I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking on the Robust Online Content panel with Dr. Matthew Grant, Phil Juliano from Novell, Valeria Maltoni from Sungard, and Mike O'Toole from PJA on Monday at the MarketingProfs B2B Forum. One of my personal themes (that I didn't articulate in the panel) for the conference has been souvenirs from conferences.
I'll be at the MarketingProfs B2B Forum today, speaking on a panel about creating compelling content with Matthew Grant, Mike O'Toole, Phil Juliano, and Valeria Maltoni. If you're at the B2B Forum, say hi. If you have no idea what I look like, the photo at the top of the post should help a little, as it's fairly accurate and very, very recent.
Pixelated Business Marketing Conference
As we wrap up 2008 and the interesting year that it was, I wanted to throw out some ideas there for PodCamp organizers for 2009.
I had a blast at the MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Mixer, held in Fountain Hills, Arizona. 300 of marketing's most dedicated people flew, drove, and walked out to the middle of the desert to talk shop on social media, email, and search marketing, and my hat's off to MarketingProfs for throwing yet another successful event. Some highlights:
Mitch Joel created a great meme over the weekend - Pixelated, the 100% virtual online conference, assembled from video footage of conferences past. Since then, lots of folks have created their own riffs on this idea.
Why pro conferences are different than PodCamps and why neither is better
At Podcasters Across Borders, Chris Brogan and I had an epic fight over conversation vs. monetization, over community vs. marketing. Here's the video of this late night "session" which will set the tone for podcasting for years to come...
