Lets Write 100 Conference Sessions WE Want to Attend

Building On-the-Fly Collaboration Centers

Learn how to take mesh, bluetooth, cell phones, video cameras, and a few simple software applications and create a platform to create, edit, synthesize, and distribute information rapidly and with little overhead. Applications of this technology include news media, entertainment, medical reporting, and more. A working demonstration will follow, starting from scratch, and ending at fully functional.

Building the Creative environment: How to build a workspace that helps generate ideas without killing the ones you already have.

The Boomerang Generation: Reverse Mentoring Your Boss on Web 2.0

How many times have you wished that the Boomer-aged executives who run the company actually understood the basics of web 2.0? Or has one of them cornered you like an addict looking for a fix begging to know what RSS means? What is the best way to impart the news to your 50-something supervisor that wikis are not a new lapdance from Hawaii? How should you deal with that sinking feeling when you realize you actually DO know more than your boss (this is the age of transparency, after all) but are expected to help them so they can continue earning 5-times your salary?

It’s funny that you said Boomerang Generation, because that is what people want to call my generation because we keep moving back home after college.

How to really blog for your business

Forget the blogging advice you think you know. What works for affiliate spammers doesn’t work for your business. Learn real strategies.

Information Overload:

How to navigate through the thousand blogs that are out there in order to stay up to speed without losing your mind.

With new blogs popping up daily and a never-ending stream of ideas, concepts and discussions, how do you get your head around all the information floating 24/7 on the web?

ps: if anyone figures this out, let me know..

Rivers & Ripples, Tides & Tsunamis: The propagation of ideas.

Hobby tribes, social media, group-forming networks, call it what you will, ideas survive and grow in a network in a way that simply did not exist in the past.

The impact of conversational media on creativity and innovation

Look at the trajectory of an idea from an ill-formed thought to a fully formed product. Most of the traditional tools like Office are designed to polish and present. Now we have tools like chat, twitter, blogs and comments which support the conversational end of creativity. This has a significant impact on the quality and survivability of good ideas

Breaking Through the Digital Ceiling

Experts will identify strategies for getting heard and how to effectively advocate for your technology program as well as how to break through the barriers relating to budgets, resources and lack of vision by upper management.

(Side note: I organized this session for the Women Who Tech TeleSummit happening on March 31st – http://www.womenwhotech.com but I would love to see this session happen at other conferences since it’s a huge issue that needs to be addressed).

Online Free Speech VS Your Job
As more bloggers are being reprimanded and/or fired for blogging on their personal time and outside of work, how can bloggers freedom of speech be protected. As the blogshphere grows what are the legal implications?

Applicant 2.0:
How students and employers are using opportunities and media on the Web to source and show off their fresh talent.

World of Warcraft: How playing a game together can increase a team’s communication and productivity.

Initiating more people into Social Media

We have to bridge the gap between the users/practitioners of the social media and the non-users. What is the best way to do this? What caution do we adopt to prevent them from running the other way.

Book ‘Em, Dan-O
How Indie Musicians ACTUALLY Land A Booking Agent

Does it seem like booking agents and record labels ignore you until you don’t really need them? Believe me, they do. But here’s how you can fool a booking agent into THINKING you don’t need them, thereby getting their business.

NeuroSociety – In some ways, those leveraging the current collective via social networking’s tools are a subculture. What are the benefits this neurosociety realizes that mainstream doesn’t. What happens to the new minority when the neuro SM collective becomes mainstream?

Maybe more of a conversation, than a presentation.

Social Media and Measurement – Clicks, Hits, Adds, Reads, Subscriptions, Comments, Trackbacks and really important things that aren’t easily counted

How conversational marketing/social media/we-media is changing how we view value in the marketplace. Why ROI seems to be missing the “I” (investment) lately and why there wont be one accepted model.

Why Your Company Needs a Community Builder

Using social media tools for your business takes more than setting up a blog, a Facebook profile and a twitter feed. You need someone who is passionate about your product and its community. Someone who understands the ins-and-outs of social tools and their etiquette.

Why Social Media is/is not Marketing and is/is not PR

Social Media is a little bit country (PR) and a little bit Rock & Roll (Marketing). How the two need to communicate better amongst themselves and change the way they communicate with the user.

Outreach and Communities – Why Retail Politics works and why its lessons are so important to Social Media initiatives.

Trying to yell at/sell at users is going the way of the dodo. The goal is to connect with users on their terms and the spaces and places of their choosing. This requires a lot of hard work to understand these folks outside of demographics and requires investment (time, money, product, listening) in the community over a long period of time. ROI needs to remember what the I stands for (and it isn’t “Immediate” or “Intense”). Discuss in the context of Retail politics seen in the recent presidential primaries.

Panel Discussion:”We Were Wrong(www)”

What happened to your brilliant idea for a web site/community/application from the time it was imagined to the deployment that was not embraced by the target audience.

Books You Need to Read About Social Media

This could be a group discussion. This area seems to be changing quickly. Every few months there are new influential books with great ideas. It can be challenging to keep track of things.

I’d love to see something on education. Maybe something like Education 2.0: the future of the formal education system.

I think a lot of us realize the formal education system needs to change and evolve to meet the changing world, and I’d love to see a discussion/session about where it should be going.

Agree with @Lori. Similarly, a panel on “setting your employees free” and how they can be your best advocates online through transparency and evangelism.

What Social Media Medium Is Right For My Business?

So many businesses jump into social media and end up failing not because their strategy is poor but because they chose the wrong one to launch from.

“Why you should be up here instead of me”

Kicking the lurkers into action: addressing their concerns (embarrassment, preparation, skill, whatever), providing tips, trick and encouragement.

What a sideways organisation really means

We all know that we’ve moved from hierarchical to networked, from proprietary to open, from vertical to horizontal. But have we really?

The power remains in the PowerPoint. And until we dismantle something, it’s going to stay that way. It’s not about social media or the underlying technology, it’s about community. Community within the enterprise, community beyond the enterprise.

So what is it that we have to dismantle? And will we ever? Does anyone care?