Today we had our second annual Economics of Social Media conference. The jampacked event began Monday night with our first panel and mixer at Casa del Mar in Santa Monica,…

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Almost the entire ContentNext gang is in the Los Angeles hills at the Skirball Cultural Center for EconSM, an entire day’s worth of panels and speakers on the topic of…

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This is the fourth video posted from our The Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference. The first panel video is here (Social Media CEOs), the second panel video (Social Media…

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This is the fourth video posted from our The Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference. The first panel video is here (Social Media CEOs), the second panel video (Social Media…

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As promised—although a little later than hoped due to some internal issues: the panel videos from our first conference, The Economics of Social Media (EconSM), and we will be embedding…

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Way too tired to say much else--David and Nikhil liveblogged the whole conference below--expect thank you all for a wonderful conference. Thanks to all the participants, speakers, sports, and everyone…

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As the development of mobile platforms for social nets increases at a breakneck pace. EconSM’s first main panel of the afternoon sought to put current initiatives in perspective: Peter Adderton,…

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It went very well..we had a very nice pre-EconSM mixer at CAA this evening, and a surprisingly large number of attendees showed up. After that, we had a speakers’ dinner…

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It’s showtime. Tonight our conference activities start, with the evening reception at the CAA building (only for EconSM attendees). We won’t be answering too many e-mails tomorrow or the day…

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About two-and-a-half weeks before our first conference, we’re sold out on tickets. We’ll have about 500 participants in total at EconSM, on April 26th...for those of you who registered, including…

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We’re aiming to make The Economics of Social Media on April 26 as participatory as possible, and two of the panels will be even more so than the others. We…

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In our last session before lunch at the EconSM conference on April 26th in LA, we’ll examine how social media is changing Hollywood. As broadband inches toward ubiquity and movie…

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Registration for our upcoming conference The Economics of Social Media includes membership in Connect@EconSM-- our first full-featured social network. Connect@EconSM provides a private appointment system for the conference, a community…

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For our EconSM social media conference on April 26th, we’ve added some final names into the program: these are George Kliavkoff, Chief Digital Officer, NBC Universal (also incharge of the…

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After the opening session at our EconSM conference On April 26th in LA, we’ll turn to the dual questions of how social media is changing marketing—and how marketing is changing…

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As we’re exactly 30 days away from our EconSM conference, the activity level here is at fever pitch. We’ll probably sell out of tickets in the next couple of weeks…

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At EconSM conference on April 26th, the day will start with a knockout superpanel, full of strong voices from some of the most distinctive companies in social media: Barak Berkowitz,…

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Over the coming weeks, we’ll be discussing in depth what each panel will address at the EconSM conference on April 26th in Beverly Hills. If you’re interested in who the…

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We have added some more stage-setters from the emerging companies side to out Economics of Social Media Conference (EconSM): they include Facebook COO Owen Van Natta, SixApart CEO Barak Berkowitz,…

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We have finally nailed down the program flow for our Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference on April 26th in LA. And since we always strive for transparency, it is…

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With our first conference approaching in less than 45 days, we can fill you on some of the programs surrounding the main event: a mixer for EconSM participants, April 25,…

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Our EconSM conference coming up on April 26th is shaping up well...the speaker selection process is almost over. As the industry debate heats up over monetization of social media and…

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Most days, we cover the morphing world of social media in bits and pieces. But on April 26—just 50 days from now—we’ll be with a few hundred of our closest…

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It’s a coincidence that we’re adding David Eun, vice president of content partnerships for Google, to our list of confirmed panelists the same day we cover a talk he gave…

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We have added some new names as our stage-setters: Shawn Gold, SVP of Marketing at MySpace and Rich Skrenta, CEO of Topix.net. We announced Carson Daly earlier this week, and…

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