The end of October will find me speaking at two conferences. It’s exciting to have the opportunity to talk about community building, the future of social media & meet new people. There is a coupon for each event if you want to join us!
At the Social Media Strategies Conference will be on a panel with LaSandra Brill of Cisco & Josh Bancroft of Intel. I look forward to meeting Francois Gossieaux & Ed Moran who were behind the Tribalization Study. It was a comprehensive survey that produced a lot of information outlining the value of communities. And I will get to reconnect with Sean O’Driscoll whom I met last December when I spoke at a conference in Seattle. Sean is well known for his community work at Microsoft with their MVP program.
- Join us & use the coupon code ‘community56’ for a discount of $150.
And we have set up a twitter account, @socialmediameme that’s offering links to high quality articles.
This will be my first trip to San Francisco so I scheduled some extra time in for getting together with social media friends, meet a start up that I’m advising & sightseeing.
Next on the circuit is the Defrag Conference.
Defrag 2008 also features an amazing line up of speakers. Check out the speaker page (I love the mouse over feature). On the second day, Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell, will be doing the keynote. Later that morning I will be on a panel with Kevin Marks, Google & JP Rangaswami, BT. The topic is Making the "Social" Web. (My work tends toward making the web social! )
At this conference I"ll be connecting with Graeme Thickins from Minnesota. His company created an iPhone app & he’s active in the tech scene in the Twin Cities.
The discount coupon code for this conference is "foc1" (friend of connie 1) for a discount of $300.
Then today in my inbox I received an invitation to attend another conference on the day I’m flying to San Francisco. To date I don’t think I’ll be able to attend this one, but I’ll share the information & the coupon code they sent me because it made me smile! It came from Andy Sernovitz & gang. He’s the king of word of mouth!
BlogWell, 10/28/08, San Jose – the discount code is "weloveconnie" for 10% off
8 great case studies in corporate social media – Unprecedented insight on social media and corporate blogging from Cisco, Intel, Wells Fargo, Walmart, UPS, Kaiser Permanente, Graco, and Home Depot. Topics like measuring ROI, managing teams, legal issues, working with agencies and creating great content. From GasPedal and Blog Council.
If you’re at either of the first two events definitely say hi! I’d love to meet you.
Connie: looks like you have your work cut out for you for the rest of October! It’s going to be great…each conference has an all-star cast :-)
Not sure if I can make it out to these conferences as I’m trying to work others into my agenda but maybe we can work out the meetup in San Francisco? That would be fantastic!
I can now say I have met one of the famous US social media experts, well done and give my regards to JP – one of the few UK companies doing some great stuff with social media internally.
Well now! This is totally fantastic news. Please please let us (your loyal fans!) know if there’s going to be any streaming or recording of the event. You are “must see TV” material and although I can’t make it to either of these, I’d love to catch it online if at all possible.
Don’t waste your time with the “taking names” part, just kick some!
aww, you guys are the best!
Ricardo I’ll let you know.
Peter you are pretty awesome too!
And Dave, I’ll let you know. Although at Blogworld I went quiet (even my sister noticed). – I really wasn’t quiet though of course… I was meeting people! in person. :) I’ll keep you posted.
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