Simon Young

Marie and I are going to be on the road a lot in the next couple of weeks. Here’s a summary of where you can hear and see us:

Monday, August 4th, 7:30am – 9:30am, at Lowndes Associates‘ Business Intelligence Workshop, at the Stamford Plaza in Albert Street, Auckland. Subject is “Online Strategies for Non-Online Businesses” [...]

I’m getting myself out there on quite a regular basis since chairing the Interactive Marketing Summit in May. Coincidentally, most of it takes place on a Thursday. Not sure what that means.
On Thursday, July 3rd I’ll be speaking on social media at Search Engine Boot Camp in Auckland.
On Thursday, August 7th, both Marie and I [...]

So I’ve got another job title.
Not only am I creative instigator at SimonYoungWriters, catalyst and cofounder and iJump, co-conspirator at Looksy.org, and freelance journalist. I’m also “senior writer at Marketing Magazine“.
It was a title of convenience, dreamed up because Graham Medcalf, our editor, found himself double booked to give a 5 minute spiel as [...]

It was my first unconference, although I knew the concept.
Show up on the day, co-create the agenda with everyone else. A very exciting idea!
I’d already kind of promised I’d give a presentation, but I sort of forgot the part about actually preparing anything.
I wasn’t even sure what subject to speak on – how’s that for [...]

(cross-posted from Mad Young Thing)
I’m a bit behind in blogging about BarCamp Auckland, the unConference happening in East Auckland this Saturday.
I’ve written about unConferences before, but this is the first time I’ll actually be attending one. As far as what time I’ll be presenting, or even my subject, it’s hard to say. At an unConference [...]

f you attended my session at the Leveraging Technology in Marketing Conference, here are the links I promised:The New PR – a new wiki to help you get on top of, well, the new PR!
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