conferences

Today I wish to share with you the key points that I took away from my participation in Day One of the Customer Insight & Analytics Exchange conference taking place in London.

Today I wish to share with you the key points that I took away from my participation in Day One of the Customer Insight & Analytics Exchange conference taking place in London.

This is the script of an interview I gave for a Romania business journal “Business Review Romania” in June 2012. The interview is published in instalments. This is part 1 of 5

What trends have you identified in corporate social media management at the moment? Does Romania align to these trends (or what must Romanian companies do to do that)?

by: Jason Miller

Conference-goers know that at any given meeting, they will be subjected to a range of presentations – some interesting, others, well, not so interesting. Conference organizers don’t like to offer a podium to inept or boring presenters, of course – bad performances will drive away the paying customers. The approach conference organizers usually employ is to poll the audience about each presentation, asking about the content, the quality of the presentation, and so on. This is done after the fact, but at least low-scoring presenters can be crossed off the list for the next conference. Of course, this constant polling (often by paper questionnaires) is tedious and annoying for the conference attendees.

I have already written about this conference and how well run and attended it was.

Most of the presentations are now available for download. You can also see in graphic detail photos of the speakers, including a group shot with the Irish Taoiseach.

Knowing that I was going to speak at two different events within a week of one another to distinctly different audiences needing to hear a similar message, I decided to craft one talk for both Supernova and Le Web. This talk is one of my more serious talks, looking at problematic practices in social media and inviting the audience to do something about it. Fundamentally, it's a talk about visibility... about our ability to see what's happening in the world thanks to the Internet. And about our needs to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.

by: Nancy Baym

by: Dick Stroud

I spent the last couple of days chairing a conference about the Finance Industry and the 50-plus. I thoroughly enjoyed myself – just hope the conference attendees did as well.