Twitter and Facebook top of mind: The nascent power of weak ties and small touches What a difference a year makes! The Social Networking Conference debuted several years ago as a forum for social networking sites and vendors, with enterprise clients few and far between. Miami 2009 took place January 22-23, 2009 at the Miami […]
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2009 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing
I published this a week ago but am republishing it now because it’s quite timely on Jan. 1 and because I added several additional events to the calendar.
For the past two years I put together a calendar of some of the best social media, technology, media and marketing conferences for the upcoming year. Here’s the list for 2009. Apologies, I had to leave out events outside the U.S. or the list would triple in size, and I left out newspaper conferences.
Highlights from BlogWell
I enjoyed word-of-mouth marketing firm GasPedal’s BlogWell program yesterday afternoon in San Jose. The focus was: “How big companies use social media: 8 great case studies on the best social media programs at large corporations.” I attended, wearing my social media in the enterprise consulting hat, to get a feel for how social media initiatives […]
Report from Office 2.0
The wi-fi at the second annual Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today was spotty, so I’m able to post this only now. I attended for the second straight year. Here are some photos. And here are some highlights: All the registrants received a free iPhone — pretty cool. (I didn’t because I’m a member […]
6 podcasting business models
Got back last night after speaking Friday at the Portable Media Expo & Podcasting Conference in Ontario, Calif. (See the schedule for day 1 and day 2.) I was on a Citizens Media panel with John Furrier of Podtech and Eric Rice of Audioblog, and I gave a 15-minute presentation about the collision between big […]