Over the last few weeks, we’ve been getting some awesome speaker and content suggestions. They include people who are using Twitter in a wide variety of industries and company sizes; all of them are people I’d love to talk to & learn from. If you’ve made a speaker suggestion and haven’t heard back from us yet, it doesn’t mean that your idea hasn’t been heard–you may still get an invitation from us. And, there are ways that you can start to share your story with the TWTRCON community now.
We wanted to share with you a little more about our process for recruiting speakers, where we are in the process, and ask you to start sharing your story in a number of ways now.
1. How we build the program for TWTRCON
TWTRCON is only one day long — and there is a lot of ground to cover in that one day. We try to get a blend of about 4 parts business users of real-time tools, 1 part tech industry people who are pushing the envelope with technologies that are going to change how we do business moving forward, and 1 part big thinkers who can tell us what it all means. Within each of these categories, we try for the right blend, too. We want a cross section of different industries, including some non-profits and government users of Twitter, different company sizes, and different business applications.
As you can see, there are a lot of different considerations that go into who gets a speaker invitation. Timing matters, too: we may have some invitations out to people who are too similar to the person you are suggesting, so we’ll wait to hear back from those people before issuing new invitations. And, we know that there will be a lot of changes and news in the industry between now and June 14; we want to leave ourselves some flexibility to make last-minute additions, too.
We pay attention to and track each and every speaker suggestion we get. If we don’t find a way to fit your suggested speaker into the TWTRCON NY agenda, then we will save that idea for the next event. We also learn a lot about what people are doing with Twitter and other real-time tools, which helps us do a better job of creating an interesting, well-balanced program.
2. How to get your story out there now: publish it at Social Media At Work; podcast it at Twooting
In working on the TWTRCON program, we were collecting so many business case studies and social media statistics that we decided we needed to share them in some way. So we decided to organize and publish them at SocialMediaAtWork.com. If you write up and email your case study (send it to John <at> modernmedipartners <dot> com), we will add it to the collection and share it with the TWTRCON community.
You can also tell your story via live podcast through our friends and marketing partners at Twooting.com (follow them at @thepodcast) — Bo and Ryan are looking for interesting Twitter business users to interview on their program. We’d be glad to connect you to them, or you can reach out to them directly at podcast at twooting dot com.
Either way, you’d be helping us accomplish our goal of connecting people who are using Twitter and the real-time web to transform their business, and sharing ideas about how to best use these tools.
Thanks & see you at TWTRCON NY!
