Tag Archives: conference

my tee oh see

Posted in General, TOC 2009

I’ve had a full week now to digest my TOC experience in New York and hopefully I will manage to capture in this post the many points of real value that I gleaned from it.
For those of you I didn’t meet on Twitter, it was actually me behind the @thedigitalist tweets, not Sara. Like [...]

Moscow Calling

Posted in Facebook, General, read/write culture

A couple of weeks ago it was my very great pleasure to attend and give a talk at a conference in Moscow. Yes, Moscow. It went a little something like this…
Hold on a sec. How did this come about? Well thanks goes to Brian Green of Editeur, the bibliographic standards body, and the guys at [...]

Plumbing ROI

Posted in General, Publishing

At the NLab Social Media conference there was, almost inevitably, a steady undercurrent from the assembled business types . It goes like this: but how do we make money? Sara mentioned buzzword bingo. How about this for a buzzword: monetize. Money being wasted, time being wasted; earnest new media consultants, saying “yes [...]

Buzzword burnout

Posted in General

I’m at my second conference on Social Networks in two weeks. I am at severe risk of buzzword burnout and if anyone asks me again whether I am twittering this conference I cannot be held accountable for my actions.
The conference has been cleverly self-knowing and instituted a game of buzzword bingo, which most people had [...]