The workshops day at the Sixth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media included three full-day workshops (Social Media Visualization, Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams, and When the City Meets the Citizen) and one half day workshop (The Potential of Social Media Tools and Data for Journalists in the News Media). Workshops were held on June 4, 2012, the day prior to the first day of the technical conference, in Dublin, Ireland.