SoCon09: Oh the people you meet outside the perimeter

Posted by Jon Gatrell
February 8, 2009

#SoCon09 basically proved it was Atlanta’s premier Social Media event yesterday without question.  The event however was not located in Atlanta, much to the chagrin of Andrew Wilson, who just might understand that Atlanta has a brand identity issue.   The conference had record attendance of like 325 folks.

Some of the highlights from my perspective:

So who was there? A bunch of people, but to highlight a few and create pseudo blog roll:

At the end of the day, a big thanks has to go out to Leonard Witt, Sherry Heyl and all the folks at KSU.  The event clearly shows that technology interest and expertise isn’t in short supply in Atlanta.   As a follow up, I started trolling through the event tweets and the tweet below made me ask myself a question: So why would we wait until next year to synch up?

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We shouldn’t!  Every month ATL Tweeters and Social Media Club Atlanta meet to share ideas, discuss things we are seeing in the community and try to find ways to get just a little more social in ATL.

If I left you off the “blog roll”, I apologize, I recreated via hash tags and cards I had in my pocket – so leave a comment and your link so everyone can read other folks out there in the Greater Atlanta Area.

Great meeting y’all and see you at either ATL Tweeters or the next Social Media Club meeting.

Cheers!

~jon

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Pingback by My Urban Report » SoCon 09 WRAP on February 8, 2009 @ 2:08 pm

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Comment by Dougal Campbell on February 9, 2009 @ 12:36 pm

Heh, I was surprised you got me in your list. I was a *very* last-minute addition, so I wasn’t included on the attendee list in the welcome packet. Also, I didn’t bring my laptop, and it took me a while to get my iPhone on the wifi. Plus the general tug-of-war between wanting to listen to what the speakers were saying and wanting to tweet about it, combined with the difficulty of typing quickly on an iPhone meant that I didn’t get to post a whole lot on Twitter.

I’ll be writing up some SoCon notes myself, as soon as I can find the time. But the long-story-short version is: got some great info from some great people, and made some really good contacts which I hope will lead to fruitful projects.

I’d call it a success story :)

Pingback by SoCon09 - The Take from one YoungTechStar | YoungTechStars.com on February 9, 2009 @ 12:56 pm

[...] Witt’s Write-Up Armani Channel’s Write-Up and Links to Other Goodies Most Complete Blogroll of Participants I’ve Seen Jeff Haynie’s Blog Chris Carfi’s (Keynote Speaker, not Specifically Covered [...]

Comment by Jon Gatrell on February 9, 2009 @ 1:01 pm

I tried to make it as complete as I could. It was a good event, I will more folks had blogs to link to. Most are twitter profiles, so might best be a Twitter/Blog Roll.

cheers!

~jon

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