May 13, 2008
I will be speaking about social media and blogging in May and June at the following events:
Social Rockstar Workshop - May 16. 2008 - Washington, D.C.
I will be speaking about social media and blogging and making some references to its use in the corporate environment of AOL, Tribune and Classified Ventures where he has lead blogging & social media initiatives. There are a number of local D.C. area social media experts which will be offering perspective followed by workshops.
TECH cocktail CONFERENCE TECH cocktail CONFERENCE - May 29, 2008 - Chicago, IL
I am co-hosting our first TECH cocktail CONFERENCE bringing attendees access to a day full of amazing speakers, great perspectives and advice in an intimate environment where speakers are approachable. The goal of the conference is to assist attendees by bringing them essential business startup tips, advice and knowledge from a super-cast of successful founders, developers and entrepreneurs. It should be a super day followed by our popular TECH cocktail Chicago 8 mixer event. Use the discount code: somewhatfrank to save on your ticket!
BlogPotomac BlogPotomac - June 13, 2008 - Falls Church, VA
I am giving the lunch keynote on social media Friday the 13th for the first BlogPotomac event. BlogPotomac seeks to provide a local “un-conference” on best marketing practices for the social media community in the D.C. metro area.
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April 28, 2008
TECH cocktail DC 2 the community builder event that took place last Thursday evening in Washington, D.C. showcased six startups from the local area. The event united over four hundred guests for an evening of conversations, showing off and fun.
This is the last event before the upcoming TECH cocktail CONFERENCE which will unite all the various TECH cocktail cities for a full day conference in Chicago on May 29th. The list of speakers is pretty amazing and the focus of the conference is to help anyone in business to take a more "no nonsense" approach by leveraging technology and the Web (i.e. running a "real" business rather than one setup to simply attract as many users as possible with no real monetization strategy in mind).
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March 27, 2008
If you are in the Washington, D.C. area, mark your calendars for BlogPotomac, a one day event aimed at providing advanced marketing insights beyond the average social media 101. BlogPotomac will be held on Friday, June 13, 2008 at the State Theater in Falls Church, Virginia. BlogPotomac seeks to provide a local “un-conference” on best marketing practices for the social media community in the D.C. metro area.
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February 21, 2008
I am pleased to say that TECH cocktail, the events startup that was created by Eric Olson and I back in Ma y 2006 has made a couple of exciting moves today by launching a substantial redesign of the TECH cocktail website that we have been working on for the last couple months. In addition, you might notice that we also have announced the first ever TECH cocktail CONFERENCE (or TECH CONFERENCE for short) which will take place in Chicago on May 29, 2008. Register now - it should be a great event!
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February 18, 2008
My friend Noah Kagan is hosting another CommunityNext conference called CommunityNext: Next Generation Media. I attended the first CommunityNext early last year at Stanford. This time CN will be in West Hollywood on March 29, 2008 and will be focusing on the new and social media that has been popping up across the Web. Speakers include Robert Scoble, Veronica Belmont, Brian Sugar and many others.
If you are interested in attending the event it pays to be a SOMEWHAT FRANK reader because I can offer you a discounted ticket. Just visit the CommunityNext website and when asked for a promo code tell them that "frankrules" and you should see a nice little ten percent discount in price.
If you have not already check out the 2008 web and technology conference calendar.
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January 28, 2008
Tomorrow morning I will be heading to Palm Desert, California (west of Palm Springs) to attend the DEMO 2008 conference. I am excited to see what this years event has to offer. Some of Somewhat Frank's past DEMO conference coverage included the launches of both Moobella and Blurb.
If you are also headed to DEMO and have a new product you would like me to look at or just want to sync up at the event please drop me a comment, email or direct Twitter message (here is some help on direct messaging if you need it).
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January 14, 2008
It is time to start planning your 2008 conference schedule. Last year, I pulled together a list as 2007 brought us many new conference opportunities. To make it easier to plot out your conference roadmap this year I have once again compiled a list of some of the best web 2.0, technology, design, marketing and innovation conferences and events scheduled in 2008.
If you are a conference organizer interested in having Somewhat Frank as media sponsor or if I have left an event off the list please contact me. This is meant to be a living blog post. 2008 is going to be busier then ever - happy conferencing!
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January 7, 2008
Lifestreaming has made great strides in the past year as Justin.TV strapped a camera on his head. Robert Scoble, Sarah Meyers and a number of others including myself have participated in one way or another in the lifestreaming video movement leveraging tools like UStream.TV, Mogulus and Blog.TV.
With CES taking place in Las Vegas this week and the unfortunate fact that I was unable to attend (due to my day job) I am going to take full advantage of my friends lifestreaming videos to get the feel of the conference. There is a new tool called Qik that might make lifestreaming even easier than before. Qik is an alpha product that has sprung onto the scene to enable users to stream live video directly from their mobile phone.
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November 4, 2007
How can you engage your client community via blogs and social media? Last Thursday, I spoke on a panel at The New New Internet Conference to discuss this very question. The panel consisted of Gary Vaynerchuk video blogger at Wine Library TV and Director of Operations at Wine Library, Geoff Livingston blogger at The BuzzBin and author of Now Is Gone and Rohit Bhargava blogger at Influential Marketing and author Personality Not Included and myself blogger at Somewhat Frank, co-founder of TECH cocktail a community-building event startup and product manager of myAOL. If you want to find out about social media you best watch the video and learn about blogging, engaging social media and hustle 2.0!
