Inspirational Technology

For Grid7 Venturecast #14 we recorded the audio for the presentations at the Arizona Entrepreneurship: Revolution in Marketing Conference. This was an event focused on introducing the concepts of social media and how it can be applied to help market a business. You know blogging, wikis, social networks and such. The opening presentation was by Chris Heuer of the Social Media Club and the closing presentation was given by Robert Scoble of Podtech and the Scoble Show.

The conference was mildly interesting to me, but I’ve been doing all the stuff they’re talking about for a long time so there wasn’t really a whole lot to learn from it. In reality, it was pretty fluffy overall. However, you could see all the business people in the audience drooling over the prospects opened up by this “new concept” of blogging and social networking. That’s a good thing, it seems most people in Arizona are quite behind the curve when it comes to this stuff. Anyway, if nothing else, Scoble’s section is worth a listen. Just make sure you stick with it past the part where he’s reading his RSS feeds on stage.