Today I attended Communicate Magazine’s Social Media in a Business Context event and had the opportunity to interview Merran Wrigley, Sony Ericsson’s Head of External Communications.

I asked Merran to tell me a little more about her social media based press-room. 

Quadriga Consulting develops such press resources – as well as corporate blogs – for clients.  Merran outlined the challenges she faced in terms of integrating her new press-room into Sony Ericsson’s existing web based resources.

Communicate Magazine is organising its second Social Media in a Corporate Context conference in April.  Quadriga Consulting Ltd is a supporting partner of the event – and Jeff Peel, Managing Director of Quadriga Consulting, will be attending. 

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The event, to be held on April 28th, focuses on how to use social media strategy and web2.0 tools to engage audiences – internal and external. Attendees will learn from industry experts and experienced practitioners on core subjects.

Speakers will include Peter Horrocks, Head of Global News for the BBC as well as speakers from GM, First Direct, PR Newswire – and many other organisations that have embraced social media as an agent of change. Read the full agenda here.

Communicate Magazine has put together a short video drawing on speakers and delegates from last year’s event. Just click here to view.

If you know anything about Quadriga you’ll know that we have been WordPress fans for years.  We have built dozens of WordPress based web sites and blogs for clients, event related sites, and even on a pro bono basis for our friends. 

Therefore we were delighted to read that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for WordPress, as, according to its CEO, “it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.”

In addition to winning in the Overall Best Open Source CMS category, WordPress was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS category.  As is stated on the Award site, “WordPress made its way into the top five for the first time. The fact that it was outranked by Drupal by a very slight margin indicates how popular it has become with users as well as developers over the past year.”

Congratulations WordPress.  Well deserved.

Don’t know a Digg from a tweet?  Lost in the world of feeds, meta-tags and social networking?  Perhaps it’s time to invest in some Web 2.0 Marketing training.

Quadriga Consulting is fast becoming one of a new breed of Web 2.0 marketing specialists.  We’re working with clients in the United States, across the UK and mainland Europe on Web 2.0 communications strategies.  But sometimes clients have difficulty defining what they want when they don’t really understand the technologies and opportunities.

Whatever size of company you are we can provide structured training on the massive export marketing potential that Web 2.0 represents.  We can show you real-world examples of how you can make use of web, social networking and social bookmarking technologies to really improve your business.  We can tell you why RSS feeds and blogs are important.  We can show you how ePR works.  We can show how low-cost or free web applications can make a real difference to your online visibility.  And we can show how new interactive web technologies can improve your understanding of your customers and channels. 

In-house training can be provided from as little as £950 + VAT.  We can also create special packages of training, consultancy and ongoing support.  And as part of a growing network of associates with huge expertise in different aspects of the Web 2.0 marketing mix we can provide implementation programmes to support your internal teams.

Contact Quadriga Consulting today for more information on our Web 2.0 marketing training and consulting packages.

McCain Foods in the United States is asking parents across the United States what they think about school food.  Working with social networking and blog research specialists Quadriga Consulting Ltd and itoi Research in London the firm is recruiting Mom bloggers from across the USA to participate in a discussion via the Internet. 

As part of the exercise, a new blog has been created - that goes live today. 

So, if you are a Mom blogger and resident in the United States, and want to take part please take the time to read the first 2 starter posts and comment.  McCain Foods wants to hear your views.