Social Media Week Lagos 2019

Jumpstart your #SMWLAGOS 2019 with complimentary coffee and lite bites. Beat the long lines, arrive early to pick up your badge, then join us for coffee, conversation and networking.

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Stories are important in driving the vehicle of social change. Throughout history, stories relating to human rights abuses, government policies, and social justice have all helped to push forward progress around the world.

Mandela Washington Fellows are a crop of young people who are working to influence their communities and countries through stories and action. Some Fellows have illuminated the plight of disadvantage kids in slum communities, others have demonstrated how simple things like art can be used to influence a group of young people to promote change.

A Thousand Lives: How Stories Influence Social Change panelist will present the inspiring impact of the work they have done in order to bring change to their community using different storytelling techniques.

Participants will learn

• the art of using visual, kinesthetic, and auditory methods to tell compelling stories about the work they do in their communities.how stories can be used to drive social change
• how stories are interwoven and how best to frame isolated ideas into a big picture story.
• how to use stories to apply for grants and funding
• how to use stories to show growth and impact

The Mandela Washington Fellowship and the YALI Network in Nigeria work to develop and promote young leaders who look within their communities and find specific areas in which they can serve to bring change to such communities.

This session is powered by the passion and success of Mandela Fellows from across the continent and is coordinated by the Mandela Washington Fellows Alumni Association (Nigeria Chapter) and IREX.

Being the first to support a good cause doesn't always make you right , or as they say on Twitter... 'woke'. In the shadow of major companies and brands rallying behind activists and social issues they are not morally aligned with, it is easier now, more than ever, to contribute to hot-button conversations on a hashtag, but the last thing you want to do on the web is be 'woke' and be wrong.

Media professional and BLACK ENTERPRISE reporter Lydia T. Blanco will explore how content creators and consumers can dig deeper into major campaigns that seemingly support activist and activism through social justice marketing and advertisement.

During this session, attendees will learn how to identify "woke-bait" on social media and within advertising campaigns; gain tools to accurately report, and add to the conversation off and online; explore difficulties in decision making -- to support or pass on woke-bait; and discuss the impact big business' wokeness can have on our communities -- socially and economically.

With hundreds of pitches submitted every year, landing a spot on the SMW stage is never easy. Stop by #SMWLagos 2020 Loading... Info Session & Meet-up for a drop-in info/Q/A session on how you can be part of SMW Lagos. Our programming committee, successful pitch partner "veterans" and SMW executive team members will be on hand to discuss how to craft a winning SMW pitch, trends, future opportunities and what we will be looking for in 2020.

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Following our panel session, attendees are invited to the TalkOverFood Springboard Meetup, an opportunity for food startups to share there food business idea for feedback and funding support while networking

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