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Social Media Conferences: New York, San Francisco, London, Boston, Miami and Paris

Luke Brynley-Jones — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:24:03 +0000

I’m pleased to announce a series of excellent social media monitoring and marketing conferences that my event company – Influence People – will be hosting over the coming months (see below). In celebration, we’re running a 2-for-1 offer on tickets bought between now and 5pm on 1st Sept. Just book your ticket, then email your confirmation to info@influencepeople.com with the name/email of your guest and we’ll issue them a free ticket. If you haven’t been to one of our events – here’s a taster video…

** Social Email Marketing – SAN FRANCISCO (17th Sept) **
Join Brian Solis and friends for insights into how to integrate social media and email. Including Constant Contact and Strongmail.
Book tickets here: http://socialmediamarketing.co.uk/socialemail/

** Social Media Advertising – LONDON (20th Sept) **
Includes Facebook ads, mobile ads, social gaming, promoted tweets and b2b social ads. With speakers from Mindshare, Unruly Media, RockYou and Techlightenment, it’s the ultimate social media advertising conference.
Book tickets here: http://socialmediamarketing.co.uk/socialadvertisinglondon/

** Social Media Marketing & Advertising – MIAMI (30th Sept) **
Includes location marketing (Gowalla/Foursquare) and social graph optimisation, plus blogger outreach and networking.
Book tickets here: http://socialmediamarketing.co.uk/socialmarketing&advertisingmiami/

** Monitoring Social Media – BOSTON (5th Oct) **
Includes Radian6, Brandwatch and how to gauge the ROI of social media, with speakers from Forrester and Compete.com
Book here: http://www.monitoringsocialmedia.co.uk/boston/

** Monitoring Social Media – SAN FRANCISCO (21st Oct) **
Marcel LeBrun (CEO, Radian6) and friends discuss social media monitoring, including sentiment analysis and ROI.
Book here: http://www.monitoringsocialmedia.co.uk/sanfrancisco/

** Monitoring Bootcamp – SAN FRANCISCO (22nd Oct) **
Social media monitoring training with some of the world’s leading experts
Book via Monitoring Social Media San Francisco

** Monitoring Social Media – NEW YORK (4th Nov) **
Seth Grimes, Marshall Sponder and friends explore social media monitoring, with a great pharma industry case study and more.
Book tickets here: http://www.monitoringsocialmedia.co.uk/newyork

** Monitoring Bootcamp – NEW YORK (5th Nov) **
Social media monitoring training with some of the world’s leading experts
Book via Monitoring Social Media New York

** Monitoring Social Media – LONDON (22nd Nov) **
Join me, Giles Palmer (Brandwatch), Philip Sheldrake, Synthesio and friends to explore the latest monitoring techniques.
Book tickets here: http://www.monitoringsocialmedia.co.uk/london/

** Monitoring Social Media – PARIS (7th Dec) **
The day before Le Web, we are inviting French and European monitoring experts to join us for a day of case studies and discussion. Email info@influencepeople.com if you’re interested in taking part.
Website: to be launched.

Is Flawed Influence Measurement Better Than No Influence Measurement?

Luke Brynley-Jones — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:16:36 +0000

Shigero Miyamoto - One of the Time's 100 most influential people of the year

I just spotted the bit in LinkedIn Groups that identifies “Top Influencers this week”. In the Connected Marketing Network Group I’m apparently the Top Influencer this week. The fact is though, I’m the Manager for that Group so I add lots of comments and generally hang out there a lot. On the other hand, there are members who post much more insightful comments and who are certainly (in real life) far more influential than me.

At our Social Media Monitoring Bootcamp in London in March, Philip Sheldrake ridiculed the influence calculations of Twitter monitoring solution Klout – highlighting how they were calculating influence based on what they could, not what actually reflected the real nature and complexity of “influence”. The same seems to be the case for LinkedIn: the number of posts you make is no reflection of how influential you are. It might indicate how committed, networked or bored a person is, but not how much they are influencing people.

This raises the obvious question, is a flawed measurement better than no measurement? Or are we just trying to ascribe value to something far too nebulous, fuelled perhaps by the personal vanity of people (like me) who love to be defined as “influential”.

We’ll be talking about this more at Monitoring Social Media Boston, San Francisco, New York, London and Paris. Hope you can make one of them!

Monitoring Social Media 09 – Invitation to Media Partners

Luke Brynley-Jones — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:24:01 +0000

Are you working in the social media space? Do you have an audience that is keen to know more about social media monitoring? If so, we should talk. Our Social Times is inviting proposals for media partnerships for MSM09. We recently agreed joint promotional deals with with Media140, Social Media in Business and The Experiential Marketing Forum and we are now seeking additional partners to widen our network and share in the benefits of this high profile event.

Media partners can include:

Traditional media – press and publications
Marketing, PR and Tech websites
Event organisers
Bloggers and social media “mavens”

If you’re interested in sharing the Monitoring Social Media 09 story with your readers or subscribers, we will be happy to supply text and materials to support your story. We are also open to helping you spread the word about your related events or services. This might include adding a logo and summary, with a credit (back-link), to our website, or working up a full partnership. For more information contact us.