Social Slam 2011
Last year I presented at Social Slam in Knoxville (see me at left with Ann Deeter Gallaher and Trey Pennington (RIP)); the inaugural regional blast-of-an-event you can’t miss this year. The event is going to be the best gathering of IRL social media mavens, rock stars, A-listers (yes, all the names you’re not supposed to use) you’ve been interacting with during the past year.
Please join me and so many others in this community and beyond on April 27, 2012 in Knoxville. We’re having a Tweet Up Thursday evening, so you can’t miss that, either! (Of course, it’s AFTER the VIP pre-party; 10:15 p.m. at a location TBD).
Tickets to attend are the lowest ever and quite affordable. Knoxville is a hop, skip and a jump from most states east of the Mississippi (I sang that as I typed it so I’d know how to spell it).
What’s more, the line up of speakers promises to be worth it so you can say you met them IRL. I’m so excited to see everyone this year, and you’ll get to meet up/tweet up with the likes of these keynoters:
- Gini Dietrich — professional blogger extraordinaire who takes on all things PR, marketing, social media and more at Spin Sucks and Spin Sucks Pro.
- Mitch Joel — keynoter and amazingly articulate “digital rock star” who founded Twist Image; he’s going to address the Six Pixels of Separation that define the social mediaosphere.
- Mark W. Schaefer — my buddy from the earliest days of Twitter in spring 2009 when we launched together and became fast friends. It’s his expert tutelage that drives he behind-the-scenes of this fabulous event and he does a grand job as emcee, too. He’s over at his Grow blog beating the bushes with books, presentations, video, and lots of insight.
Also IRL and presenting lots of grand content in sessions are some of these you may recognize:
- Jay Baer — author, blogger, social media rock star who writes over at Convince and Convert; we saw him last year and he did rock the house.
- Tom Webster of Edison Research who is accessible @Webby2001
- Marcus Sheridan of The Sales Lion
- Stanford Smith, Pushing Social
- Sean McGinnis of DotCoLaw
- Billy Delaney
There’s tons of great content; the audience numbers ~400, and the chance to meet everyone up close and personal is the best opportunity ever. When you can only share words on a post with folks and no one gets to touch a hand or give a hug, something is missing. That’s the prime reason I’m going…so shake a leg and join me! Seats are still available!
I can’t wait to see you!
@ginidietrich Me, too, Twin!!! Yay!
@ginidietrich P.S. You’re at 4900 points with this comment; I think we need to throw a party when you reach 5000!
@Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing Dang. I have 97 more to go.
@Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing Grrrr. It didn’t give me a point for that. 98.
@ginidietrich HILflippinlarious…now you’re pulling what I always do at your house. Love that!!!
Very excited about this event. Can’t wait to see everyone and get my learnin’ on. 🙂
Dude. Me, too! @jasonkonopinski
I’m bringing my brand of competent adequacy. Can’t wait to meet you all!
I’m bringing my brand of competent adequacy. Can’t wait to meet you all!
@webby2001 And, will you be presenting on some amazing research this year? Your session was the most insightful, as I recall. See you soon, Tom! Thanks for coming over.
@webby2001 And there will be crisp see-throughs.
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Trying this out b/c @Sean McGinnis is having trouble!!
@Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing Poor @Sean McGinnis
@EricaAllison @Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing @Sean McGinnis Pfft, poor nothing. 😉
Woo-hoo! Can’t wait! I’ll have to get plenty of rest to stay up past 10:15 and attend the after party Tweet Up! 😉
I. AM. PUMPED! I had a blast last year meeting you and many other wonderful people! I can’t wait to come back again this year and meet even more great folks, like @ginidietrich , TheSalesLion and pushingsocial . It’s going to be a blast!
@lauraclick @ginidietrich TheSalesLion pushingsocial I thought you and Pushing Social were cousins, Ms. Click!
@Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing @ginidietrich TheSalesLion pushingsocial Stan and I have talked a number of times, but we’ve yet to meet face-to-face. Excited to make that happen finally. 🙂
@lauraclick OMG @pushingsocial is going to be there!?! SO glad I’m going!
I mean…I love the rest of you all too…nuts.
It DOES look like a terrific line-up, but if I’m not there… :p
@Shonali Wait, you can’t make it? Hey, we applied to speak, too…but, we’re going! Come on! Need to meet you IRL!
You know, I’m going to a lot of events this year but none am I looking forward to more than Social Slam Jayme. I literally can’t wait to laugh it up with a bunch of people I’ve come to know and really appreciate online. 🙂
@Marcus_Sheridan SO AGREE!!! Will be nice to meet you IRL, Marcus. Thanks for coming over today!
Oh, look, @Sean McGinnis can “like” but he can’t post. He broke LifeFyre.
I can’t wait to see you Jayme and all my other Twitter buddies. I hope you all haven’t forgotten me while I’ve been somewhat absent from tweeting. Just remember, you, me, Erica, Laura, Adam, & Brad were all there before it was WICKED cool to be there. We’re the inner circle.
@jennwhinnem Was @adamtoporek there last year? I don’t remember meeting him?
@jennwhinnem @adamtoporek PS — We are the cool cats; absolute.
So, where should we TweetUp at 10:15 p.m. Thursday night? Who is from Knoxville to give us a tip on that?
@Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing OMG okay if I fall asleep during the tweetingup?
@jennwhinnem @Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing OMG. I’ll be asleep too.
Blimey, thanks @justinthesouth for catching my fatal typo in Trey’s name above. I knew that, darn it.
Sorry, peeps, if you’re having trouble commenting here…I just got word that Justin Bracket is…sent a note to our friends @livefyre.