I just returned from a week of conferences. I started up at SearchFest in Portland, OR (put on by the dominators of search—SEMpdx) and ended in Austin, TX where I partook in both the PubCon and SXSW festivities. Let me just say…I am tired. What is it about us geeky types? Put all of us […]
New media
Photos and takeaways from SXSW 2009
I was surprised today to learn that attendance at the venerable South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, is up by 20 percent over last year. In this economy? Yep. SXSW is one of the premier networking events in the tech world. I’m back home now after spending two full days at the gathering, […]
A new beginning for the media
James Poniewozik in Time magazine: An End, and a Beginning, for the Media. Excerpt: Like the car companies, individual media outlets will probably have to learn to be smaller. And they’ll need to see their new-media "problems" as part of the solution. Internet users don’t hate the media. In fact, when given the tools by […]
Who isn’t a social media strategist?
TwistImage: Who isn’t a new media/social media strategist? If you look at many of the profiles found on Blogs and people’s ultra-short/sharp bios on Twitter, you will notice something very interesting: almost everybody says that they are either a New Media Strategist or a Social Media Strategist. What, exactly, does that mean and how can […]
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.