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Speaking

As a professional speaker for conferences, corporate events, internal training and workshops, I’ll engage your audience and leave them with pragmatic recommendations. Apperances on Bloomberg TV, conducted keynote speeches, and have been on a variety of video interviews.

15 Minute Sample Clip: 2011 Social Business Forecast

Sample: Dec 2010 LeWeb Keynote, Paris, France, see slides.

Contact and Details
I strive to engage with your audience, be informative, and provide pragmatic recommendations.   View my profile, current speaking topics, on the Monitor Talent website.

  • For speaking engagements, I am represented by Monitor Talent.  Please contact Mel Blake at (617) 252-2472 or at mel_blake@monitor.com.
  • For your internal meetings, I’d love to discuss further, see my contact page.
    • Recent Speech Topics
    The below is sample of topics I’ve done for webinars, keynote speeches, customer events, or internal training.

    • 2011 Social Business Forecast and Spending by Maturity
    • Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist (And Program)
    • Social CRM Framework and 18 Use Cases
    • The Future of the Social Web
    • Developing A Social Strategy by Objective
    • Understanding Customers through Socialgraphics
    • Getting Your Company Ready for Social Business
    • Tying Social Media to Online and Virtual Events
    Public Speaking Calendar
    Below is a running list of my public speaking engagements, this doesn’t include corporate events, user conferences, webinars, or internal presentations.

    2011

  • mLearnCon 2011 Conference & Expo, San Jose, June 21-23, (Keynote)
  • Amplify Festival, June 6-11, Sydney
  • Social Media Success Summit, May 3rd (Keynote)
  • Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit, SF, April 28 (Keynote)
  • Social IRL, Kansas City, April 26 (Keynote)
  • Leveraging Social to Unlock User Value on Your Site, April 19 (Webinar)
  • BazaarVoice Social Commerce Summit, Austin, April 4-5 (Keynote)
  • Engage Summit, May 15-18, Park City, Utah
  • SXSW, Austin, March 11-15
  • Private client event “Social Business Strategy”, Las Vegas, March 8
  • Private client event “Social+Events”, Palo Alto, March 23
  • Why be Social? with IBM, March 3 (Webinar)
  • WOMMA: Career Path and 2011 Forecast of Social Business, March 2 (Webinar)
  • BDO: Social Media Spending for Investors and Media, March 1st (Webinar)
  • Corporate Venturing & Innovation Partnering, Newport CA, Feb 16-18 (Keynote)
  • CoTweet Conversation Series, SF Feb 10 (Keynote)
  • Social Applications for Publishers, Feb 9 (Webinar)
  • Social Media Strategies Summit, SF, Feb 8-10 (Keynote)
  • Rise of Social Commerce, Feb 3 (Webinar)
  • 7 Types of Social Data of your Consumers, NetBase, Feb 2 (Webinar)
  • Preparing the Enterprise for Social Business with Box.net, Jan 19 (Webinar)
  • Social Business Forecast with Strongmail, Jan 18 (Webinar)

