Social Media isn’t the conversation. It’s where the conversation takes place. With that in mind, if you are a CMO of your brand, here are some tidbits for you to think about:

Young entrepreneurs, listen to this.

There is no secret recipe to reach the top, but listening to this might atleast give you inspiration, helps you correct your mistakes faster, understand what makes things work, the value of partnerships and business alliances, risk taking attitude, the team you work with, learning from failures and ultimately hard work.

SIME Talks, inspired by a similar version from TED features interviews, expert opinions around things digital from friends of the SIME house. We started the weekly routine of featuring an expert and focusing on a take home message revolving around different topics since last July, and the concept has quite much caught on.

SIME 2010 – here is to a great year for digital inspiration!

At SIME Stockholm during November, we had a diverse set of folks from all over the place who were keen on exploring digital opportunities together with us. From top level managers, city councils / government organizations to first time entrepreneurs, from the traditional business to the artistic one, people came in all forms and shapes. We did some quick 2 minute interviews with some of the folks and you can find the videos below.

First, the second most tweeted word in Scandinavia during the second day of the event (the first was #googlewave, second was #sime09 followed by #youtube). Second, we had more than 35K web views, of which 29K were unique last week alone. Again, we are quite proud for all the effort that went in to the site design, the maintenance, the blog etc. We think the SIME juggernaut has just started, and the journey has not ended, it has begun. We are very eager to see what we can do for the year ahead of us.

Truly thanking all the readers and well-wishers, you are great

The official hash tag for this year at SIME is #SIME09.

We are happy to welcome the following bloggers to SIME09 on a Blogger Press Pass. We got lots of great applications, and these bloggers are our pick based on a combination of writing, reach and application comments. And a reminder about what the SIME Blogger Press Pass means: What do we expect from Blogger Press [...]

Annie Wegelius is impressive. She is not the kind of corporate personnel who would bend over when you talk digital jargon with her about why the new media would swallow up traditional media. Instead, she stands up, embraces the change in consumption pattern and executes innovation within the “huge dinosaur”. She was quite vociferous in her views about how the traditional media should fight the fire with the digital media on stage at SIME last year and cited SVT as a classic case study. I managed to dig through some digital tapes and find this short talk featuring her as the protagonist for this week’s SIME Talks.

Ball-it, one of SIME Awards nominated Mighty 36 from Finland was profiled by Crunchgear, Tech Crunch’s gadget review site, and found their technology ridiculously cool. And if Ball-it makes it past the last hurdle and get chosen as one of the Top 3 in the SIME Awards, we look forward a sneak preview on how games would be played couple of years down the line.