Yahoo's acquisition of del.icio.us was well timed a few days before the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco. I look forward to catching up with friends and coleagues at the event which is put on by IDG World Expo.
Keynotes and Featured Speakers
PR guru Larry Weber, Chairman and CEO of W2 Group, and Jonathan Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems, will deliver the keynote addresses. Joining them as featured speakers are industry leaders Scott Gatz, Senior Director of Personalization Products, Yahoo! Inc.; Jessica Perry, Senior VP, Business Development & Marketing, Dow Jones; Jeremy Allaire, Chairman and CEO, Brightcove; Scott Anderson, Director, Enterprise Brand Communications, HP; Stephen Lovett, General Manager, Windows, Microsoft Corp.; and conference program chairman Doc Searls, Co-Author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Senior Editor, Linux Journal.
Conference Track Topics
• The Syndicated Media Environment: Explores how syndication works, how it's being applied by old and new media companies, how and why different media companies choose to free or lock up their content, what syndicated content search engines are and how they differ from traditional search engines, and how to follow audience and topical trends in real time.
• Syndicated Company & Product Environments: Discusses how companies of all sizes (from corporate titans like GM to your neighborhood book stores) are syndicating all kinds of content in pursuit of real business goals – and how companies take advantage of both corporate and individual blogs to relate more closely to their customers – and allow their customers to relate more closely to them.
• Syndicated Technologies & Trends: Explores new syndication technologies, standards, trends and practices. Subjects include: mobile RSS, tagging, structured blogging, wikis, vertical market syndication, attention tracking, social software, IRC, and new areas where hundreds of million dollars of venture money are flowing.
• Syndicated Public Relations: Shows how leading PR pros are using blogs, podcasting, RSS, and a new crop of search and tracking tools to build relationships with a new group of influencers while finding innovative ways to stay in touch with established target audiences and communities of interest.
Conference Speakers
Among the many speakers at the Syndicāte conference, there are C-level’s, president’s, senior VP’s and founders from organizations such as: CNET Networks, Yahoo!, Washingtonpost.Com, Blogads, Google, E-Loan, PubSub, Technorati, Knight Ridder Digital, Burson-Marsteller, Dow Jones Consumer Electronic Publishing, Ketchum, Microsoft, ZDNet, Pheedo, SimpleFeed and many more.
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