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Title:

How to Influence Top Social Media Users

Your vote:
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Organizer:
Will Chen, Wise Bread
Description:
Panel of top Digg and Twitter contributors shows you how to craft viral content and get them noticed by social media’s power users. Learn how to build lasting relationships using the right incentives (money, swag and bacon). Panel will also make predictions about the Next Killer App in social media.
Questions
Answered:
  1. How do I create viral content?
  2. Who are the top social media users and how do I find them?
  3. Why are top social media users important? I thought this was a democracy!
  4. How do I get top social media users to notice my content?
  5. How do I build relationships with top social media users?
  6. How do I become an influential social media user?
  7. What are the most useful social media tools?
  8. Digg, Twitter, SU, FB: Which platform drives the most traffic and conversations?
  9. How do I build my own social media tool? (It's easier than you think)
  10. What's the next Big Thing after Twitter and how do I prepare for it?
Level:
Advanced
Category:
Advertising, Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Community / Online Community, Content, Social Networking
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Will Chen
on 17/8/09
Hi everyone. I'm the panel organizer Here are the panelists that have already agreed to come if we were selected:

Muhammad Saleem (#2 Digg user)
JD Rucker (#34 Digg user, 75,000 Twitter followers)
Jason Lankow (#4 Digg contributor 3,381 Twitter followers)
Will Chen (#27 Digg user, editor of Wise Bread)

Panelist I've invited but still awaiting answer:

Amanda Maurer (Chicago Tribune's Social Media Expert, #56 Digg user)
JD Rucker
on 17/8/09
Looks like a good crew to me, but I'm biased.
Andrew Sorcini
on 17/8/09
Great panel! These are certainly some of the best social media experts in the field today. Looking forward to seeing this.
Susan Cooper
on 17/8/09
If you have not heard these guys in action before, you definitely are missing out. Great panel!
TheDudeDean B
on 17/8/09
Only Big Steaks and Beer work on me.
Will Chen
on 19/8/09
UPDATE: Amanda Maurer is IN!

Amanda is Chicago Tribune's Social Media Expert and a top Digg user with an enviable 45% popularity ratio.
Jonathan Fields
on 20/8/09
Tremendous panel with people who actually know what they're talking about and are on the influence side, not just the "seeking" influence side
Elys Field
on 1/9/09
Great panel and sounds interesting
Will Chen
on 2/9/09
"Only Big Steaks and Beer work on me."

If wishes were horses...

"Looking forward to seeing this."

Thank you MrBabyman! I'm looking forward to meeting you at SXSW.

"If you have not heard these guys..."

Then you're probably not spending enough time geeking out in front of your computer.
M4R Converter
on 18/11/09
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