Atlanta Social Media Un-Conference Action Plan

Hi Everyone,

Kevin Howarth, Andrew Lunde, James Harris, Amber Rhea, Rusty Tanton and I had a great visit to Greensboro, NC for ConvergeSouth 2006. ConvergeSouth attracted about 200 people, all bloggers, mostly from the area but also from as far as Baltimore. They had really great discussion leaders such as Elizabeth Edwards and Robert Scoble. Breakfast was provided by Edelman, Lunch was provided by PayPerPost and the A&T University provided the facilities. The event was free for everyone. After the event, there was a sign up for hosted dinners, which was paid for by each person.

I got to speak with one of the organizers who happens to be from Atlanta (grew up down the street from Martin Luther King Jr) and she is more than willing to provide any guidance for our Atlanta Un-Conference.

James Harris and I discussed some of  things that need to happen to get more momentum going to make this work. We made a few decisions that needed to be made.

The conference will be held on Saturday, February 10, 2007 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
At this time we are setting the attendance to be 100 people

We need a venue - let me know who you know that we can contact that will be willing to provide a space.

We need sponsors to provide breakfast and lunch - who do you know?

We need to nail down who to invite as discussion leaders. I would like to see topics about online community building, RSS, podcasting, streaming video, social networking spaces, Enterprise 2.0 and virtual worlds (any other ideas?)

We will need to raise a little money to provide accommodations for any speakers.

We need PR (that sounds like a committee)

Please email me with your ideas and suggestions at sherryheyl[@]gmail.com