I just wanted to give a quick update on my travels to my home state, California. Right now, I am sitting in my hotel room trying to tackle the poor Wi-Fi service in this nice hotel (Yelp review coming)
Ok, so I am in San Jose, California, just miles away from where I was born, Fremont, California. Tim Moore and I are here for an exciting international event called Social Networking World Forum – North America. The company that organized this event, 6 Degrees, is based in England, and are extremely organized in international planning. They are holding events like this one all over the world, and this is their US stop.
The Event:
Starts Monday November 8th – November 9th, 2009. This 2 day conference will focus totally on social media, and it’s use in business. What I like about this event is that it focuses how other companies are leveraging social media, and receiving ROI. Other highlights:
- How to build a social media marketing campaign
- How to balance this with other marketing initiatives
- Will feature speakers from fortune 500 companies, and small business using SM
- Facebook developer Garage & Workshops
- 600 registrants, and 1000+ coming to the expo
We Are Speaking With Some Cool Peeps:
Tim and I were invited to not only be one of the few sponsors, but also to participate on panels. We are humbled that two guys from little ole’ Wilmington, NC will be contributing to this event. Take a look at both of our discussions. For a full schedule of both days, take a look at this PDF.
Tim on Day 2:
Tim Moore, President SayItSocial is chairing part: “Monitoring and measuring people talking about your company”
Richard Jalichandra, CEO of Technorati
Donna Goff, Advertising manager of MGM Grand Hotel & Casino
Jack Teuber, Director of US online marketing, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
Morgan Mclintic, Executive Vice president, USA & APAC, LEWIS PR
The gist of this part:
- How to monitor and listen to your audience
- How to maintain a watchful eye over forums and blogs and other informal media
- New technologies and services available
Ty Day 2:
Part: Home Entertainment, broadcast television and social media
Ty Downing, Vice President SayItSocial, President Perspective Internet Marketing
Justin Kan, founder of Justin.tv
Barry James Folsom, CEO, Twirl TV
The gist of this part:
- The marriage of online video and social media
- How communities can help develop better TV programming
- Using social networks to engage new audiences and expand reach
- Integrating social media within the television proposition
- Developing pay-tv with web 2.0 applications.
Starting Monday November 9th (Early) make sure you are following us on Twitter & Facebook for event updates, videos, and live streams…Should be a blast!
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