Monthly Archives: May 2008

See you at Cossette Convergence.

Convergence 2008I’m excited to participate in the upcoming Cossette Convergance 2008 here in Vancouver at the Arts Club Theatre.

I’ve been asked to speak on a panel entitled Giving Your Brand Away: Brand Communities, and will be a panelist alongside Ben Stringfellow from McDonalds USA, Thierry Hay-Sabourin from Future Shop and William Bakker from Tourism British Columbia. The panel will be moderated by Angele Beausoleil from Fjord, Cossette’s online agency.

I’m honoured to be among these amazing people, and it should turn out to be a great event.

I’m very keen to hear from the keynote speaker Grant McCracken the author of Culture and Consumption.

If you’ll be there, please let me know. And if you’re thinking of attending, you can register here.

Congrats to Flock, hats off to Facebook.

Webby Award Winners - SOCIAL NETWORKINGSo we gave it all we had, but in the end ChangeEverything.ca didn’t take home a Webby.

Truly, it was such a crazy honour just to be nominated. We got all of Vancity behind this, right up to our CEO. It was great and very fun, but it was not meant to be.

The last time I was able to check, we were in second place for the People’s Voice Webby Award, but a distant second (7%) to Facebook (78%). Needless to say, Facebook took it.

And the judged award went to the very cool Flock, the social media browser.

Here are the winners in our category of Social Networking

My Net.Finance results.

Net.Finance 2008I received my scores this week from Net.Finance. These are the accumulated scores I received from the people at my presentation on April 14th.

Highest possible score: 5
Content: 4.4
Presentation: 4.7

Comments:

  • Great presentation
  • Excellent concept, illustrative presentation, thought provoking
  • Very interesting. Would have liked a bit more info on how they built this channel
  • Great insight into social marketing
  • Great presentation, just a little fast at times

I’m really pleased, because it means people liked both my content and my presentation style (although I was called out for speaking too quickly, to which I plead guilty).

I now have results from three Net.Finance presentations: this year’s, last year’s and this past January’s Online Innovation conference.

Just as a point of reference, my scores from last year’s Net.Finance were:
Content rating: 4.72
Presentation style rating: 4.61

My results from Online Innovations were:
Content Rating: 4.5
Presentation Style Rating: 4.67

It’s nice that my results are fairly consistent, and people seem to like what I’ve been serving up. I look forward to the myriad of conferences that lie ahead for me this year.