Collated Blog posts and Storify reports from the conference strands:

Summary posts:

• Live Storify of Day 1
• Live Storify of Day 2
• Nicola Osborne Live Blog
• Live Twitter Stream
• SueG blog post  

Keynotes:

• Farida Vis: Storify Tweet Summary
• David Gurteen: Storify tweet Summary
• John Traxler: Storify tweet Summary

NodeXL map of #ECSM2014 thanks to Connected Action:

Thursday Morning Strands:

• The Importance of Social Media for Validating University Brands (Katie Piatt)
• Who wants police on social media (Katie Piatt)

Kicking off this morning at 9:00am.

• Follow the programme
• Follow tweets on #ECSM2014
• Biographies of the speakers
• Live Storify of Keynote 1: Farida Vis

If you have any questions look for the conference team with coloured conference lanyards, or tweet!

We hope you enjoy the two days.

Around 200 students from local schools are at the University of Brighton this morning to participate in the Student Social Media Showcase.

Follow the live activity on our Storify report and view the schedule for the day.

What social media should you follow to keep up with the conference?

Student Social media Showcase – Weds July 9th

• SSMS Blog
• SSMS Live Storify
• Tweet on #brightsoc and #SSMS2014

European Conference on Social Media – Thurs and Friday July 10th and 11th

• ECMS website and programme
• Keynote 1: Farida Vis Live Storify
• Tweet on #brightsoc and #ECSM2014

If your kids are too young for Twitter and Facebook, this blog post provides a range of sites to get safely started with Social Media:

Social Networking for Kids by Common Sense Media

Find out the full programme on the ECSM site

Posters will be linked to here.