Forrester, the independent technology and market research company, have asked Ryan*MacMillan to throw them a Laptopdance at their Consumer Marketing Forum EMEA 2008 & Financial Services Forum EMEA 2008. It’s being held on the 6th and 7th of November at the Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel.
As a social media agency we are obviously inclined to look at, think, argue and blog about new social media sites, services and phenomena. Our Laptopdance events have always been our way of roadtesting these discoveries with live audiences. So who could provide a better feedback channel than the Forrester people and their conference guests?
For the uninitiated, Laptopdance is a series of informal events Ryan*MacMillan convenes which serve as equal part networking event and digital media/marketing show and tell. More here.
For Forrester’s Consumer Marketing and Financial Services Forum we will be bringing a sample of some of the latest, coolest, brightest and sharpest that digital media has to offer to share with the audience and to get their thoughts and suggestions (all to be documented on social bookmarking site Delicious).
To bring a bit of focus to the process and the event we’ve edited these sites into five themes (one per laptop): Networking, Crowdsourcing, Mobile/Wireless, Aggregation/Search and Entertainment. Below we have listed (and will continue to list as we lead up to the event) our initial links. Please feel compelled to add your own thoughts on these and to make suggestions for others.
Please note that the laptop dance is only available to those people registered for the Forum. For those attending the event we’ll be Laptopdancing from 6pm on the 6th of November, for those of you not attending fear not; we’ll be sharing all that we learn here, on the blog.
Entertainment:
Networking:
Crowdsourcing
Mobile/Wireless
Aggregators/Search
Heres a few sites that could be added to the list…
· http://www.getglue.com – A program that plugs into your browser linking you and your friends together, letting you know whether your friends have visited the same sites as you and allowing you to leave feedback for one another. Useful perhaps for recomending restaurants, discussing interesting stories, commenting on films or simply confirming that you and your friends do indeed share similar interests.
· http://www.babysport.com – A facebook style program for new babies. It allows you to create a profile for your new born baby, posting pictures, updates of the babies height, first word, first walked etc – almost like an online digital babybook.
· http://www.nostradamical.com – A digg style site that rates the likelihood of future events happening. People are able to make predictions about what will happen in the future, and people then rate these predictions.
· http://www.vanno.com – Another digg style site in which you can rate companies reputations. The site collects articles about different companies and from user comments and ratings it provides a breakdown of a companies reputation.
· http://www.mailchimp.com – Allows you to create a newsletter from your RSS feeds, which can then be sent out to a mailing list. Certainly a good way for like-minded people to send out a weekly, or even daily, email with a collection of interesting articles they have read.
Matt – what about http://www.wordia.com as for the aggregator category?
From Wikipedia: “Wordia is an online visual dictionary which has the published aim of ‘redefining the dictionary’. It asks members of the public and celebrity ‘orators’ to upload videos explaining what words mean to them. The videos are then published on the site alongside the traditional textual definition sourced from the Collins English Dictionary.”
Quick update – check out www. Radus.com – its this great new browser that gathers up text, video, audio, and photo items from multiple blogs and content sites (like Flickr and YouTube) and lets you view them all in one interface that strips away the framework of the originating sites so you can focus on the content.
Tsssk, Iain, surely by now you know to say “Wikipparently” instead of “from wikipedia”?
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