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Yesterday I moderated a panel on user generated content at the Millennials Conference put on by my friends at Digital Media Wire, an event that featured many brands, thinkers and even millennials themselves talking about media and marketing to this new generation of young people. I published two separate summaries of the event, the first … Read more
It took me a bit longer than expected to gather these thoughts together, but there was plenty of smart stuff happening at the Web 2.0 Expo this week in San Francisco. I considered doing a wrap up of sites from the event, but taking a quick look at other posts out there, it seems that’s … Read more
I recently read a insightful piece from Ben Hunt about the future of the web2.0 social experience. It was particularly relevant as I am heading to the Web2.0 Expo here in San Francisco today and will have a chance to see many new technologies later this evening at the "Booth Crawl" event at the opening … Read more
I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion yesterday at the Search Engine Strategies show in NY all about Social Media Optimization. It was interesting to see how the idea has progressed and search pros are implementing tactics and techniques for social media marketing. Though I didn’t agree with all of the views … Read more
One of my main beliefs about blogging and marketing is that the title always matters. It matters in selling a book, driving clickthroughs on blog posts or emails, on placing effective keyword marketing, and the list goes on and on. For just about everything you can do with marketing, choosing the right title is a … Read more
Over the next week, I’ll posting some of the other insights I will be taking from the event, but in the meantime here are just a few marketing ideas that struck me as remarkable or noteworthy from SxSW: Using the tag as the tagline. Everywhere you look there are signs posted telling you what tag … Read more
Last night I had nuclear tacos. You’ve probably never heard of them until last night, but as part of Mozilla’s BBQ event, the nuclear tacos were out in force. Today there are lots of images of Flickr of people experiencing nuclear pain and several images of the actual tacos and event (including the one at … Read more
This might be an odd title to a post about SxSW since the event has been going on for several days now and the "SxSW" tag is already at the top of the Technorati WTF buzz index. But regardless, I just arrived today at the midpoint of the Interactive event at South by Southwest and … Read more
I know there’s not usually supposed to be a competition between panels, but yesterday we just put the finishing touches on what I think is going to be one of the best panel lineups of the upcoming ad-Tech event in San Francisco at the Moscone Center from April 24 to 26th. The panel, which I … Read more
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the first conference event put together by Piers and the team at PSFK focused on trends and ideas. The agenda was very compelling going into it, and I did leave with many interesting insights and new ideas about marketing and communications. Though I unfortunately had to duck out … Read more
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Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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