Buzz 09

I don't normally do a whole lot of promotional blog posts. I certainly mention speaking engagements that I have and sure I like to plug the events that friends of mine are doing, though obviously I only plug them when I think they are valuable.

But I want to draw special attention to the one-day conference (Buzz09) that Lindy and Maddie are putting together in July. It is a "Social Media for Associations" conference that gets serious about social media and word of mouth. This isn't a "so what is Twitter?" conference. It's for senior-level marketing or membership staff, or CEOs of smaller associations, who are seriously focusing on social media.

You don't get this opportunity every day. Guy Kawasaki is doing the lunch-time keynote. He actually created a separate Alltop page for association management, as part of this event. Alltop--that gets 45,000 visits per day! Representatives from national companies like National Geographic and California Tortilla will talk about what they are doing. And this is all for a fairly intimate group of less than 100 people!

Maddie's post describes the details of what you'll get pretty clearly. I know our budgets to go to conferences are limited, but this is one that should likely be bumped up in the priority list.