Today marks the start of the first Blog Potomac conference, which claims to be the premier social media marketing event in the DC area. Given the list of speakers, it looks like that claim should hold up.

Last night was the VIP and speakers dinner in Clarendon, which I somehow managed to sneak into. Rohit Bhargava, the author of the recent book “Personality Not Included” gave out copies of his bood. And, then he performed a social experiment where he has everyone write out what they would do if they had a second copy of the book. The suggestions were mixed up and handed out around the table. As roughly 1/2 of the people at the dinner already had the book, they committed to following through with whatever the suggestion was. Some of those included — “Giving them to charity, along with 3 hours of consulting time,” “Leave it on the metro,” or “Give it to the most clueless person in first class on your next flight,” etc.

Assuming the connections hold up, and my batteries last out; I’m planning on blogging as much as I can of the conference, so stay tuned to this site.

Filed under: Education and Training, Social Marketing on Friday, June 13th, 2008 by Simon Heseltine |
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