Thursday, June 08, 2006

Researching for What MySpace Means in the US

I’m flying to San Francisco tomorrow with Engagement Alliance advisory board member (and What MySpace Means presenter) Adriana Cronin-Lukas. While in the Bay Area, we’ll attend Techdirt Greenhouse, an event being put on by the corporate intelligence firm Techdirt. I attended the very first Techdirt Greenhouse, back in February, and am delighted that I can make it to the second. I daresay there will be lots of interesting discussions which will feed into our event on June 21st.

On Sunday, I’ll watch Adriana present at Vloggercon, a conference for video bloggers (or video podcasters, depending on your preferred term). There will no doubt be many excellent conversations held about the cultivation of communities through video blogging, and especially with the likes of YouTube blowing up business models all over the place, the entire event should be quite interesting. With attendees and speakers at Vloggercon who have mobilised the demand side of the web to supply its own entertainment online, I should return to London with plenty of fodder for What MySpace Means.

I will, of course, be connected during my trip and hope to blog the details of each event here. Stay tuned.