All Entries in the "Publishing" Category
Conference Hound-Up May 21, 2012: Data, Aggregated With Love
To start of the week, we found some sweet and sexy opportunities to engage in the newest generation of data aggregation, amphibious vehicles and innovations in the field of chemistry. Also, a couple neat tidbits gathered from the world wide web that might put a silver lining on this whole “Monday” thing. An event entirely [...]
Conference Hound-Up May 10, 2012: The Singularity Will Merge You and Your Bikini
Could someone please direct me to the weekend? I seem to have gotten lost at Thursday. The Small Business Expo in New York touts itself as a pivotal event for all you CEO types, offering priceless networking opportunities alongside a unique tradeshow floor. I haven’t the foggiest what The NBM Show‘s titular acronym stands for, [...]
Conference Hound-Up May 4-6, 2012: I Will Avenge Your Weekend
I’ve got plenty for you to do this weekend, if you aren’t too busy watching The Avengers over and over. It’s fine if you are, just remember: this is time you will never get back. If watching this film happens to produce the same chill one experiences when a ghost passes through them, you can [...]
Conference Hound-Up April 2, 2012: Stay Mobile, Pony Boy
Once again, the Wag welcomes you with open paws and a wagging tail to a week of promising events alongside a bunch of other neat stuff. Let’s dive right in. The famous O’Reilly Where Conference starts today in San Francisco, providing focused data and solutions on location based technologies across multiple areas including mobile technologies, [...]
Conference Hound-Up March 23, 2012: Home and Garden and Bourbon
According to the event industry, the beginning of Spring is a great time to pay attention to your home and garden, because there’s a slew of chances to do so. This particular weekend also brings a lot of other interesting and compelling events, and you’ll have to read on to find out if there’s one [...]
Conference Hound-Up March 22, 2012: Stay Healthy, Social and Scared
We’re gonna start with the fantastic and move into the orgasmic in today’s Hound-Up, followed by a trip into space, but don’t get too excited… this is only a dream. The Fantastic Planet Film Festival is dedicated to seeking out and encourage bold new visions that explore speculative worlds in the science fiction and fantasy [...]
Print Publications Looking to Event Revenue for Profits
Print publications are scrambling to find every possible avenue to increase revenue to avoid going the way of the dinosaur. Even major, enduring staples like Time and Fortune find themselves in the same boat, but it seems they’ve found a way to fill the gaps with an unexpected and extremely profitable sector: events. Profits from [...]
Conference Hound-Up February 28, 2012: Hackers Have A New Job Opportunity
Today would be the last day of February, but something magical is happening this year. You’re getting an extra day. That means you get a little bit more of everything, including conferences! It also gives inventors one more day to get us closer to the future. The Direct Marketing Expo is London’s biggest marketing, advertising [...]
The Start-Up of You: Great lessons for Conference Goers from LinkedIn’s Founder
Networking is not a dirty word. That would seem to be a critical piece of wisdom imparted to conference attendees in “The Start-Up of You” released today in both paper and pixels by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and writer Ben Cosnacha. Last night Fortune Magazine managing editor Andy Serwer interviewed Hoffman and Cosnacha at the [...]
O’Reilly Announces Tools of Change for Publishing – NYC Feb 2012
Publishing, as it turns out, is very much alive. New tools and technologies have brought both dramatic changes and exceptional opportunities to the industry. There’s a lot to learn. O’Reilly’s TOC Conference is where practitioners and executives from publishing and the tech arena come together to navigate publishing’s ongoing transformation. Join them in New York [...]
