4
#SMBF Recap
I was fortunate to be asked to speak at the Social Media Business Forum on October 23rd. It was a very well-attended event and my second local speaking event in the last few months. It also gave me a chance to meet some of the people who I interact with via Twitter and other social networks.
A few thoughts about the event:
- I actually was a 6th grade teacher and had taken classes at NCCU in the same rooms where the event was held.
- I am TERRIBLE at putting a Twitter avatar to an actual face.
- While my session was about using social media to reduce paid search spend, most people had few questions about actual campaign management. I think it was due to many people in the room not being paid search managers.
- I realized that many of the people I interact with online are just as awesome offline. I think this is due to a few things. One, we have a great group of people in the area and two, that online interaction acts as a filter. I don’t follow or interact with anyone whom I “don’t Like.” If a person I start to follow or interact with doesn’t seem to be the type of person I want to associate with, I don’t keep interacting with them.
- I’d like to thank the guys who put on the event: Wayne Sutton, Jeff Cohen, Ryan Boyles, and Kipp Bodnar.
- Id like to thank my co-presenter Eric Miltisch of Auction Direct Used Car Sales
- I’d like to thanks everyone who attended my session and everyone that sent out Tweets summarizing my key points.
- I hate that I had to leave early, but we had a big meeting at ShareFile with a pretty big virtual data room client.
- I think Twitter ate all my Tweets that I sent out on Friday thanking everyone. I owe you guys. I know who you are. THANKS!
I’m looking to speak at more events in the area and if you’d like me to talk at your event, just let me know.
if you saw my session and would like to learn more about paid search, or marketing in general, feel free to reach out to me.
Photo Credit: @1918
Hi Dan. Although I wasn’t able to attend SMBF, I enjoyed reading everyone’s tweets from the event. I very much agree that we have a great group of people in this area — we are lucky to be in Raleigh. Hopefully I’ll meet you in person soon and also hear you present on social media topics, marketing and more.
Erin,
Thanks for the comment.
Twitter was a great way to get info from the sessions I missed. It was pretty interesting to see what people thought were key points from my session.
Hope to meet you in person soon as well!
-Dan
Dan,
I too enjoyed reading your tweets from #smbf. Thanks for keeping those who could not attend informed as to what was going on. Keep the useful tweets coming!
Thanks,
Blair
Blair,
Thanks. Good to know that my tweets are useful.
-Dan