My apologies. It’s now over a week since 2008’s World Internet Summit in London finished and I’m only now putting fingers to keyboard to tell you about it. I wish I could do it justice in print. Any kind of recording device was, of course, not allowed and if I could have bottled the atmosphere, the emotion, the electricity, the self-belief at the end, I would have done so and made a fortune.
The event as a whole was a revelation to me and I think that this was the biggest surprise. Previously, I had attended what I thought were two similar events (certainly they both had internet marketers presenting). As regular readers will know, the very latest of these had been Andrew Reynolds’ bootcamp held earlier this year in Brighton. Some 4500 people attended that event and I took 1000 business cards with me. For the World Internet Summit I ordered 2000 cards and brought 75% of them back home. There were only 450 seats available, so overall it was a much more “intimate” event. That, and being 4 days long, meant that it was also so much easier to find people you had already met and get to know them better.
(At this point, I must say a special “Hello” to two of my subscribers, Joe and Nandu, who shared the World Internet Summit experience with me - it was a real pleasure to meet up with you and have time with you. Also to the new friends I met there - it was a joy to meet you and I hope you keep in touch and “welcome” to my blog).
Networking was an integral part of the World Internet Summit, not just a side benefit. Throughout the event there was a “Joint Venture” table, where you were encouraged to leave your own business cards and collect those belonging to other attendees who had products, skills or services of interest. Furthermore, one whole training session was devoted to practising networking in a focussed way. I’ve found a YouTube video of a networking session and other videos of previous summits, which may give you a sense of what it was like to be there:
Over the next few posts, I’ll be sharing some more of my experiences and knowledge I learned from the World Internet Summit, London 2008. I shall also be sending additional information by e-mail to those who have subscribed to my list.
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David
It was indeed nice meeting you and exchanging some ideas and experiences.
World Internet Summit was a jam packed 4 days full of information overload.
With each speaker, one tends to think ‘Ah! Here’s something that cannot possibly be bettered!’ Along comes another speaker and makes you think the same again!
At the end of each presentation, much like at Brighton, there would be a mad rush to buy the products on offer. I did the same for one of them, which my son Kirthi was interested in. This was Sean Roach’s ‘Got Access’ which we can all become free members right now, since it is still in the beta stage and can be accessed at http://www.gotaccess.com/
Over to you David and I will continue from where you stop
Regards
Nandu
This was a revolutionary concept of probably a parallel web (the paradigm effect) along the lines of social networks, where you could start your own ‘Clubs’ if you subscribe and people ‘find’ you since the network automatically directs them to the members’ clubs when anyone types in the relevant keyword.
similarly email replies take you to the members’ site so you don’t have conventional email in-boxes etc.
Tom Hua was brilliant as usual, but for those who heard him in Brighton, it was more of a revision class.
Bernadette seemed to be more down to earth and empathised with most of us, who are still in the ‘aspiring’ stage.
David, well done on the You Tube video! The noise levels were unbelievable! We did some networking and though not exactly JVs, at least got some business cards and made some acquaintances for future reference!
Doctor Mike and Koz’s software is very ingenious and matches people looking for products to their providers and helps build a list very quickly (18 secs or some such time)
Posted 04 Oct 2008 at 1:29 pm ¶Hello Nandu
Thank you for providing such a detailed contribution to my blog. I’m very grateful for the time you put into it. It has also saved me some time by commenting on some of the presenters I hadn’t previously mentioned.
Give my regards to Kirthi too. I didn’t realise that you’d invested in Got Access. You’re very welcome to use my blog, if you’d like to share with us your progress with Got Access.
Posted 12 Oct 2008 at 5:41 pm ¶Got Access is still in the beta stage and Kirthi is attending a members only seminar in London during the 17th Oct w/e
More later
Posted 12 Oct 2008 at 6:46 pm ¶Thanks for the update, Nandu.
We look forward to hearing how it develops.
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