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The "Future of TV Show, North America" review

Jan 24, 2008 at 12:42 AM by Mr. Howard Greenstein
Yesterday I attended the WTG's Future TV North America conference. I was asked by Bill Sobel to attend as a co-facilitator of a round table in Social Media and TV during one of the conferences scheduled times for meetings and exhibits. I was also able to attend the show yesterday, but due to scheduling I couldn't attend today's event. (Thanks to show producer Gemma Fawcett and her team for their help). The show, held at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square, New York City, was in general well organized and the seating was comfortable, adequate and pretty standard. The conference organizers did provide wifi, and though it worked better in some rooms than in others, it was useful to have, and I saw many attendees taking advantage of it. Continue reading...

The "Future of TV Show, North America" review

Jan 23, 2008 at 04:43 PM by Mr. Howard Greenstein
Yesterday I attended the WTG's Future TV North America conference. I was asked by Bill Sobel to attend as a co-facilitator of a round table in Social Media and TV during one of the conferences scheduled times for meetings and exhibits. I was also able to attend the show yesterday, but due to scheduling I couldn't attend today's event. (Thanks to show producer Gemma Fawcett and her team for their help). The show, held at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square, New York City, was in general well organized and the seating was comfortable, adequate and pretty standard. The conference organizers did provide wifi, and though it worked better in some rooms than in others, it was useful to have, and I saw many attendees taking advantage of it. Continue reading...
Tagged with: social media, tv, conferences, futureofTV

Social Media Goes Local in January

Jan 08, 2008 at 03:29 PM by Mr. Howard Greenstein
January is a month of some local events of note. While the hardware and software folks play at CES or MacWorld, people in Boston and Houston will be learning some new stuff and interacting in the Social Media Space. Social Media Club and the PRSA Boston are hosting "Beyond Blogging: PR and Today's Social Media Revolution" on January 10th at 6pm  at the Conference Center at Bently. For more details visit the Social Media Club wiki. You can register here and you need to do it soon as the event is filling up fast. (Thanks to Greg Peverill-Conti for the tip).

I'll be running a Social Media Club event in NYC on January 15th featuring Andrew Weinreich, Founder and CEO, MeetMoi and Peter Shankman, CEO – The Geek Factory, Inc., Founder – AirTroductions. For more information about the panel and event registration, see the registration page or the wiki page.

Via Facebook's news stream, I learned from birthday girl Erica O'Grady about the "Got Social Media" event in Houston on January 24th. $50-65 for 4 very good speakers from Social Media, Technology, Design, and Marketing seems a very good price. I know Erica and Giovanni Gallucci and believe the others will be good as well. (Note: I'm not really attending, but this is their graphic. I would if I could.)

Finally, for those looking a little farther ahead, the Society for New Communications Research is having their New Communications Forum 2008 in California in April. There are some early bird discounts if you sign up before 2/15/08.

If you have events, make sure you send them to me at email name "publichoward" at the domain "gmail." Also, publish your events at Confabb! Finally, we're going to be posting Social Media jobs here on this board. Click the link above to post your jobs. First person to email me about this gets a free month of their posting.

Tagged with: social media, web 2.0, conferences, marketing, sncr

Don't beam Spock Up

Dec 21, 2007 at 06:44 PM by Mr. Howard Greenstein
Since there's not much of a conference market in the late December timeframe, I thought I'd write a quick bit about the latest Social Network service to get it wrong - Spock.com. Spock attempts to beam you up by creating a Borg collective of friends that all seem intent on assimilating you. In the picture

you can see that between 12/9 and 12/17 I got over a dozen requests to add me, or notifications that I had been added to Spock. And many of the people (whose names have been redacted per Starfleet Directive Alpha 65 -- ok I'll stop with the Star Trek jokes now) are really my friends. In fact, when I started getting these notes I was a member! I had signed up early, when it looked like this service might have some value in aggregating people and content around them. Continue reading...
Tagged with: spock, socialnetwork, socialmedia

Le Web Day 2

Dec 12, 2007 at 12:48 PM by Mr. Howard Greenstein

Today at LeWeb it was the Startup Competition, and TechCrunch UK reviewed it and posted the winners here including GooJet, a mobile social network and phone customizing software package (currently in closed beta.)

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Tagged with: leweb, leweb3, paris, social, media

Le Web 3, Day 1 review

Dec 11, 2007 at 10:06 PM by Mr. Howard Greenstein
I'm not at LeWeb 3, so I'm doing a sweep of blogs to see what people are discussing. Joi Ito - my friend and the ubiquitous ambassador of the Interwebs from Japan spoke about Gaming, and running a guild in World of Warcraft. As Susan Kish notes in her piece on the LunchOverIP blog
"for kids the internet is ubiquitous, it is not something you log in / out of. The internet is part of the real world, it is not like you are offline when your mobile is in your pocket." (emphasis is hers). Continue reading...
Tagged with: leweb3, leweb, paris

This week, the news is at LeWeb 3

Dec 10, 2007 at 07:58 PM by Mr. Howard Greenstein
The big conference this week is LeWeb 3 in Paris. As I did not have le budget (Je dois faire attention à mon budget) I hope to give a bit of a summary here as to what people are writing.
Tagged with: leweb3, leweb, paris

Web 2.0 for Business: How Social Networking, Personalized Profiles and Web 2 technologies will change the way we work

Nov 30, 2007 at 01:19 PM by Mr. Howard Greenstein
I spoke yesterday on a panel at the Eastern Technology Council at Penn State Great Valley. My host and the panel moderator was Thomas Cozzolino of Liquid Hub, and the panelists include Anthony Gold of Unisys, Liza Potts of Electronic Ink, Matt Baldwin of BEA, Sean Vandermark of Microsoft, and Derrich Beauchamp of Vignette.

The panel discussed the definition of Web 2.0, but often came back to terms covered in Tim O'Reilly's original article on the topic.

My key take aways were that Context, Communication and Collaboration are the watchwords, and when a Web 2.0 or Social Media application enables one or more of these things, it is usually successful. An example of Context is Del.icio.us or similar social bookmarking or rating sites. Communication - helping us find each other, is a hallmark of social networks such as Facebook. And Collaboration - many examples come to mind, but as this was an Enterprise-focused event, much of the discussion was around how exisiting systems could be retrofitted, expanded, or joined to let users find, communicate or collaborate with each other.

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Tagged with: social media, web 2.0, eastern technology council, collaboration

Futures of Entertainment Conference 2 at MIT

Nov 19, 2007 at 05:13 PM by Mr. Howard Greenstein
This past weekend at MIT, I attended the Futures of Entertainment Conference. It was the second year of the the conference, and I had heard great things about it from last year's attendees. FOE2 didn't disappoint, as the team at the Convergence Culture Consortium put on an event that was very in-depth and thought provoking. The attendees were a good mix of academics, advertising execs, broadcasting folks and internet media and technology company employees. There were people from Turner, AOL, Yahoo, Universal, Hill/Holiday, as well as the New School, MIT, Harvard, and more. Continue reading...
Tagged with: socialmedia, foe2, convergenceculture, entertainment, mobile

About Mr. Howard Greenstein

Howard Greenstein, Social Media Strategist and Evangelist and President, The Harbrooke Group. Harbrooke helps firms understand and adopt the technologies and practices that allow them to better communicate with their customers.

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