Chris Brogan One Year Later

April 11, 2007 · Comments

Where Will I Be I started wondering about myself today, and I want YOUR help. A year ago, I was sitting at a desk wishing I was anywhere else. I was so sick of my enterprise wireless job, sick of being around uninspired people, sick of the fact that my passions weren’t my salary. I worked my head off, but my passion wasn’t matched to my paycheck.

Now, it is. I’m being paid to do what I love. More than I’ve ever imagined. I’m paid to run a professional conference about forward-thinking, passionate people looking towards the future of TV, film, and broadcasting. I’m paid to work on a startup that works closely with the long tail of Internet TV. I’m allowed to work on a free event called PodCamp. They even like my Small Boxes

So Where Will I Go?

Here’s where I want your thoughts and help. I want you to play “What if” with me. I want you to think about what you know about me now, good and bad, from the places where you know me, and then predict where I’ll be and what I’ll have accomplished between now and April 2008.

What’s your take? The comments section is yours to enlighten me. I’d love your ideas.

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  • It's hard to say where you'll be. You have paved the way for yourself and for others. All I know is you'll love it and you will be fantastic at it.
  • You will get due credit for what you have done for social media communities-- while still deflecting that credit to other worthy parties and bring other members of the community up with you.

    You will still be where you are-- work, home, PodCamp-- but you will have made them all different and better places with your energy and attitude--

    You will conduct further experiments with facial hair. Some successful, some frightening.

    Your additional blog posts (47 more by next February) about car troubles will shame Jeff Pulver into giving you a raise to buy a new one. Alas, you are not old enough for a midlife crisis car.
  • I see you traveling with an entourage...on your own tour bus of course...plastered with all those crazy pics you take and your name embedded in LED blinky lights either sided.
    When the bus stops it will be swarmed by all your fans screaming your name and pulling out their hair as you descend wearing a black leather shirt, blinged out sun glasses, and a pair of black and red rock star boots...no pants....'cause a man of your importance simply can not be bothered with pants.

    Call me if you need a side kick. :P
  • i stumbled on this comments list by accident - i think i am lost and what if chris who is this chris guy anyway - and who is the real chris brogan rhymes with broken - so what if what??? - so where was i - with a name like that he should be indicted in to the hall of disrupters - no thats to too - i think in a year chris brogan will be wearing his tutu with his two kids playing ninja here ninja where - oh what if - if what is my question - in what every chris who? does or doesn't do doesn't matter - its how true to his passion he does it that counts - the art of living is making your life an art - keep dreaming and screaming and streaking :-) who said that... now where was i
  • Sue
    I think you will be doing the same type of work you are doing now, only on a much larger scale, to a much larger audience. I see you as the go-to guy for all things new media. Look for Chris writing books, touring with his books, making shows, and appearing on shows (mainstream and otherwise) as the preeminent expert on new media and the online community.

    Oh, and you'll be paid huge sums of money to do all of that too. No more lemony Saturns for you, my friend! :-)
  • i think you'll be like seth godin in stature, only more concrete in your thoughts-statements-prounouncements. your writings and conversations are already so much more tangible to me than his anyway, i look forward to more.
  • Jon
    I'm out of my depth looking at your professional accomplishments and trying to make projections based on them. I just don't know the industry well enough to do that.

    I will throw this out there: "What if..." you dusted off your fiction writing skills and started writing/producing an Internet TV show or three?

    Whatever you end up doing I wish you the best.

    -Jon
  • Considering you've essentially helped create a culture where there was none a year ago, it's impossible to predict where this culture will lead you -- or where you'll lead the culture.

    My best guess? You'll be:

    - Doing something you're even MORE passionate about than what you're doing today,

    - Working with some people you already know and some who aren't even on your radar now,

    - Uniting strangers toward a common goal in a manner that disrupts their safety zones in a positive way, and

    - You'll be far more content and healthy, both physically and emotionally, considering all the uncertainty you've been tackling this past year.

    Onward and upward.
  • Yes, definitely book authorship in the works. I'd read your musings!

    Do you think you'll still be taking gloomy, weirdly lit photos of yourself? You'll have quite a collection by then! :)
  • Chris,

    I believe you will (between now and THEN):
    * tap and enhance the energy of others to make some really cools stuff.
    * Encourage others to really be social (person to person) and use that interaction to create (you are doing this now).
    * Learn about how people really interact, entertain, and enjoy.

    So THEN ( April 11th, 2008), you will have:
    * A pool of talented people on which to tap for a BHAG project you (with others) will launch.
    * You will have the talent where by people will come together without you having to "bring" them there.
    * You will have the kicked some Big Media butt in some very unexpected ways.
    * And, I think, you will be one year older... :)

    John
  • I don't think I know you well enough to even guess, but I do know that I hope I've got a similar tale to tell about myself a year from now!
  • Chris, you have brilliance, passion and presence -- an amazing ability to relate to people. A year from now you can be doing ANYTHING you want to.
  • In a year, I expect you'll be:
    Smiling more, and gritting your teeth less;
    Working with even smarter people than you already are, even if it's only because of you that they're smarter;
    Sharing more ideas, more of which will work than this year;
    Find out if this is really what you're passionate about, or if you're just passionate about it because it's the new new thing;
    Sharing it all here, so we can see how right, or wrong, we all were.

    Here's to another amazing year for you Chris. I look forward to seeing what the next 12 months bring for all of us.
  • bgavin
    My guess is that where you are in twelve months is going to be so totally different that it will make this *past* year look static.

    But I am very sure you will still be using technology tools to enable people to connect. And, I think, you will be teaching others how to do what you do. Like a "develop the developer" guru.

    Maybe the differences will not be fundamental, but simply a new color of icing.
  • You will be knighted by the queen of England.
  • Well, I think that if everything keeps going as today, Chris will have his own article on wikipedia. And he'll be posting five videos a day in HD.

    [ebarrera]
  • Chris, I would write about book about the principles of what you write about. It would be a business book on new attitudes on how you do business, grow new markets, and treat people like....people.

    Think Tom Peters meets Web 2.0
  • Sounds like he already has.
  • win the lottery
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