The 170 person event will be held on March 5th at 7 pm in Ogilvy PR's DC offices. Pete Cashmore, Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins (who is speaking at the Politics Online Conference), Adam Ostrow, and myself will all be in attendance. We still have several sponsorship opportunities available, so please contact me immediately if you are interested.
Presentations will be streamed via the Web on Mashable and our 2 affiliates for this event, The Social Times and Ogilvy PR’s 360° Digital Influence group.
Thanks to Virgin America, we will have two round trip tickets to raffle off at the event (*Terms and Conditions at the bottom of the post). Virgin America serves the major “tech hubs” of the United States including San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle and Las Vegas! To enter the raffle, you’ll need to drop a business card into the box - don’t forget to bring a few with you!
Our Hosts:
360° Digital Influence is a global word of mouth marketing discipline with a methodology for identifying and engaging digital influencers and activating networks of people to share and recommend products, services and issues. We create engaging experiences designed to promote awareness, brand loyalty, advocacy and conversion. Our clients include Intel, Lenovo, Hitachi Data Systems, Double Click, CDW, Brocade and Green Power. Read more on the 360° Digital Influence Blog.
Streaming Video Partner/Presenter:
Janmedia is an international digital agency, headquartered in Washington DC, supporting clients globally. We fuse a unique blend of usability, design and technology expertise under one roof to provide rich media solutions including advanced video streaming, interactive effects and animation, custom web design, enterprise programming services, strategy consultation and catered hosting solutions.
Our Presenters:
Lumifi is a new research portal that intelligently analyzes search results, web sites or documents -- automatically extracting the most relevant topics, snippets and citations. Lumifi also features tools to annotate and manage research projects, collaborate with peers and colleagues, and publish reports to the web or to the desktop in Word.
Launching at TED 2008, kluster is a web based collaboration & decision-making platform. Everyone has ideas, we provide a platform to get them out of heads and into the world… where they belong. kluster can facilitate any decision making activity that is better served by asking a group.
Searchles is a highly scaleable social search, bookmarking, and networking platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes, while also providing online video mashup and online video editing tools. Beyond the portal itself, the Social Discovery for media solutions technology is targeted to meet the needs of original content publishers who require tools for better connecting and monetizing their audience and content as well as expanding reach.
*Virgin America Ticket Raffle Terms and Conditions
The Prize: Free Roundtrip Tickets on Virgin America valid for travel through May 31, 2008. Winners will get a promo code that will deduct 100% of the ticket base fare.