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I always wanted to do a title, “What Jamie did next” but as this only covers whats happening in the next six weeks it would be a little pompous. So, the next six weeks are going to be awesome.

I am delighted to be part of the judging panel for this year’s New Media Age Effectiveness Awards 2010. As a past entrant of many years (sadly never a winner) I am delighted to be ‘on the other side’ to see what excellent work has been done in this past year within the digital space. “A new media age Effectiveness Award is the greatest prize in new media, a recognition that the winning company understands how to use new media to create new ways of doing business and deliver tangible results.” I also get to come to the Awards Ceremony on 24th June in London. See you there? http://www.nmaawards.co.uk/

Later in April I will be attending the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam which will be great. The calibre of speakers looks awesome and I am most looking forward to the Startup Rally which is where I find greatest inspiration for what is coming over the horizon. As Editor of TNW Apps, I am a little biased but I think shows like this and Le Web in Paris are bringing the cutting edge to Europe, which saves me a flight to the US!

I will be speaking on ‘The Future of Social Media’ at Being Social ’10 in London. The event, on the 13th May brings together Influential social media experts and digital visionaries to discuss, debate, demonstrate and explain how social and digital media continues to advance, highlighting how organisations can create value using this fast changing channel. The current line up is awesome and I am delighted to be on the same card as old friends Andrew Gerard and Matt Morrison. http://www.being-social.com/

May 23rd will see me in Richmond, chairing the day’s events for Social Media in Business ’10. I attended last autumns’s conference which was great, a lot of different speakers, short segments and not too much agency pitching which sometimes gets in the way of these things. “The conference examines how social media culture and social networking platforms are having a major impact on business communication, practices and processes”

I also have some discount codes for this event, just follow this link and use the code smibridd to get 15% off the ticket price.

June will see me in New York for a DMi Conference. I have yet to finalise the details so I will let you know as soon as I have more. I am hoping to meet a lot of app developers and publishers while I am in town which will be cool.

That’s all so far. I am updating my speaking section for new and previous engagements with links to presentations where relevant as well as updating and backfilling my ‘in the press‘ and ‘writing‘ sections of the site. There is still a lot to add!

All is good.