Can you really learn social media at a virtual event?
A few years ago I attended the first Social Media Success Summit (aff). It was a virtual event where you could “attend” from your desktop, watching social media experts talk about Twitter, Facebook and blogging.
As you can see from the video below, I had my doubts of what I could actually gain from a virtual event, but I took the chance and signed up.
It’s no exaggeration that the Social Media Success Summit changed the way I approached social media marketing, and thus the way I ran my business.
It was the best $300 I ever spent.
So flash forward a few years, and now I’m presenting at SMSS2012. Why they let some guy from Maine speak on the same virtual stage as Mari Smith, Brian Solis, Mike Stelzner, Chris Brogan, Amy Porterfield, C.C. Chapman and like twenty other experts I’ll never know.
Bottom line is that if you’ve been on the fence about attending the Social Media Success Summit, I can tell you from firsthand experience that it contains amazing content from some of the most knowledgeable people around. Just take a look at the full line up and topics.
If you’re running your own business, or you’re in marketing, or you’ve been recently given the title of social media manager there’s no better resource than SMSS. Take a peek at the video below and I hope to see you in May!
Yes, I know I’ve been remiss in blogging these past two weeks. I’ve been on vacation and was for the most part unplugged. (You should try it, it’s nice.)
Crazy week here at 
There are a lot of social media experts out there—including the ones who claim there’s no such thing as a “social media expert”—that are telling us how social media works, how it doesn’t work, and how we all must behave in the social media arena.
