Upcoming speaking in Manchester and Brighton [Digital Shorts – Retail, Recession and Emerging Trends]
For the last couple of years I’ve presented at the “Digital Shorts” events in Manchester and sometimes Leeds (but this year ‘and Brighton’).
The events – organised by Econsultancy and regional partners – are an opportunity for digital marketers and ecommerce folk to meet for drinks and discussion based around a review of the Christmas/2008 trading and predictions of emerging trends.
2 years ago I said we were in denial about a recession; last year we covered social media platforms and rich media; while this year we’re going on a data journey where data + social + behaviour + exchange leads towards epiphenomena. Or ‘magic’ (since, as Arthur C Clarke said in 1961: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”).
If you’re going to be in Manchester let me know since I think we’ll ‘do dinner’ afterwards, while in Brighton it’ll just be beers and the late night train home!
Details of the events are on the Econsultancy shiny new website:
Manchester Digital Shorts, 4 February 2009
Brighton Digital Shorts, 11 February 2009.
Updates and echo-locating via Brightkite.
Digital Shorts – Retail, Christmas, Recession and Emerging Trends for 2009 | Econsultancy