Scott Porad

I’m very excited about several upcoming speaking engagements that I’ll be doing over the next two weeks.

• On Thursday, October 15th, I’ll be on a panel at the Grammy’s MusicTech Summit in Seattle about how musician’s can “build the perfect web site”.  My message: your web site is just a tool for building a stronger connection with your audience.  When you go about building your web site, think about if the things you’re doing are enriching that relationship for your fans, thereby making them stronger evangelists for your music.

• On Friday, I’ll be speaking at BlogWorld in Las Vegas (October 16-17) about LOLs, FAILs and Life at the Cheezburger Factory.  I plan to talk about how we’ve built Cheezburger, and lessons bloggers can learn and apply to their own sites.

• Next week, I’ll be presenting at UGCX in New York (October 21-22).  We have a lot of experience with user-generated content, but my message is going to be a little different.  First, I want the audience to understand that successful projects see UGC as a means, not an end.  And, second, I want the audience to understand that just because you aren’t paying UGC content creators doesn’t mean the content is free–there’s still a cost which is called filtering.

• And, finally, in the last week of October I’ll addressing the 140 Characters Conference in LA (October 27-28).  My message will be familiar to those of you who read this blog regularly: that Twitter is about community, connection, engagement and listening.  I haven’t finalized my remarks yet, but I’m going to talk about my recently popular post about what influences engagement on Twitter, and about how I believe the Twitter clients currently being produced are lacking in listening features.

I’m very excited about all these opportunities.  If you’re in Seattle, Las Vegas, New York or Los Angeles I would love the opportunity to connect face-to-face, so drop me a note and we’ll see if we can make something happen.