    • 2010

  • LeWeb Paris10, Paris, Dec 8-9 (Keynote)
  • SelectMinds Customer Event, NYC, Dec 3 (Keynote)
  • WOMMA Summit 2010, Las Vegas, Nov 19 (Keynote)
  • Awareness Networks, Nov 18 (Webinar)
  • Arizona Entrepreneuriship Conference, Arizona, Nov 17th (Keynote)
  • Crimson Hexagon, Nov 15, (Webinar)
  • Creating an Innovative Ecosystem, Healdsburg, Nov 12 (Keynote)
  • Social Customer Virtual Summit, Lithium, Nov 10 (Webinar)
  • Full Day Client Workshop, Financial Industry, Nov 5
  • National Venture Capital Association, Menlo Park, Nov 4 (Keynote)
  • SocialTech, San Jose, Oct 26 (Keynote)
  • Driving Sales Executive Summit, Las Vegas, Oct 18-20 (Keynote)
  • Strongmail Marketing Executive Summit, Oct 13-15, Calistoga (Keynote)
  • Rise of Social Commerce (Altimeter Event), Palo Alto, Oct 6-7
  • Wisdom of We Summit, Santa Rosa, Sept 10
  • Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit 2010, Manila Aug, 19-20 (Keynote)
  • Hawaii Tourism Authority Conference , Oahu, Aug 10
  • Ragan Cisco, San Jose, June 9 (Keynote)
  • Web Wednesday, Hong Kong, June 2 (Keynote)
  • Social Media 2.0 Event, Shanghai, May 27 (Keynote)
  • [re]think Shanghai, Shanghai, May 23-25
  • Gilbane SF, May 20 (Keynote)
  • Social Media Club, May 19
  • Lithium LiNC User Conference
  • SMASH Summit, SF, May 12th (Keynote)
  • Digital Impact, New York, May 6-7 (Keynote)
  • Free State Social, Kansas City, April 29-30 (Keynote)
  • SugarCon 2010, SF, April 13
  • SXSW, Austin, Texas, March 12-16
  • Webinar: Gigya, March 4
  • Webinar: Altimeter Group on Social Strategy
  • 2010 CAAE Winter Institute Member , Scottsdale, AZ, Feb 22 (Keynote)
  • Building Brands on Social Networks: SF, Feb 18th
  • Advertising Research Foundation: Industry Leader Forum, SF, Jan 28 (Keynote)
  • Silicon Valley American Marketing Association, San Jose, Jan 21 (Keynote)
  • SMASH Supper, SF, Jan 14 (Keynote)

    • 2009

  • Forum One / ictQatar, Doha, Qatar, Dec 12 (Keynote)
  • LeWeb, Paris, Dec 10 (Keynote)
  • How to Market Your Product/Service Using Cutting Edge “Social Media”, SF, Nov 19
  • [RE]Think Hawaii, Oahu, Nov 4 (Keynote)
  • National Hispanic Corporate Council, SF Oct 22
  • BlogWorldExpo, Oct 15-17, Las Vegas (Keynote)
  • Silicon Valley American Marketing Association, Santa Clara, Sept 30th (Keynote)
  • Silicon Valley Brand Forum, Redwood Shores, Sept 23 (Keynote)
  • Internet Strategy Forum, Portland Oregon, July 23 (Keynote)
  • San Francisco American Marketing Association, SF June 25
  • SNCR June Event, Palo Alto, June 23
  • Facebook Marketing Breakfast Series, SF, June 18
  • KickApps Seminar, SF, June 17
  • Gllbane, SF, June 2-4
  • The Twitter Conference 140TC, Mountain View, May 26-27 (Keynote)
  • Twitter Con, SF, May 31
  • Corporate Social Networking, Amsterdam, May 14 (Keynote)
  • New Com Forum, SF, April 27-29
  • Web 2.0 Expo, SF, April 1
  • Web Strategy Summit | Calgary Alberta Canada, May 4-5th
  • SXSW | Austin, March 15th
  • Omniture Sumitt | Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb 17-19th
  • CES: Social Media Jungle | Las Vegas (virtual) Jan 7

