I have been busy this week and will be busy throughout the weekend as SoCon08 starts tonight with a giant networking, big thinking, big eating dinner; we have filled the banquet room with 160 registrants, and tomorrow we have 281 registered for the full-day unconference on the campus of Kennesaw State University. Watch for the SoCon08 [...]
This weekend we closed down registration for our SoCon08 conferenceon Feb. 8-9, 2008. The Feb. 8 Friday night dinner at Maggiano’s is stuffed as probably will be our 160 Friday night participants. On Saturday, Feb. 9 we are adding extra chairs to our auditorium at Kennesaw State University as we will have a booming 275 people in the room. We [...]
Probably within the next 15 minutes the last three spots for our SoCon08 Friday dinner at Maggiano’s at the Cumberland Mall will fill. Join the more than 150 people who paid for Friday night, and more than 200 for Saturday. Right now it is 2:23 EST on Jan. 29, 2008 and the registration clock is ticking.
Saturday registration closes [...]
With about three weeks to go, we now have 100 registrants for SoCon08the Southeast’s top social media, social networking and Web 2.0, unconference. I will be updating our participant list later today.
The cost of attending Friday night’s big networking dinner is about to jump because we will soon reach the limit of subsidized spots. Pay $28 now or $48 later. So sign [...]
Last year SoCon07 was a blast, attendees loved it. So, of course, we are back again for SoCon08, the social media and social networking event for the Southeast. Registration opened today. Get aboard now. Here is what Timothy Moenk, one of the people helping organize SoCon08 wrote, it will give you an excellent idea of [...]
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.