Our First Conference: The Economics of Social Media
By Rafat Ali - Mon 18 Sep 2006 06:10 AM PST
We’ve announced our first conference: the theme and the name of our first conference, in the works for several months, will be “The Economics of Social Media”.
By social media we mean all the ways in which media, entertainment and information (MEI) industries are colliding with users as part of the mix. Another way of looking at it: Social media is a mix of genuine grassroots efforts to create media through community, and the industries trying to tap into the energy of crowds, community, and user creativity. (Wikipedia has a related definition here).
The one-day conference, planned for late-Feb-early-March in Los Angeles, will discuss the business, financial and economic aspects arising out of this, emerging business models and how that is changing the dynamics of these three industries.
We have more details of the conference on our sister site paidContent.org, here. We are also looking at starting a conference in India...if you have any ideas, let us know.
Also, like last year, I’ll be visiting India in December, and will have a networking mixer, either in Delhi or Mumbai. Will keep everyone updated on details.
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