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November 2, 2007
The DC area was looking a little more like Silicon Valley this week, welcoming a number of prominent bloggers, social media consultants, tech company product managers, startups, VC's, and more - well, with the exception of all the dark suits in the audience which made it a great Silicon Valley/DC mashup scene. Such was The New New Internet Conference - Web 2.0 for Business, presented by Potomac Executive Biz at the Reston Hyatt on Thursday, November 1st.
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September 26, 2007
This has truly been an action packed 2007 web/tech conference season thus far. I previously listed a number of conferences to attend in 2007 but as of late a number of new ones have popped up. I wanted to highlight few additional conferences as they are approaching fast and you might want to get your tickets booked now. You will find me speaking at these three conference...hope to see you there.
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September 20, 2007
The TechCrunch40 conference has come and gone with Mint ultimately came out the biggest winner (aside from TechCrunch itself, of course) scoring the $50K award for best demo at the event. I have given some of my thoughts and impressions of a number of the TechCrunch40 companies at the conference.
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September 17, 2007
Imagine if you wanted to pull in photos, videos and music from both your desktop and multiple photo services on the Web into one place - with BlueString, now you can. BlueString, a new AOL product, has just launched at TechCrunch40 to offer a rich media aggregator for storing and sharing your memories all in one place.
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September 17, 2007
TechCrunch40, the 2007 TechCrunch launching pad conference, is upon us and you can keep up with the event just updated techcrunch40.com website. The site offers fully-featured hub for TechCrunch40, which starts this morning and continues through Tuesday evening. It will offer details about the 40 presenting companies (as they launch), the 100 demo pit companies and speaker details. The site will upload video clips of each set of presentations. The site also has Flickr photos can view photos of the conference and messages about the event via Twitter.
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August 26, 2007
Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits from around the Web gathered by Frank Gruber for the week ending August 26, 2007.
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August 16, 2007
What's new new on the Internet? If you are looking for a conference to help you find out you might want to check out this years The New New Internet Conference on November 1, 2007 in Reston, Virginia (northwest of Washington, DC).
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August 5, 2007
Photo of the Week: Barry Bonds hit home run 755 last night in a game vs. San Diego tying Hank Aaron for most career home runs in Major League history. John Feeley was in attendance and captured history with his zoom lens in this shot (shown above). Somewhat Frank Weekly...
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July 14, 2007
Pimping your ride, ripping your jeans, popping your collar and putting lime in your water are all expressions of your personality. Thus you are personalizing your experience. Your web experience can also be personalized making it your web. Personalization is all about you. Jen Consalvo, Director of Personalization at AOL,...
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July 7, 2007
I recently attended Supernova 2007, a conference in San Francisco focused on innovation, and was interviewed by Adriana Gascoigne of Bub.blicio.us, Future Works and founder of Girls in Tech. The video interview (below) is found at the 3 minute 30 second mark on this 9:03 minute video clip. In the...
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July 5, 2007
TechCrunch20, the TechCrunch conference coming up in September, is offering a platform for newly launching companies to present for free in front of an audience of hundreds of press, bloggers venture capitalists and entrepreneurs and potentially win a $50,000 prize. TechCrunch has been assembling an impressive and assorted list of...
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June 24, 2007
Photo of the Week: I checked out the view from Vista Point and snapped this photo while in San Francisco this weekend. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 06.24.07 LinkedIn Opening Platform AllFacebook.com reports a rumor that LinkedIn is considering opening their platform to developers. The role of humans in Google search...
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June 23, 2007
BlogTV is an Israel-based company that enables people to create their own live broadcast channel on the Web. Similar to UStream.tv, BlogTV empowers anyone with a webcam to create a destination channel for broadcasting live episodes. I got a chance to sit down with BlogTV Vice President of Product &...
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June 2, 2007
The Next Web conference took place in Amsterdam yesterday (June 1, 2007) and brought together a large number of key web influencers for the one day event. Read/Write Web has covered the event wonderfully. I wanted to highlight a session (shown in the video above) where Kevin Rose spoke via...
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May 29, 2007
What's next? This is a question that many may be asking. At the 2007 Next Web conference (June 1, 2007 in Amsterdam) they are hoping to find some answers. In the meantime, check out this video (above) which was posted here. It was recorded via iChat Video as Tim O'Reilly...
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May 11, 2007
Trying to figure out how to get a poll on your blog, myspace page, or other website? Your search is over. PollDaddy is a great resource for quickly generating a poll to put practically anywhere on the web. PollDaddy is both flexible and free and it can be easily embedded...
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April 24, 2007
While online video upload sites have become extremely popular in the web 2.0 movement, it appears that live streaming video seems to be catching on fast. UStream.tv offers users the ability to create their own live web channel with live chat functionality. Streaming video is by no means a new...
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April 16, 2007
Looking for a fall conference to attend? Mike Arrington, editor of TechCrunch, has just announced the details of the TechCrunch20 conference at the VC 2.0 session he moderated at the Web 2.0 Expo. The conference is being co-organized by Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington and sponsored by Sequoia Capital with...
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April 15, 2007
Photo of the week: This San Francisco Trolley photo taken by, friend and co-founder of TECH cocktail Eric Olson, was the first photo I found on Flickr related to the Web 2.0 Expo this week in SF. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 04.15.07 The Web 2.0 Expo Is Upon Us I...
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February 11, 2007
The Community Next conference was this weekend in Palo Alto at Stanford University. The event was organized by Noah Kagan and Devin Reams and focused on building and managing online communities united many of the community site leaders of the web 2.0 industry. Friday evening (February 9, 2007) at Blue...
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January 7, 2007
It is time to start planning which conferences are going to attend in 2007. To make it easier I have compiled a list of some of the best web 2.0, technology, design, marketing and innovation conferences and events scheduled in 2007. This is meant to be a working list, so...
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