Connected Marketing Week is behind held next week in San Francisco from August 16-20, 2010 and Jeff Pulver’s 140 Characters Conference is smack in the middle of it.
The content and focus? Evolving into a network of people constantly connecting, communicating and sharing, the dynamics by which people interact both with each other and information has fundamentally changed.
Realizing that success in marketing today requires an advanced understanding of how consumers and audiences are connecting, sharing their passions and influencing others.
ClickZ, leveraging its insight and expertise in the digital industry, has launched the first ever Connected Marketing Festival, bringing a community of organizations and events together fostering professional development, and greater technical insight into this developing field.
They’ll garner discussions around search, social, and SEO optimization (workshop on this alone). They plan to host more than 8000 attendees and showcase more than 200 sessions, with revered speakers from around the globe.
There is an Email Marketer’s Toolkit For Success workshop where you can compare your email marketing goals and campaigns with best of breeds in your category.
You’ll get a review of marketplace winners and losers and then dive into expert-led topical training that will help you define the right strategy, implement it, measure results and promote replicable success across your organization.
They’ll also have a Search Engine Optimization Training session led by Bruce Clay, an industry recognized expert on SEO.
The workshop offers strategy and tactics necessary in today’s fast changing search world. The course, which covers SEO methodology, concepts and strategies, will provide the process needed to achieve significant traffic.
Renee Blodgett is the founder of We Blog the World. The site combines the magic of an online culture and travel magazine with a global blog network and has contributors from every continent in the world. Having lived in 10 countries and explored nearly 80, she is an avid traveler, and a lover, observer and participant in cultural diversity.
She is also the CEO and founder of Magic Sauce Media, a new media services consultancy focused on viral marketing, social media, branding, events and PR. For over 20 years, she has helped companies from 12 countries get traction in the market. Known for her global and organic approach to product and corporate launches, Renee practices what she pitches and as an active user of social media, she helps clients navigate digital waters from around the world. Renee has been blogging for over 16 years and regularly writes on her personal blog Down the Avenue, Huffington Post, BlogHer, We Blog the World and other sites. She was ranked #12 Social Media Influencer by Forbes Magazine and is listed as a new media influencer and game changer on various sites and books on the new media revolution. In 2013, she was listed as the 6th most influential woman in social media by Forbes Magazine on a Top 20 List.
Her passion for art, storytelling and photography led to the launch of Magic Sauce Photography, which is a visual extension of her writing, the result of which has led to producing six photo books: Galapagos Islands, London, South Africa, Rome, Urbanization and Ecuador.
Renee is also the co-founder of Traveling Geeks, an initiative that brings entrepreneurs, thought leaders, bloggers, creators, curators and influencers to other countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public in order to educate, share, evaluate, and promote innovative technologies.
