Comments

These are all of the comments that were on this site from the previous SocialCamp. Live and uncut for your viewing pleasure:

SWB
Submitted on 2009/02/23 at 5:02pm

I am there! Now give me the blogger discount!

ivan
Submitted on 2009/02/24 at 9:23am

Your ticket price is too high, even the student price is till high

Lindsey
Submitted on 2009/02/27 at 9:36am

I am really looking forward to this. The prices are very fair, especially with the discounts and considering all we will take away from this. See you there!

Bob
Submitted on 2009/02/27 at 10:24am

It’s a pay what you can system. It’s only recommended that you pay $40.

I mean they are feeding you breakfast and lunch, you’re getting to network with tons of great minds in the mid-south and hear content that would probably cost you a couple thousand for a traditional conference.

If you get one good idea out of the entire thing, it’s totally worth the $40. Small investment.

~bob

SWB
Submitted on 2009/03/03 at 7:22pm

The price is really reasonable for all that you get to take away from the camp! Trust me, I’ve been to many “professional” conferences with price-tags 30 times and much, leaving them thinking “I am glad I didn’t pay for this myself!”

Leo Dimilo
Submitted on 2009/03/04 at 11:44pm

I am attending this one but am really surprised at how “unsocial” this site (as well as launchmemphis) is.

I mean, come on…I follow on twitter to get information and also ask questions. No auto-follow? No follow-up (you can do that with auto-follow)…no centralized place for others to network pre-conference? No “face” to the organization?

I am not saying that is how it should be…I am just surprised at how lax social media pros are when it comes to presenting themselves to the public.

Just my .02 though.

lalunablanca
Submitted on 2009/03/06 at 9:10am

Leo,

Thanks for your comments. In some ways, the long tail is alive and well with all of us. Speaking only for myself and arguably for the other planners, we’re not much of the auto-follow crowd and attempt to keep to self presentation to the public in-check. I find BarCamp, SocialCamp and other ____Camps to be all about the attendees and the community. It’s a tricky balancing act not to promote the planners, organizers, presenters, and sponsors without coming across self promotional or too commercial in a traditional conference sense. We’ll work on redemption here (even if after the event with followup because there will be some instrumental people we don’t know until the day of).

Your idea of centralized point is wonderful, and can be considered for the next event. What do you recommend? We get push back on that as people are in so many different networks.

Thanks again for your comments and I look forward to seeing you tonight and/or tomorrow.
- Dave

Diane Horton
Submitted on 2009/03/06 at 1:28pm

It really bugs me that there are so many names/sponsors/sites to go through to get information about a single event. Do I go to Meetup, Facebook, Social Media Expedition, Memphis Social Camp, Launch Memphis …….. how many of these are the same thing, or run by the same folks, or just marginally related? Let’s just say that for a rookie, it’s a little hard to follow.
And speaking of being a rookie, this posting (”Social Camp is…”) reads well for those of us who are new to this, however, the most recent posting (”Ready, Set…”) is a little intimidating. If you aren’t signed up for Twitter, etc., the suggestion to add all your social media contact info to the back of your business card makes me question if I’ll be in over my head.

lalunablanca
Submitted on 2009/03/06 at 2:19pm

Thanks for the note on the business card intimidation. We’ve added a little Clarification snippet to that paragraph. No problem if you don’t have. Everyone there wants to share and get you -In- this new conversation. Looking forward to meeting you there.

Leo Dimilo

Submitted on 2009/03/06 at 3:27pm

Hmmm…now to clone myself so I can be in two rooms at once…

Kenny Allen
Submitted on 2009/03/07 at 8:45am

I’d like to see the social analytics. Is there anything that’s tracking impressions for the aggregate of social media?