I'll be in Hamburg to speak at the Next08 conference this Wednesday and Thursday. I'm really looking forward to hearing audience feedback on some of our new research on social marketing best practices -- this will be the first time we've presented any of this data to the general public. I'm also excited about hearing from the other speakers -- it looks like a great lineup.
I apologize for not being a very active blogger lately -- I've been traveling quite a lot, and most of my blogging impulses have been going towards Twitter the last couple of weeks.
But I did want to take a moment to announce that Jupiter is conducting its annual Search Marketing Executive Survey. If you're a search marketer or search marketing agency based in Europe or the US, and h ...
No, I'm not there. But Corey Kronengold, of Tremor Media and the Online Video Watch blog, is there. Check out some of his good session reports on Buying Video and Looking Smart Doing It, on Pitch your Niche, and on Pat Keane's keynote.
Behavioral targeting shouldn't be scary to consumers -- because every major behavioral targeting system I've ever seen (outside of spyware) goes to great lengths to protect user privacy. It's all completely anonymous!
But behavioral targeting is incredibly scary to publishers and advertisers and any other company who wants use anonymous user data to effectively target advertising. Bec ...
I've always thought Twitter might be a bit pointless -- it certainly looks that way from the outside -- but everyone tells me that once you start doing it, you can't stop. So I'm about to find out. You can find me at twitter.com/nate_elliott.