Speaking Appearances

I have the great pleasure of doing another session at this year’s New Media Expo (aka Podcast Expo) in Las Vegas. The convention runs August 14-16. Veronica Belmont and I are hosting a session called “Developing an Engaged Community (a.k.a. Don’t Feed the Trolls)” which kicks off Thursday August 14 at 10:30 AM.

Monday March 10, at 3:30 PM in Room 8 at the Austin convention center, I’m doing a panel on how to relate to your audience. If you’re at SXSW and you do any sort of content, I hope you’ll stop by. I’m super-excited about the folks I’m doing the panel with. We’ve got Heather Armstrong of Dooce, Casey McKinnon of Galacticast fame, and Chris Smith of Snowmen Hunters.

Headed down to the Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario California first thing tomorrow morning.

Molly Wood’s on a panel called How To Make Your Web Video Wildly Popular  at 11:45 AM Friday in Ballroom C.  My session is Sunday at 11:45 AM also in Ballroom C called Building a Large AND Passionate Audience. 

We plan to record Buzz Out Loud after Molly’s panel on Friday, either in the lounge at the DoubleTree hotel or at a table in the convention center.  We’ll Twitter for sure.

The SXSW Interactive conference has launched their annual panel picker. This is a chance for the Web audience at large to help choose what panels will happen at the conference next March.

I like what they’re doing this year. All the panels are displayed in the picker and you can rate as many as you feel like. If you’d like to rate my panel proposal, just search for Merritt. It’s tentatively titled “Make your audience love you.”

Just got a call from the fine folks at the Podcast and New Media Expo. They’ve invited me to speak on Sunday September 30, 2007 at the conference in Ontario, California.

My session’s called “Building a large AND passionate audience.” I’ll be speaking on how to engage an audience. I’ll also attend the rest of the conference, so if you’re going to be down there, let me know!