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• Does Free Content Cannibalize Your Paid Consulting

  by Jay Baer and Joe Pulizzi

  How Much Do You Open Your Kimono? Does "Thought Leadership" Imperil Your Ability to Monetize What You Know?

  Does giving away info snacks enable you to sell knowledge meals, or does your blogging and content program actually cost you paying customers? Do you publish everything you know, or hold something back?

  Find out in this dynamic presentation filled with tough questions, crowd participation, laughs, and real-world examples (with actual stats). You'll discover the merits (and pitfalls) of unfettered and unabashed kimono opening.

  The conversation will be led by two guys who have made a career out of thought leadership and content advice. Joe Pulizzi is the founder of the Content Marketing Institute and is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers. Jay Baer is the President of social media consultancy Convince & Convert and is the co-author of The NOW Revolution.

  • Consulting
  • Freemium
  • Marketing

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Capitol View North, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

  Coverage slide deck

• Crowd Sourcing Community Projects Like Tom Sawyer

  by Dave Olson

  Customers are part of your culture. By inviting them to participate in your campaigns and community, you can speed progress, gain candid market insight, and have some fun. This conversation will share tips about wrangling your passionate users to help with specific tasks for mutual benefit. The tips and tactics will include: understanding motivations, providing rewards, setting boundaries, understanding types of volunteers, organizing disappearing task forces, avoiding "cat herding,” and thwarting confusion and conflicts.

  Practical examples will include: crowd-sourcing a multi-language software translation project; organizing citizen reporting at an Olympic Games; creating participatory contests to produce content and assets; identifying perpetrators and looters in a riot; raising relief money under difficult circumstances; and, rapidly helping victims in disaster zones.

  From the examples, we’ll discuss methods for channeling the passion of audiences into tangible results in much the same manner as Tom Sawyer recruited his fishing pals to help whitewash his fence.

  • Citizen Journalism
  • Community
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Journalism
  • Marketing

  At 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Capitol View North, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol