JP reflects on his experience of the day.

I have posted notes from the keynote panel and a couple of presentations at my personal blog. More photos to come...

JP Rangaswami: "I don't know why you'd hire a human being and then expect them to do what you tell them to."

Here's Euan Semple, today's chair, being interviewed in the least noisy cafe we could find in Blackfriars.  This is one of the joys I find in blogging and social media, show up and do what you need to do, and never mind the "quality" feel the width!

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This is stretching 'pre-conference' a bit - it's posted from "speakers corner" at in the registration room at the London Hilton Metropole....

Picture by Peter Kaminski

I spoke with Adriana Cronin-Lukas this morning to hear how she first got involved in helping to create the conference and what sorts of issues she's dealing with when working with social media in a corporate context. 

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Adriana offers some fascinating insights into the differences between how social media affects organisations both at a macro, strategic level as well as at an operational level.

I met up with Lee Bryant at Headshift HQ to chat about what he's bringing to the forum on Wednesday and also to find out what he's expecting to take away.

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Lee mentions a couple of the public sites that Headshift has been involved in:

1001 Inventions
Patient Opinion
Culture Online (DCMS)

Look out for Lee on the day (the picture here is of Lee at Our Social World last year)

For some sterling examples of great business blogs, check out the Pajama Market. Every day, a different business blog is featured. If you're seeking inspiration for how your own company might use blogging, start clicking and reading.

NB Stormhoek CEO Jason Korman, who will be speaking at our event on May 17th, has even been interviewed by the Pajama Market.

Adriana Cronin-Lukas, who will be taking part in the Blogs & Social Media Forum on May 17 (and who actively encouraged VNU to stage this event), uses the social bookmarking tool Furl to flag up this Center for Media Research item on internet radio listeners:

A new study by Arbitron and Edison Media Research finds that the weekly Internet radio audience increased by fifty percent from 2005,(satellite radio awareness tops sixty percent of the U.S. population, while the AM/FM radio audience remains strong. The report chronicles this expansion of the radio market and its implications for advertisers and media planners. The monthly audience of Internet radio tops an estimated 52 million; an increase from 37 million people in 2005. The weekly Internet radio audience also increased 50 percent over the past year, with 30 million listeners last year.

Adriana comments:

So much for those who say that the internet is for geeks and not their main customer base. Also, it is worth noting that "Online radio listeners are 36 percent more likely than the average consumer to live in a household with an annual income of more than $100,000." Now tell me that it's not worth making full use of the internet communication potential!