(Pic by Simon Heseltine)
It is hard for me to comprehend, but we are finally finished with ILM:07. We were grateful to have had 650 interesting and enthusiastic attendees from all over the world; 72 stimulating speakers; a full load of sponsors; and an excellent partnership with SES.
Our next conference, April 30-May 2 at the Westin in Seattle, will be a highly differentiated affair. Stay tuned for what we are doing with that (but not for a couple of months, OK?)
For those of you that can’t get enough coverage, a virtual conference will be up with all the PPTs in a couple of weeks (but only for attendees). You can also order the DVD.
For immediate gratification, however, check out the posts from my talented colleagues on the Kelsey Blog.
I especially liked Michael Taylor’s write-up of our discussion with Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis (See Picture above). Michael is totally correct: “The long and short of Calacanis’ comments go to several of the key themes heard over and over again at ILM:07 — relevant content, deep content and engaging, passionate people are all needed to make a highly relevant and personalized search experience.”
In addition to the Kelsey write-ups, Mike Boland has captured links from the press and bloggers who attended our event. It was good to have them aboard. And Mel Taylor took some great pictures.
Here are easy links to Kelsey ILM:07 posts.
1. TKG Analysts Lay the Groundwork (Michael Boland)
2. Winebaum Provides a Fresh Look at Local Search (Michael Taylor)
3. Cash is King for Local Search Investors (Charles Laughlin)
4. Herratti’s Citysearch: Social Media Video Partnerships (Bobbi Loy-Luster)
5. NCI: We Can Work with Zillow (John Kelsey)
6. ILM:07 Spotlights Mobile People (Stephen Marshall)
7. Stubbs Discusses AT&T’s Post InGenio Vision (Michael Taylor)
8. TMP’s Stuart McKelvey Discusses Online/Offline Research Data (Michael Taylor, Michael Boland)
9. New West’s Jonathan Weber and Independent Local Media (John Kelsey)
10. Marchex’s Horowitz: Bet on People Already Winning (Charles Laughlin)
11. Google’s John Hanke: Maps, Mobile and Mashups (Michael Boland)
12. An Intuit-ive Approach to SMB Marketing (Stephen Marshall)
13. Injecting Social into Local Media (Michael Boland)
14. Taking it Home: The Kelsey Takeaways from ILM:07 (Stephen Marshall)
Peter — I know there were lots of people that contributed to the conference but I wanted to say what a fantastic job you did in putting it together.
In the short time I have been in the space, I have seen it go from ‘what are we going to do’ to ‘here is what we are doing.’ I guess next year it will be ‘what we did right / wrong.’
Definitely one of the best.