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…
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. It’s brilliant and gets the idea of conferences wrong. Conferences aren’t about sessions, talking heads, and lecture format, which…
Image via Wikipedia Why pro conferences are different than PodCamps and why neither is better Some interesting discussion this morning on the differences between PodCamps and pro conferences like the Affiliate Summit, which I’m speaking at on a panel on Tuesday, August 12. A difference to highlight, from the registration page of the Affiliate Summit:…
Transmitting Essence in Social Media As I continue to learn more about digital photography and graduate from clueless hack with a nice camera to somewhat clueless hack with a nice camera, one of the lessons I’ve learned so far is that very often, representing the whole can be done through representing the essence. What the…
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… … or at least until the next conference to which we bring lightsabers. Hat tip to…
Podcasters Across Borders 2008 Review Podcasters Across Borders 2008 has wrapped up, and I’m back in the office. Another terrific weekend, full of great friends and interesting discussions. A few takeaways from this weekend that I picked up: Sylvain Grand-Maison showed a great slide of song structure and podcast structure – comparing the two, and…
Preparing for PodCamp DC with the Jeff Pulver Method Jeff Pulver writes a great recurring blog post about how to prepare for an upcoming conference. His method of making a conference a productive experience for you is one that is infinitely valuable, and I highly recommend adopting the framework for your own conference experiences, whether…
For those who didn’t head out to PodCamp Toronto this weekend, another UnConference launched in New England – NewBCamp. Very closely aligned in concept (though no connection) to PodCamp Pittsburgh‘s BootCamp PGH, NewBCamp was created by Sara Streeter, a student at Johnson & Wales University, to achieve the dual goals of introducing new people to…
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Jeff Pulver’s hosting Spring VON.x in San Jose the week of March 17. While I can’t make it, if you have any interest in voice or video online, you should. Top 5 Reasons to go to VON.x See great speakers give you an idea where things are going for them Watch a professional conference team…
