Conference Bites

From UGCX

"Respect...is one of the main reasons people engage. Respect, in most cases, is more important than money."
~ Oren Michels, Co-Founder & CEO, Mashery shared by Jess Tsai

"If you want to engage a community, then you need to celebrate the people that make it up and promote them."
~ Oren Michels, Co-Founder & CEO, Mashery shared by Amy Bryant

"Steve Jobs is the man. Leave him alone."
~ Guy Kawasaki, Founding Partner, Garage Technology Ventures

"Nobody's are the new somebody's..I'm living proof of that"
~ Guy Kawasaki, Founding Partner, Garage Technology Ventures

"Marketers will abuse a medium until there's a backlash...[With social media] there must be a level of self restraint"
~ Eric Anderson, VP of Emerging Media, White Horse

"There's no viral marketing - there's good content, good relations, good people. Respect the community and they will respect you."
~ Brian Solis, Founder, Future-Works

All shared by Jess Tsai

From O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference (TOC)

"Content without links is content without value."
~ Jeff Jarvis shared by Tim O'Reilly

"Once you've written a book, you never read the same way again"
~ Cory Doctorow shared by Christina Katz

"If I reach out my hand to shake your hand, don't put your tongue in my mouth. We're not there yet, kids."
~ Chris Brogan on Twitter marketing as shared by Julie Steele

"Everyone says they'll never get on twitter but everyone eventually does"
~ Chris Brogan as shared by Susan Piver and re-tweeted by Michael Hyatt

"…a good business model--come off as a genuine person sharing parts of his life in a way that comes back to revenue"
~ Chris Brogan as shared by Laura Hazard Owen

"Conversation is king, but without the content there's no conversation"
~ Cory Doctorow shared by Dave Gray

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Tools of Change Conference

From TED, part 2

"Hybrids are like mermaids: when you want a fish you get a woman and when you need a woman you get a fish." 
~ Shai Agassi quoting Nissan’s CEO

"When you give people better ways to share information great things happen."
~ Evan Williams as shared by Loïc Le Meur

"Twitter CEO on stage? This guy is essentially the same as a heroin dealer to me and my friends."
~ Tweet (or retweet) during Evan’s talk from SdGeek

"Twitter provides the synapses for the global brain"
~ Evan Williams shared by heartnsoul

"I support big fish. Therefore, I don't eat them."
~ Sylvia Earle Shared by heartnsoul

"Follow the hunch, but never assume where it will go."
~ Evan Williams shared by davemorin

More about Ted

And also check out: Ted Blog

From TED, part 1

"Having brilliant people care about problems is the way to get them solved. I am optimistic"
~Bill Gates shared by Loic Le Muir

“It's not for you to somehow beam your message to strangers and convert them, because you can't convert strangers anymore. Not one major new consumer brand built in the last five years was built on the back of advertising. Google and Facebook, etc. are built because one person brought another one by the hand, not because someone bought ads on the Super Bowl”
~Seth Godin in Wired Interview at TED

"The Beatles did not create teenagers. They just decided to lead them."
~Seth Godin

"The new civilization = more happiness with less stuff."
~ Ray Anderson shared by Tim O’Reilly with add on “Totally agree.”

"Holding my son's hand is like consuming information."
~ Magnus Lindkvist shared by harlene

More about Ted

And also check out: Ted Blog

Big Ideas for Short Attention Spans

We can’t all be everywhere we would like to be.

Amidst the proliferation of conferences on technology, marketing, business and sustainability, it’s tough to choose which events to attend.

ConferenceBites has been created to ease this dilemma by bringing the best moments of the best events directly to your email box or web browser.

From The World Economic Forum in Davos:

"Don't look for answers at Davos-the pundits won't have them. Look for the two guys in the garage."
~ Brian Teeter of enclarity (from Reuters Great Debate; via Tim O’Reilly)

"Confidence grows at the rate a coconut tree grows, It falls as the rate a coconut falls."
~ Montek Ahluwalia, the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission in India; as blogged by Floyd Norris and New York Times; tweeted by Bruce Carton and retweeted by Tom Hood

"Stop the doom and gloom. Great time to start a company. Steal the best talent."
~ Max Levichin, CEO and Founder Slide and Co-Founder and former CTO PayPal over lunch, as tweeted by Bob Jeffrey CEO and Chairman, JWT

More about: Davos World Economic Forum 

And also check out: http://blogs.wsj.com/davos/