Today I am out of the office, sitting in a conference room at the Marriott San Francisco listening to a bunch of experts speak at the Inbound Marketing Summit.
I have never been in a room with more people “tweeting” in my entire life.
Getting in the spirit of things, I have been using Twitter to take notes…so here is my stream of “Tweets” for the morning session of the Inbound Marketing Summit, in reverse chronological order. Follow me on Twitter @jasondemandbase, follow the conference by searching on Twitter for #ims09…
RT @jfouts Every company owes it to their employees to define their social media policy #ims09 @charleneli11 minutes ago
RT @GreenSmith: Awesome preso by @charleneli Slides up later at slideshare.net/charleneli #ims0911 minutes ago
RT @davemorse: #IMS09 David Meerman Scott – Don’t talk about your products… publish relevant & valuable content to specific buyer personas11 minutes ago
RT @fromechosign Sales 2.0 Ultimate Resource Guide http://bit.ly/BKm6C ConnectAndSell Demandbase EchoSign InsideView LucidEra Xactly …14 minutes ago
#ims09 “giving up control” shouldn’t be scary, too many people underestimate their prospects’ bulls!@# detectors.17 minutes ago
#ims09 – multiple speakers stressing “giving up control” and letting people talk about you on their terms. Why is that so scary?18 minutes ago
# @aargenz1 you’re right, demandbase focuses on b2b – we can ID ISPs, but value is identifying an IP when it is associated to a business.23 minutes ago in reply to aargenz1
#ims09 educating your curmudgeon about social media, identify their passion, show what social media has to offer related to that passion28 minutes ago
#ims09 do you work with a curmudgeon? “It’s too risky” – “Unproven ROI” – “It’s a fad, it’s a waste of time”30 minutes ago
#ims09 twitter question – if they limit our number of characters, why make us put a # in front of terms we want to highlight?34 minutes ago
#ims09 the only way to understand social media is to actually use it36 minutes ago
#ims09 biggest hurdle these community vendors need to overcome – amount of work to create something that people are terrified will fail?37 minutes ago
RT @paulswansen: Retweeting @Genuine: Always love when someone brings up Cluetrain in a marketing conference Bravo @rossmayfield #ims0941 minutes ago
#ims09 yay! 90 minutes in, our first mention of swine flu44 minutes ago
hilarious! RT @CommunispaceCEO: @tamicasey Kinda like “5 white men in jeans talk about community”. 
#ims0944 minutes ago
#ims09 LOL I am wearing the right uniform for the event, according to @dmscott … jeans and a jacketabout 1 hour ago
#ims09 advice for life and work, don’t criticize unless you have a suggestion on how to make things better, present in a constructive way.about 1 hour ago
#ims09 interesting question…impact of twitter on online communities? Are people tweeting about you rather than going to your community?about 1 hour ago
#ims09 – online community – empowering people to bitch and moan. In a good way!about 1 hour ago
#ims09 @chrisbrogan has mentioned beer 6 times, and it’s not even 10:30. We know where his head is at!about 1 hour ago
#ims09 @chrisbrogan “hide the broccoli in the mashed potatoes” – inbound marketing content publishing advice?about 1 hour ago
#ims09 huge fear in building an online community for your company…”if you build it, they might not come”about 1 hour ago
@dmscott says: nobody cares about your products except for you. they care about their problems.about 2 hours ago
#ims09 @dmscott on the internet, you are what you publishabout 2 hours ago
#ims09 think of the different visitor or buyer “personas” of the people visiting your website. Do you have all your bases covered? DMSabout 2 hours ago
@JoeMannaLive free wifi at #ims09 is cool, power outlets in first two rows. But it doesn’t allow VPN access! Bummer! I hate webmail.about 2 hours ago in reply to JoeMannaLive
monitoring the #ims09 stream waiting for it to start, surrounded by marketing peeps. Nice!about 3 hours ago
Sitting and checking email, waiting for #ims09 to startabout 3 hours ago
