Conference Bites

140 | The Twitter Conference, Day 1

"We now have 5000 Twitter developers and over 10,000 applications."
~ Alex Payne, API Developer Lead for Twitter

"Every media story should continue on Twitter."
~ Alex Payne, API Developer Lead for Twitter

In response to question on his best moment at Twitter so far: "Our most interesting moment is yet to happen."
~ Alex Payne, API Developer Lead for Twitter

"We are recording our history one blog post at a time."
~ Tara Hunt (@missrogue)

"In Texas they say, 'he's all hat and no cattle'. In San Francisco, 'he's all unicorn and no cupcake'."
~ From Tara Hunt's 40 Reasons Why Twitter Rawks presentation, quoting in this case a tweet from Eric Stassi .  This was a great presentation, the slide deck for which can be found at: slideshare

"If a brand responds to you people say, 'Holy Shit, brand x just responded to me' -that’s what you want as a brand, you want to be human."
~ Jesse Engel, CoTweet CEO

"...this is good for showing how people behave, which is a good model for how brands should behave on twitter."
~ Jesse Engel, CoTweet CEO

From man in audience as preamble to question for panel: "I was forced into Twitter a month ago.....”, followed by applause, as if he was at an AA meeting.

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Small Business Marketing Panel on Taking Your Brand online

"Life is good for marketing right now…it can’t get much better than this."
~ Guy Kawasaki at online panel on Small Business Marketing Panel on Taking Your Brand online

"There are big dumb rich companies who you can charge to help them figure out how to use the free fast and ubiquitous [online social media] technologies."
~ Guy Kawasaki on what the abundance of free marketing options means for people trying to sell their services

"...it's not being a parasite—it's symbiosis"
~ Guy Kawasaki in response to Chris Brogan, in their follow up dialog on the above statement

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Digital Hollywood

"Advertising Now: Why Buy the Milk When You're Following the Cow on Twitter?"

~ Article title in LA Weekly written by Alexia Tsotsis

and expanding on her live tweeting of various sessions at Digital Hollywood, which included the following:

"Legislation is never ahead of society, I would rather see money put into ideas than money put into trying to defend an obsolete biz model."
~ Benjamin Masse, President & CEO of Double V3, as tweeted by Alexia Tsotsis

"Make sure that the advertising doesn't distract the audience, but enhances their daily lives."
~ Rebecca Watson, Director of Business Development at Real Girls Media, as tweeted by Alexia Tsotsis

"Whatever happened to building a product that people like & getting them to pay a reasonable price for it?"
~ Dave Ulmer, Senior Director of Marketing, Digital Media Services at Motorola, as tweeted by Alexia Tsotsis

"There's only two types of content, useful content and entertaining content."
~ Brian Murphy, EVP at TBA, as tweeted by Alexia Tsotsis and retweeted by Hitesh Parashar

"The voracious celebrity media machine guided in the right direction could be used for immense good."
~ Marc Morgenstern, Executive Director at Declare Yourself, as tweeted by Alexia Tsotsis

"People who reinvest in their brands in a down economy will reap the benefits when we eventually come through."
~ Craig Woerz, Managing Partner at Media Storm, as tweeted by Alexia Tsotsis

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NewComm Forum 2009 SF, Additional Quotes

"Twitter is a big sensing organism all over the world. [Twitter lets you] have your friends with you in your pocket. Twitter disrupts Facebook, email and isolation."
~ Laura Fitton

"I realize working for Oracle for 8 years may tar me as a marketing mofo."
~ Alan Kelly of The PlayMaker's Standard, from his 'What's in a Tweet?' presentation

"A 'Crazy Ivan' is a play where you suddenly & irrevocably rush a competitor for surprise and advantage... like nominating Sarah Palin."
~ Alan Kelly

"Conclusion: companies can effectively and cheaply drive competitive advantage through twitter."
~ Alan Kelly

"If you take the high road… you are bailing from the opportunity that has been provided by friend, foe or someone in between. To take the high road is to go off road…where there is no insurance, I might add"
~ Alan Kelly

"We like sponsored cocktails…better than sponsored content."
~ JD Lasica in the midst of his  'self-flagellation tour—seven conferences in five days!'

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