BlogTalk 2010
John Breslin of NUIG and DERI is hosting the forthcoming BlogTalk social media event being held in NUI Galway on 26-27 August. It has a great line-up of social media speakers and panels.
Keynotes will be given by Stowe Boyd, an authority on social tools and originator of the term advisory capital; Dan Gillmor, a noted Silicon Valley journalist, author of “We the Media”, and director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship; and Don Thibeau, director of OpenID, an easy and safe log-in system for websites used by Yahoo!, Google and many others. Other notable speakers include Blaine Cook, former lead with Twitter; Charles Dowd, Facebook Platform Operations; and Ade Oshineye, Google Social Web.
Irish social media gurus will include Darragh Doyle, boards.ie; Fergus Hurley, VC-funded Silicon Valley startup Clixtr; and Ted Vickey, former director of the White House gym.
Early bird registration is open at www.blogtalk.net until August 18th, and costs €149 for two days (€99 for students and unemployed). There is also a special hotel rate of €89 available for the nights of the 25th and 26th August with The House Hotel; just quote BlogTalk when booking.