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The next Marketing Now! event has been confirmed for April 7 & 8 in Sydney - very exciting!!  And the community voted for it to be called: Connect Now!

An awesome line-up of speakers is currently being confirmed and I'll let you know who they are in a few days. The venue will be confirmed after I've had a chance to check them out in person in Sydney in a couple of weeks. I want to ensure amongst other things the wifi is capable of serving multiple users!

Six months as you know is a long time in the evolution of media, technology and open-source software and how we use these tools. The theme of the event is 'the intersection of social media, technology and enterprise'.  But I'd like your input for presentation topics. I want to ensure the presentations are pitched at the right level and you're challenged and stretched and you leave equipped with more knowledge, understanding, skills and tips to apply to your own work or business.

So what do you struggle with the most?

What would you like to learn more about but can't find enough helpful information on?

What would the event need to provide to ensure you felt it was a success?

You're probably wondering about price. It's always a tough call to get the price right. If there's good attendance it's easy to keep the price low, if there's low attendance it makes that difficult. Sponsors also help keep the price down :)  So I am doing what I can to secure sponsors and promoting it early so there's good attendance. As with all other Marketing Now! events, a portion of the profit will go to a local charity. The conference will be two days and it will be around $700 for the two days (with the early bird discount) and $380 for one day. It's a lot of money, I know, so here's your chance to influence the content of the event to ensure you get your money's worth!

So, talk to to me :)

What do you want to know?

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#mktgnow_posterous.pdf (4687 KB)

Includes the Reconnection Journey and open innovation / collaborative model for action & participation; plus the Asia Pacific debut of Spark! Active Listening technology. Enjoy!

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@servantofchaos mindmap.pdf (32 KB)

I put the Mind Node app to the test by capturing the flow of Gavin's presentation. Interesting (and useful) little app. Probably best to download the file to view as dimensions are not good for screen view. Enjoy!

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Ok we now have a poll on twitter where you can vote, the choices being:

Connect Now! Social media, technology and enterprise

Converge - Social media, technology and enterprise

Confluence - the influence of conversations. Social media, technology and enterprise

Thanks for all your ideas, input and feedback!

Vote now!

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A huge thank you! to everyone who provided ideas and suggestions for a new name for Marketing Now!  There was general agreement that it's not about the technology, it's about people and conversations. But that technology plays a fundamental role and provides new tools and platforms to facilitate the conversations and ideas and the coming together of the community. And that these tools and this new era of transparency is having a profound affect on; how we interact as a society, previously accepted business ethics and our purchasing decisions.

So here's a short-list in no particular order. If you have any other brainwaves please chime in! I'm in planning mode for the next events so would like us to have a name in the next couple of weeks.

Converge - Where social media, technology and business intersect

Connect Now! - Where social media, technology and business converge

Confluence - The influence of Conversation 

Conversation Summit - Where social media, technology and business intersect

Conversation Now! - Where social media, technology and business intersect

Many thanks

Siobhan

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This is a YouTube playlist.

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Here's what we tweeted about over the two days - and ever since - using the hashtag #mktgnow.

The first one I took out the hashtag #mktgnow (which was obviously by far the biggest word otherwise).

Then I took out twitter usernames so we could see the themes.

Enjoy!

   

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Marketing_Now_wordles.zip (345 KB)

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