Paul's Web Space 2.1

Social Rockstar/Now Is Gone/No Personality

I've recently been at total slacker in writing up conferences and events, but I'm starting to make up for that. I'm blogging late Spring events now, and I have a few dusty drafts that I'll drop occasionally while I catch up — as I want endeavor to create a more complete record of interesting happenings I've stumbled upon. (Warning: shameless networking/blog-dropping to ensue.)
On May 16, I caught part of the Social Rockstar Workshop at Busboys & Poets in DC. I met Nick O'Neill, creator of AllFacebook.com and the recently launched Social Times, but unfortunately, I missed his talk; I met Frank Gruber – co-founder of TECH cocktail, a principal product manager for AOL in the social networking & platforms group, and is responsible for the recently launched myAOL suite – and heard him speak about ways organizations can effectively use social media technology; and I saw Justin Thorp, Developer Community Manager at Clearspring Technologies, speak about widgets (we had already met). I also ran into Jonny Goldstein of Jonny's Par-tay (shows on Wednesday's at 9PM ET), and workshop organizers Paul and Kady, who run the DC-area Social Web Meet-up.

Then June kicked off with a DC chapter of Social Media Club book discussion at Barnes & Noble in Clarendon, featuring the authors of Now is Gone, Geoff Livingston and Brian Solis. They spoke and answered questions about PR and blogs and social media, and had a lot to say about thoughtfully engaging the conversation on the Web, rather than indescriminately blasting your message, and how a lot of PR firms don't currently get it (Solis coined the phrase PR 2.0). I met the authors and got them to autograph a copy of their book. I also met Rohit Bhargava, Senior Vice President, Digital Strategy & Marketing at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence, and had him autograph his new book Personality Not Included; I had missed a book event at Busboys & Poets the previous evening, but caught the webcast (archives are here, if hard to find).

After the event, at Tandoori dinner and drinks next door, I again ran into Frank Gruber and Nick O'Neill; reconnected with Jennifer Consalvo, Director of Personalization at AOL, and Shashi Bellamkonda, social Media Swami for Network Solutions; met Jared Goralnick of AwayFind and SET Consulting; and met Aaron Brazell of social media business blog TechnoSailor.

Labels: events, networking, social rockstar workshop, socialmedia, widgets

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