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Events

WOMMA Summit

December 6, 2006

Posted by Rick.Murray

I’d like to put a serious plug in for all those who are considering attending, but have not yet made the decision to attend the WOMMA Summit that’s happening next Tuesday and Wednesday in DC.

In short: this conference will rock your socks. Why? Because it will give you answers to the questions I know, and you know, you have. It will let you hear about some really cool programs from some insanely smart people (further disclosure… not me). You’ll get to meet, chat (and party) with the people behind what’s new and what’s next.

(Disclosure: I am a member of WOMMA’s board and I am on the agenda to speak with another of WOMMA’s directors, Scott Wilder from Intuit.)

This stuff is a lot of fun, but getting up to speed is hard work. The WOMMA Summit is a really simple and totally affordable way to kick-start your growth.

I hope to see you all there.

Cheers.

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Events

All Hail The Unconference

October 27, 2006

Posted by Phil.Gomes

I give many talks. Typically, part of my intro schpiel has to do with one of the strange ironies of this business.

You see... I've gone to talk after talk in the new media space. Each time, the speaker is carrying on about the great conversations that everyone is having online and how one might participate in them.

And how is this message delivered?

Yup... Lecture format.

That's why I'm hoping that conferences big and small start taking a serious look at the unconference as a concept.

From Wikipedia:

An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance. To date, the term is primarily in use in the geek community. Unconference processes like Open Space Technology, however, have been around for over 20 years in other contexts.

Well... A lot of things start in the "geek community." Like, um, blogs... Just as an example.

And look where we are now?

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Events

You Can't Kill Rock 'N' Roll

February 28, 2006

Posted by Phil.Gomes

Last weekend, my girlfriend and I caught the Sevendust show at the House Of Blues in Hollywood. After the de rigueur body search at the front door, the security guard noticed my girlfriend's digital camera and politely asked us to go back to the car and drop it off there — strict no-cameras-allowed policy.

Harrumph!

We made our way to the balcony/mezzanine level, looking down on the stage. About halfway through Sevendust's set, my girlfriend pointed to the seething throng of fans below.

There they were: Somewhere in the middle and about ten feet from the stage... About a half-dozen of them... Bobbing with the band's scalpel-precision rhythms...

...were the tiny, glowing, color LCD screens of cameraphones.

Sure, most of these cameraphone pictures probably turned out grainy and blurred, and will be nowhere near the five-megapixel quality provided by the camera we ended up stowing in my trunk.

Nevertheless, it underscored for me what most of this blog's readers probably already know: Technology, and particularly convergence, makes the concept of message control very much an illusion. This includes control of (and access to) the visual message as well.

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What's Talkshop

TalkShop is a blog about word-of-mouth and the Me2 Revolution, published by Edelman and hosted by Phil Gomes, the company's Senior Counsel, Online Communications. This blog pulls in thoughts and opinions from members of the worldwide Edelman network.