇
Does @NFFC now have to become my second-favourite football team? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Want to strengthen your social engagement strategy & make sure your work & comms has even greater impact? The Democracy Network are hosting 'The Art of Going Viral' led by @OwsWills on 28th June!📢 Find out more & register here (you won't regret it)! eventbrite.com/e/the-art-of-…
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This was a lot of fun. Nice to talk about the social that’s impressed me, and also some of the content I’ve worked on – particularly @YesCymru’s viral “Republic of Wales” night! Diolch for the opportunity, @SproutSocial & @Cat_grl.
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Special to watch @Topnav100 collect the #RTSCymruAwards Digital prize last night. The winning entry, “Yn y Garej” (In the Garage) is a stellar example of content that fully exploits its unique audience niche 👉 fb.watch/chebC80Gnp/ 💫 Proud to have @simlsocial sponsor it.
Waw waw waw! Ni mor chuffed 😍🙌🏻🥳 We only went and won it 😅 Diolch i bawb am wylio a chefnogi, thank you everyone for your support 🙌🏻
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Diolch o galon i @simlsocial am noddi hwn 👌 First of its kind award, goes to ‘one of a kind’ Howard Davies 🥂🍾 Thanks so much to Siml Social for the sponsorship and @RTSCymruWales for the gong Great team effort @RalioS4C @TinopolisCymru @tinopolisgroup @Topnav100 @HanaMedi
Llongyfarchiadau @EmyrPenlan, Howard a tîm @RalioS4C i gyd. 👏 A joy to see you all so thrilled. We’re delighted to have sponsored this first-of-its-kind award for @RTSCymruWales. #RTSCymruAwards | @tinopolisgroup
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🏆 Digital 2021 🤝 Sponsored by @simlsocial And the winner is: Yn Y Garej: Philip Mills • @tinopolisgroup Llongyfarchiadau gwresog! 🎉 #RTSCymruAwards 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Genuinely excited for tonight, particularly as Mrs W is presenting the @simlsocial-sponsored Digital Award to either @boomcymru, @Rombren, @tinopolisgroup or @on_par. She’s got her dress all picked out, and the babysitters are on standby! 🍹 #RTSCymruAwards 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Tonight’s the night! We’re so proud to be bringing you our first #RTSCymruAwards since 2019. Two years of incredible content from Cymru *deserves* recognition. Pob lwc i bawb! 🥂 ———— 👇 The Nominations 👇
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Learn how social pros keep a pulse on what’s relevant and determine which trends are right for their brands to take on. Join Daniel Simmons of @populate_, Avery Allman of Sprout Social and Owen Williams of @simlsocial 📆 Book your spot for 4/28: bit.ly/3J1ePMp
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I strongly recommend that you log in to watch this incredible #TIN22. Great speakers talking about news, fact-checking and verification. Essential skills to have as we are subjectied to dis- and mis-information. Facts matter! 👇👇👇
Day 2 of #TIN22, chaired by the superb @philippanews, is here. Today's speakers represent a global range of news and tech orgs… @washingtonpost @CBCRadioCanada @firstdraftnews @BBC @NatGeo @AP @ABCaustralia @witnessorg 🌍 Stream it live, anywhere → bbc.in/TIN22website
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Learning Welsh in the best way possible with my DAHHHHHLING @OwainWynEvans ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿back in 2020. Thanks for reminding us @OwsWills...not a lot of "siarad Cymraeg" going on in these bits mind 😂❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
In early 2020, @simlsocial produced a series of videos to coincide with @boomcymru's "Iaith ar Daith" on @S4C. This one, featuring the incomparable @carolvorders and the inimitable @OwainWynEvans, is just 1 minute of unadulterated silliness. I ❤️ it.
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In early 2020, @simlsocial produced a series of videos to coincide with @boomcymru's "Iaith ar Daith" on @S4C. This one, featuring the incomparable @carolvorders and the inimitable @OwainWynEvans, is just 1 minute of unadulterated silliness. I ❤️ it.
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When I give Keynotes on making social content go viral, I talk about “dark social” – those spaces your content travels unbeknown to you, such as WhatsApp, Messenger and email. But I so often neglect to mention screengrabbing to Facebook, where this tweet is doing serious trade:
If the Barnett Formula was called “Money that Wales, Scotland and NI pay in taxes and is then fiddled with by some MPs they didn’t elect, in a country they don’t live in, and handed back in piecemeal fashion while they tell us to ‘feel grateful’” we’d pay a LOT more attention.
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We're bringing together organisations such as @WashingtonPost, @Google and @firstdraftnews – members of The Trusted News Initiative – for #TIN22. 🗓 On March 29, join @Philippanews for 2 days of discussion and insight, designed to counter disinformation. bbc.in/TIN22website
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A new slide in our "Art of Going Viral" presentation ahead of a conference… I've been espousing this mantra for years, but only realised this morning that it needed hammering home. You can get so comfortable with public speaking, you forget that your patter has value, too.
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Great to welcome @OwsWills today as he shared his invaluable social media promotional expertise. Thanks Owen!
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