Karly Hand – Karly Hand @identitycrisis Erin Portman – Erin Portman PR @erinportman Brian Solis – PR 2.0@briansolis Peter Shankman – HARO @skydiver In a world riddled with ADD are PR agencies still relevant? Solis – Twitter is changing everything – an opportunity as communicators / brand managers.  Real-time flow.  Is it distracting? Where do [...]








A panel that seems to also have a film / tv bent – but with basic principles that I may find helpful. Burnie Burns – Rooster Teeth Productions – red versus blue community founder. Scott Kirsner – CinemaTech Brett Gaylor – RiP: A Remix Manifesto – opensourcecinema.org founder Jonathan Coulton – Jonathan Coulton – singer [...]








I just spent the funniest hour of this conference in a flashmob-anti-panel, panel organised by all the Britons here.   The chosen hashtag is #kebab.   A wry poke of fun at the whole event the UK versus US and why we don't understand each other.  @hermioneway captured a lot of #kebab on film. there [...]








I met Jess Search at breakfast this morning at Joe's cafe.  We got chatting as two Brit girls abroad do when they meet in a queue!   Branded content / Advertiser funded programming in film making was an issue that started in the last recession (2000) and I brushed up against it a few times. Jess [...]








Jeff Howe – Wired magazine Maike Samson crowdspring.com David Carson david Carson Design (I am not in Jeff’s book) Lydia Mann  AIGA Jeffrey Kalmikoff Threadless (we’re in Jeff’s book) Jeremiah Owyang Forrester What is spec work? Done without compensatio for the client’s consideration.  There is now a marketplace where consumers of graphic work can post [...]








Kicking off another packed day!  I also want to get to the Bloggers Lounge and the Trade Show where #digitalmission is showing








I have great hopes for this…. the industry needs some serious insight and motivation for change. Clients say their advertising isn't working any more.   I am trying to get to a different outcome – if we think about it as interruptive it will continue to be crap.








Where extraordinary customer service is the norm. 75% of customers are repeat customers. Put marketing spend into improved customer experience and encouraging repeat custom and word of mouth advocates.








Thsi was a wide-ranging discussion around a range of different situations from the audience. Here is a list of the top 25 things you can do including the first 2 steps you MUST take before setting up a community group.








there comes a point when tech is distributedwidely enough to make value for society and at that point you can make a decision about whether to adopt it. We are looking for ways to reconnect as we did in the past (cue photo of Breughal party). Partivipants to our culture to varying degress of importance. [...]