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I just got back from the Economics of Social Media conference put on by Rafat Ali, Staci Kramer, and the rest of the PaidContent crew and it was really an excellent event. One-day conferences are great because there's no filler. There's no scrambling to populate 50 panels with people who may or may not be the best choices to speak. There's also no deciding which of 6 rooms you want to be in every hour. One track. One room. All superstars. (Needless to say, I wasn't a speaker.) For Rafat's first conference, they really knocked it out of the park. Not every panel was an A+ but there were no duds and they clearly had the right people on stage in most cases. The only awful thing about EconSM though -- as is the case with most conferences -- was the design of the conference badges... - Read Full Entry...

I just got back from the Economics of Social Media conference put on by Rafat Ali, Staci Kramer, and the rest of the PaidContent crew and it was really an excellent event. One-day conferences are great because there's no filler. There's no scrambling to populate 50 panels with people who may or may not be the best choices to speak. There's also no deciding which of 6 rooms you want to be in every hour. One track. One room. All superstars. (Needless to say, I wasn't a speaker.) For Rafat's first conference, they really knocked it out of the park. Not every panel was an A+ but there were no duds and they clearly had the right people on stage in most cases. The only awful thing about EconSM though -- as is the case with most conferences -- was the design of the conference badges... - Read Full Entry...

I just got back from the Economics of Social Media conference put on by Rafat Ali, Staci Kramer, and the rest of the PaidContent crew and it was really an excellent event. One-day conferences are great because there's no filler. There's no scrambling to populate 50 panels with people who may or may not be the best choices to speak. There's also no deciding which of 6 rooms you want to be in every hour. One track. One room. All superstars. (Needless to say, I wasn't a speaker.) For Rafat's first conference, they really knocked it out of the park. Not every panel was an A+ but there were no duds and they clearly had the right people on stage in most cases. The only awful thing about EconSM though -- as is the case with most conferences -- was the design of the conference badges...

I just got back from the Economics of Social Media conference put on by Rafat Ali, Staci Kramer, and the rest of the PaidContent crew and it was really an excellent event. One-day conferences are great because there's no filler. There's no scrambling to populate 50 panels with people who may or may not be the best choices to speak. There's also no deciding which of 6 rooms you want to be in every hour. One track. One room. All superstars. (Needless to say, I wasn't a speaker.) For Rafat's first conference, they really knocked it out of the park. Not every panel was an A+ but there were no duds and they clearly had the right people on stage in most cases. The only awful thing about EconSM though -- as is the case with most conferences -- was the design of the conference badges...