What do conference delegates really want?
Just as an add-on to the post below, I think that product placement at these types of conferences is becoming pervasive - just look at the number of Social Media and Blogging conferences where the sponsors are also the speakers.
There are quite a few coming up in 2006 - some good - more wannabes.
I was looking at the 'Blogs and Social media Forum' in May - I was thinking of going but it seems to be a bunch of vendors pitching the audience - program seems a bit tired. The pharmaceutical, finance and IT industries are great at setting up conferences to promote themselves.
I am not hitting on these guys (my good buddy Euan is also speaking) but c'mon - I'm looking for impact - not how to make my blog rank high in Technorati. (OK - that was unjust but you know what I mean)
I want to see a social media conference that has social engineers, anthropologists and people working in international development or 3rd world projects; not VCs, Web 2.0 has-beens and the big media boys. I want to hear from linguists or from those measuring gender indicators - certainly religious, military and social informatics types.
Throw in a psychologist, a farmer and a criminologist - now that would make a great conference.
This is where I'll learn something more than just where to spend my budget.
After.the.fact: Read the review from Suw Charman - it supports my comments above and below. Got lots of emails on this one but sorry, Suw got it right.
There are quite a few coming up in 2006 - some good - more wannabes.
I was looking at the 'Blogs and Social media Forum' in May - I was thinking of going but it seems to be a bunch of vendors pitching the audience - program seems a bit tired. The pharmaceutical, finance and IT industries are great at setting up conferences to promote themselves.
I am not hitting on these guys (my good buddy Euan is also speaking) but c'mon - I'm looking for impact - not how to make my blog rank high in Technorati. (OK - that was unjust but you know what I mean)
I want to see a social media conference that has social engineers, anthropologists and people working in international development or 3rd world projects; not VCs, Web 2.0 has-beens and the big media boys. I want to hear from linguists or from those measuring gender indicators - certainly religious, military and social informatics types.
Throw in a psychologist, a farmer and a criminologist - now that would make a great conference.
This is where I'll learn something more than just where to spend my budget.
After.the.fact: Read the review from Suw Charman - it supports my comments above and below. Got lots of emails on this one but sorry, Suw got it right.
posted by J David Galipeau at Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents (PDF 1.2 MB)
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Sorry Euan - I was away getting blasted on the week-end .... I was playing with Technorati labels lately so it may have been lost for a few hours).
Nothing personal, obviously, but there are so many conferences that have the word BLOG in them - my fear is that the hype will turn into super hype and the credability of these blogs will fall. The numbers (both at wemedia and other reports that I have seen) shows that blogs are loosing credability - perhaps that is exactly what the big media boys want .......
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