Mitch Joel is brilliant. We know this, of course, but this is particularly brilliant. Mitch created the Pixelated Conference: a business conference you can watch at your desk, or from home on a weekend. He stole the idea from Future Now.
Now, I’m going to steal it and mix it up a bit more, and YOU can help.
The Pixelated Blog Conference Series
Here are the steps:
- Decide on a theme
- Find videos from YouTube, Blip.tv, Magnify.net, Google Video, whereever
- Write a blog post and call it Pixelated- (and then your topic)
- Insert the videos as if they’re your speakers at the event
- Tag the post “pixelated” and also “conference”
- Link to http://www.twistimage.com/blog (as homage to Mitch)
- Spread the word, and we’ll all come “attend” your conference
I think it’d be tons of fun. How about you?
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Great idea! I may launch my new blog with my own conference… Can’t wait to see what people come up with!
If I’m so brilliant, why didn’t I think of getting everyone to create their own Pixelated conference?
What a great, great idea Chris!
Thank you for pushing the idea forward. I’m going to tag and follow this post, so I can attend them all :)
Wow- I’m eager to see what you forefathers come up with. Mitch already took some of my faves with Garr Reynolds…I need an exclusivity contract…
All those Canadian’s are brilliant :)
Looking forward to some of these conferences as well, though it’s virtually impossible for me to watch a whole one, much less many other people’s. I definitely have to pick and choose and some of them exceed 40+ minutes.
While I would never deny that Mitch Joel is a genius, I think I’d have to link back to Bryan Eisenberg first as the original creator of this concept.
Finally, I think everyone needs to include Gary V’s NYC keynote. That speech just gets me pumped up!
And can we expect a Chris Brogan Pixelated Conference?
I’m working on a Pixelated Podcamp- it’ll be up over at http://www.whitneyhoffman.com by tonight- surprisingly a lot of work- almost as much as the real thing!
OK, mine is up!!
Excellent idea, Chris, to expand on Mitch’s post, which I found very valuable.
I’m interested to see what our readers think of it. Titled Pixelated: A Virtual Book Conference, we’ve got several authors of my current favorite books talking aobut their books and the writing process.
Come visit, here: http://www.booksonthenightstand.com/2008/10/pixelated-virtual-book-conference.html
Here is my pixelated conference - sweet concept!
http://jpickett1968.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/pixelated-conference-creativity-inspiration-productivity-and-success/
What a fabulous idea! I’m so excited!! I’m wondering if at the end of the week (the time i get my post up) we can have a round up with all of the participants? I want to make sure I’ve hit them all. Maybe I’ll do a full list on my blog after. I love it!
Rahaf
I like Rahaf’s idea about compiling them all - at least if everyone comes back here with their list, we can all add to our blogs.
Chris,
This is awesome. Thank you for expanding on the idea. Some of these “new” conferences are terrific.
Best wishes,
Bryan
Chris,
I’m all tracked-back, but I wanted to leave a comment anyway, and the comment is… no words of discouragement? There should have been a “don’t try this at home” warning, at least. :) This was hard, man. Put me off organizing a RL conference for sure.
And yet, I’m fairly proud of the results, and I don’t have to hire a cleaning service after the last song’s been sung. Swing by and take a look.
Now that I’ve gotten it out of the way, I’m going to visit evryone else’s conferences. Thanks for a super
memeconference idea.Regards,
Kelly