So yesterday, I went to a 140conference. It was the first conference of its kind, and essentially it was about Social Media technology, which in college we were calling multimedia technology. Maybe if I start calling it Social Media technology, I will get more people who know what I am talking about, and less people trying to use the name Multimedia in places it should not be used.
The conference itself was a fantastic exercise. I was a little nervous at first because of not knowing anyone at the conference. This was only compounded by the fact that several people had used the conference as a way of meeting up after knowing each other for a long time on Twitter, which is something I long ago thought was pretty much a waste of time. This, it turns out, is the exact opposite of what everyone at the conference believed.
Turns out Twitter is a pretty big deal. Who knew?
Ric Dragon is, to my understanding, the man responsible for bringing the conference to Kingston, along with his wife Jen Dragon. I am assuming they are responsible because he was the welcoming speaker, and because everyone at the conference knew who he was. As a student who was mostly trying to learn more about his field, I felt a little in the dark about what was going on. In terms of learning what was going on locally in my field though, this entire conference was a rousing success.
Most of the speakers had something to say about growing your business. The first speaker, a young guy from South Carolina, I got to talk with during the lunch break. He apparently owns two programming companies and is developing app. Software for mobile phones. He is nineteen and he owns two companies. That is two more than I own, and four less years than I have. This is the biggest slice of humble pie I have ever been served.
This slice of Key Lime Pie is Public Domain. It is the only reason I used Key Lime Pie.
Since I said I would post this tonight, I do not have time to get twitter name permission from all of the conference speakers. If I had a little more foresight, I would’ve done this already. I also might have two programming companies. But I do feel that going to this conference was definitely a good thing for me, in the more common hindsight that I have. The speakers were insightful, the atmosphere was friendly, the bag lunches were a nice surprise mid-way through, and besides the earthquake that shook the East coast, the entire thing went very smoothly.
This was the first 140 Conference in Kingston, and I think if it were being held next year, I would definitely return.
Twitter logo is a Copywright of Twitter. I do not own the Twitter logo, but for purposes of review I am using the logo under Fair Use. Twitter, as it turns out, is pretty cool. So I don't think that they business as a whole will mind.
