Convention Dish: ConnectiCon
ConnectiCon
- July 9-11, 201
- Connecticut Convention Center and Hartford Marriott Downtown.
- Hartford, CT
- Approx. 7,000
Ask anyone who regularly attends a gym.
For the first six weeks of every year, it’s impossible to find an empty treadmill, stair-climber or elliptical workout machine.
And then, on the seventh week, everything’s back to normal.
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Piggy-backing on today’s post about Weighing Opportunity, let’s talk about the new social micropayments site, Flattr.
Here’s the set-up: Readers are expected to put money into a Flattr account (I can only assume Flattr takes a cut, but this is in beta, so there’s no further information).
Then, when readers see something they like on the Web (say, a webcomic) they can click on the webcomic’s Flattr button (provided the webcartoonist in question is a participant).
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Comic contests, solicitations to have your comic reprinted in a magazine, offers to run your comics on other sites…
It would be nice if opportunity actually knocked.
But let’s face it, sometimes opportunity stands outside the door and kinda… waits. Or maybe sulks out by the shrubs.
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According to a recent survey, companies will be spending more on digital marketing (by an average of about 17%) in 2010.
Econsultancy, a digital marketing firm, and ExactTarget, a services provider, surveyed 1,000 marketers to find out how they were allocating their budgets for the year. BigFatMarketingBlog has an excellent analysis of their study, “Marketing Budgets 2010.”
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I had originally planned this for later in the month, but since the copyright discussion generated such a strong conversation, I figured I’d move this up in the schedule. It’s a list of terms to look out for when you’re reading a legal contract.
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From time to time, I come across some work from a subscriber that I’d like to talk about within the structure of this site. Maybe they’re doing something right that I’d like to share or maybe they’re making an error that I’m seeing in a lot of other people’s work that I’d like to address. I’ll fine these under “Random Workshops.”
In the case of Brent, who graciously agreed to let me use him as an example, it was a little bit of both.
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