socially marketing

We were really looking forward to the SoCap08 conference (see previous post) so we were thoroughly thrilled to be asked by the SoCap folks to not just attend, but to present socialmarkets there!

That event is still a few weeks away, but our conference cup runneth over: we will also be presenting socialmarkets (more specifically the ideas behind it) at a conference called “Interesting New York“, next Saturday right here in NYC.

Interesting New York is just one in a group of “commercial and greed-free” globally dispersed conferences organized by The Open Intelligence Agency (OIA).  These conferences all share one simple premise: a forum for presenting ideas which are, well… interesting.

Here’s how it works: you submit a brief overview of your (allegedly) interesting idea, and if the folks at OIA find it of sufficient interest, you’re in.  Allan heard about the conference and made the submission… and happily, socialmarkets passed interesting muster - we’re in!

There are absolutely no subject constraints for candidates, so conference offerings cover an almost comically broad range of topics.  A few samplings from earlier conferences hit on the art of storytelling, why some people are better swimmers than others, and the myths vs. realities of quicksand.  I’m confident socialmarkets will fit quite neatly in there somewhere.

So… two opportunities to see socialmarkets strut its stuff live: next week in New York, and next month in San Francisco.  Of course, we will be posting links to both talks on our site as soon as possible, so even if not in real-time, we hope you’ll join us…

Our landlord, Tate Hausman, is throwing a party and you’re invited! And not only are you invited to come on in, you’re invited to be our neighbor!

The party is at The Studio Guild, 18 w 27th St, 10th floor in the Flatiron section of Manhattan on August 23rd from 6 PM to ???.

This is NOT our official housewarming but it’s an open house party for the Studio Guild which is a loose collection of nonprofit types like us all hanging out on three floors of the same building. Joomla people like PICnet and Drupal consultants like Advomatic are some of the tenants in our space. Apparently, these parties are a lot of fun too so I hope you all come on down and visit us. I’m going to be there but Jeff will not be as he’s taking a vacation in preparation for the craziness that’s going to happen when our office starts up officially on September 1st.

So what’s the real point of the party? Tate is looking for more tenants for the space and there are two desks available right next to us. So not only can you drink yourself silly, you can find office space for the Next Big Thing that you’re building. Seriously though, I’d love to have you visit us as I’ll be all by my lonesome.

If you are coming, please e-mail me at allan@socialmarkets.org.