For those of you who attended the SocialBiz 2010 conference in April, a huge thank-you for making the event such a success. What some of you may not know is that from start to finish, we produced the entire conference in a space of 63 days – from the moment the idea came to mind in late February to the day of the event.
This would have been unheard of in the past. To put on a conference of this magnitude, with speakers and presenters from all over the country, and to bring in close to 200 attendees from all the entire San Francisco Bay area was somewhat ambitious, apparently. As a first-time conference producer, little did I know that this was not the norm. But we had an advantage – with technology. The idea for the conference came to me on a Thursday, and by utilizing WordPress (and some sweat), the majority of the website was up by the end of the weekend. Within days, we were heavily using Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to publicize the event and reach out for speakers and presenters. Within a few days, we had a tremendous response and were selling tickets using an online ticketing system, Eventbrite.
In the following weeks, we continued to heavily use Social Media to promote and market the conference, as did our speakers, presenters, and many of our potential attendees. It was amazing to see the word spread across the blogsphere and socialsphere.
This conference would never have been possible in such a remarkably short space of time without the people involved and their use of social media.
So in the end, it was ultimately the people who were willing to reach out and make a connection, through the use of technology, that made this event such a success. And that’s what it was really all about – bringing people together, to exchange information and knowledge, share ideas, have conversations and make connections.
To all of you who took a leap of faith to participate, share and learn – we thank you.
