I’m a little late with this post but Time Magazine’s Person of the Year is a good sign for the Podcast and New Media Expo. I am steering the Expo to be a central event where content creators (like podcasters) will network and learn how to create more compelling media.
I think there is going [...]

I’ve been monitoring the “crash and burn” of LeWeb3 over the past few days. I have to admit, I hadn’t heard a lot about this conference until bloggers started talking about it, but essentially it is a technology/blog/web conference in France. It’s warning bells on a variety of levels for conference and tradeshow organizers, [...]

I received a beautiful direct mail piece today for Modern Marketing Days, a tradeshow down the road in nearby San Diego. The interesting part about it is that it is organized by Modern Postcard, a company I have used several times to print “Save the Date” postcards for several Expos. There are other [...]

One of the downsides of being a tradeshow organizer who is deeply involved in the subject matter your show is about (in this case, podcasting) is that you don’t get invited to speak at other events on the subject. Justifiably, the other show organizers see me as a competitor – even though I rarely [...]

Podcasters have been having a (sometimes heated) discussion for the past two years about metrics for advertisers. Jason Van Orden, one of our speakers for Podcast Expo and an author on the subject, has fanned the fire again with his posts about the subject and I’m glad he has because it’s a discussion that [...]