I know, I know, so many conferences, so little time.
Nevertheless, here's a cursory list of US Media Conference dates for 2008 in case there's one in your backyard.
And, yes, you might have already missed a few so get your calendar out:
- 24/7: a DIY Video Summit Feb. 8-10, USC, Los Angeles, CA
- NAA Marketing Conference February 24-27, Orlando, FL
- We Media Feb 26-28, Miami, FL
- TED Conference February 27-March 1, Monterey, CA
- O'Reilly Emerging Tech March 3-6, San Diego, CA
- NRB March 8-11, Nashville, TN
- Mashup Camp 6 March 17, Mountain View, CA
- SXSW Interactive March 7-11, Austin, TX
- SXSW Film March 7-15, Austin, TX
- 2008 Media Summit NY March 12-13, New York, NY
- Content C & I 2008 March 12-14, Vancouver, BC
- Video on the Net March 17-20, San Jose, CA
- OMMA March 17-18, Hollywood, CA
- NAB April 11-17, Las Vegas, NV
- 2008 Capital Conference April 12-16, Washington, DC
- eMarketing Association April 15-16, San Francisco, CA
- Web 2.0 Expo April 22-25, San Francisco, CA
- New Comm Forum April 22-25, Sonoma County, CA
- Journalism That Matters April 30-May 3, Sunnyvale, CA
- Digital Hollywood May 5-8 , Santa Monica, CA
- INMA World Congress May 7-9 2008, Beverly Hills, CA
- E&P Interactive Media May 13-15, Las Vegas, NV
- Advertising 2.0 June 3-5, New York, NY
- National Con for Media Reform June 6-8, Minneapolis, MN
- Supernova June 16-18, San Francisco, CA
- Netroots Nation July 15-18, Austin, TX
- BlogHer July 18-20, San Francisco, CA
- AlwaysOn (Stanford) July 31ish, Palo Alto, CA
- New Media Expo Aug. 14-16, Las Vegas, NV
- APME Sept. 8-11, Las Vegas, NV
- Online News Association Sept. 11-13, Washington, D.C.
- Alliance for Comm Media July 9-12, Washington, DC
- Gnomedex summer, Seattle, WA
- Society for News Design Sept. 7-9, Las Vegas, NV
- Web 2.0 Summit Oct. or Nov., San Francisco, CA
- Blog World / Godblogcon Sept 20-21, Las Vegas, NV
Of course, this list doesn't include all the unconferences, BarCamps, Pixelodeon, film, music and teevee, stuff, etc.
Next list will be compiled of Christian Conferences related to Media/Technology. Gmail me your recommendations.
Thanks for including BlogHer’s annual event. i’d also like to point out that Blogher is holding two other events this year:
The 2nd annual BlogHer Business Conference is specifically designed for organizations trying to introduce social media strategies and takes place April 3-4 in NYC.
The BlogHer Reach Out Tour is designed to bring BlogHer out to members of our community who cannot get to San Francisco this July. It takes place in 6 cities over two weeks this October.
Info on all three (or I suppose eight) conferences can be found at the link you provide above.
Thanks for this great list. I’m bookmarking it for my own reference
Hi CW – Just a quick note – you list TED starting Mar 7, but the conference just ended… and my head is still in the clouds
Billy Graham called TED “one of the highlights of my entire life.” I couldn’t agree more. Live blogged some thoughts, too.
John – Thanks for the correction! It’s a typo (already amended for posterity) and what’s even more ironic is I read about TED several places yesterday and never rechecked my own list.
Also, great to hear from you and glad to hear of your TED reflections at Microclesia.
You mentioned recommendations for Christian Conferences focused on media and technology.
2008 Internet Ministry Conference – October 20-23, 2008 – Prince Conference Center Grand Rapids, MI
Of course, I’m not invited to present at any of them … I feel so put out.
Probably insane jealousy on the part of their promoters over the fact that I have a better singing voice than they.
WFX – Worship Facilities Expo – http://www.wfx-web.com
TFWM – Technologies for Worship Magazine – http://www.tfwm.com
Dean – they put on a different kind of conference for guys like you…I’ll tell you about that another time.
Anthony – will add these to my list which is still pretty small, maybe only 8 or 9 so far. I gotta do some more research. Thanks
I see Tim O’Reilly hasn’t commented here yet. Must be off coining new terms. Oh wait, maybe he’s at his own conference. Yeah, that must be it.
Cynthia – you mean like the time they had me go out the airport and lulled me into the broom closet for a week while there was some blogging-for-God conference nearby?
I mean I don’t mean to complain about free accommodations but the lighting was terrible and the food was non-existent (other than the egg-n-cheese biscuit they used to lure me in).
Cynthia …. Godblogcon looked interesting, but the link takes you to LAST year’s dates. The above associated Blog World link takes you to dates for this year in Sept. Is Godblogcon in Nov. or Sept.?
Also, fyi….I am developing a new blog that I’d love your input on. I’m still working on it, but hope to launch it soon. Right now, it’s at pastorforlife.org if you get a chance to peek at it.
Hi Paul – The Blog World / Godblogcon dates for 2008 are Sept. 20 – 21. The Blog World Expo link is good. The link for Godblogcon has not been updated yet so it still shows last year’s dates. According to the group’s facebook page (yes they have one) the link will be updated soon. We have Rhett Smith and Andrew Jackson to thank for the facebook group.
Love to help you with a new blog!