    • 2008

  • Conversational Marketing Summit (FM) | SF, Oct 15
  • Thin Air Summit | Denver, Colorado, Nov 8-9 (Keynote)
  • Online Market World 2008 | San Francisco, Oct 2
  • Deal Maker Strategy Series | Palo Alto, Mass, August 12
  • Forrester Workshop: Social Computing | San Francisco, July 17
  • Forrester Workshop: Social Computing | Cambridge, Mass, June 5
  • There’s a new conversation | Palo Alto, May 29
  • Avenue A | Razorfish Client Summit | New York, May 14-15
  • Forrester Workshop: Blogging Fundamentals | San Francisco, May 7
  • Web 2.0 Expo, Facebook Marketing: Best Practices| San Francisco, April 24
  • Web 2.0 Expo, Microblogging | San Francisco, April 23 (afternoon)
  • Web 2.0 Expo, Community Building: Good, Bad, and Ugly | San Francisco, April 24 (morn)
  • ad:tech | San Francisco, April 15-17
  • Cisco Partner Forum | Honolulu, Hawaii, April 10
  • Online Community Keynote, The Knight Journalism School | UC Berkeley, March 27, 2008
  • Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives | Mountain View, March 25th (Keynote)
  • SNAP Summit | San Francisco, March 25th
  • Webinar with Awareness Networks| Austin, March 13th
  • SXSW | Austin, March 7-11th
  • Supernova, Discussion Leader | San Francisco, March 6
  • Graphing Social Patterns by O’Reilly | San Diego, March 3-4
  • Internet Strategy Forum | San Francisco, Feb 27 (Keynote)
  • Shaking the Money Tree of Multi-Platform Social Networks | Stanford, Feb 19
  • Web 2.0 Marketing: What’s Real and What’s Hype (Microsoft/MarketingProfs | Webinar, Feb 14
  • DealMaker Media, Social Networking ’08 | San Francisco, Feb 7
  • Customer Support is the New Marketing | San Francisco, Feb 4
  • Dow Jones Webinar, Social Media Measurement | Jan 31st
  • Web Guild Web 2.0 Conference: Crowdsourcing | Jan 29
  • Forrester Teleconference: Strategy For Facebook | Jan 28
  • Panelist to Intel’s Global Marketing Team | Las Vegas, Jan 22
  • Panelist to Cisco’s Global Marketing Team | San Jose, Jan 18
  • Strategy First on Facebook: Opportunities of a Ready-Made Marketing Platform | Webinar, Jan 10

    • 2007

  • Forrester: Social Networks: Build Or Join?, Teleconference, Dec 17
  • Web Community Forum, Seattle, Dec 5-6th (Keynote)
  • Mining the Graph (Private event) hosted by Conversation Group, SF, Nov 27
  • Forrester Consumer Forum EMEA, Barcelona, Nov 15-16th
  • BlogWorld Expo, Las Vegas, Nov 8-9th
  • Corporate Social Network Design Council,  San Francisco, Oct 29th
  • Play Conference, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Oct 27th
  • Social Media Club (hosted by Intel), Santa Clara, Oct 22, 2007
  • Vancounver International Digital Festival, Vancouver, Sept 24th
  • CLSA Conference, Hong Kong, Sept 17-22
  • Marketing Profs Online Seminar: Online Media, Virtual, August 9th
  • BlogTalk Radio Show | Virtual, August 21st
  • Forrester Research: Social Computing | San Francisco, August 8th
  • Frost and Sullivan Sales and Marketing | Alexandria, Virginia, July 22-25th
  • Social Media Club, Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA, July 12th
  • iX 2007 | Convergence, Collaboration and Creativity, Singapore, June 21st (Keynote)
  • iX-TDM New Media Forum | Singapore, June 20th
  • Marketing Profs B-to-B Marketing Conference | Virtual Event, June 13th
  • Social Media Workshop, | Palo Alto, June 11th
  • UC Berkeley Journalism project | Berkeley, June 7th
  • New Media Summit 2007 | Santa Clara, June 5th
  • WebVisions | Portland, May 3-4th
  • Customer Reference Forums | Berkeley, April 25th
  • Ad:Tech | San Francisco, April 24th
  • Web 2.0 Expo | San Francisco, April 18th
  • Web 2.0 Expo | San Francisco, April 17th
  • Moderator: Web SIG | Milpitas, Jan 2007
  • Frost and Sulllivan, Sales & Marketing 2007 West | Jan 2007

    • 2006

  • Factiva, Dow Jones, Social Media Measurement Roundtable | Palo Alto, CA, Dec 5th
  • eMarketing Conference | San Francisco, CA, Oct 16-18th
  • Ragan Communications: Strategic PR | Chicago, Sept 2006
  • Webvisions | Portland, Or, July 2006
  • Internet Strategies Symposium | Boston, Mass, July
  • THE Conference on Marketing | Las Vegas, NV March
  • New Communications Forum | Palo Alto, CA, April
  • Internet Strategies Symposium | Phoenix, AZ, Jan

    • 2005

  • Marketer’s Creativity Event, San Diego, CA August
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