This past weekend, I headed down to Orlando to speak at Izeafest. I was speaking entitled “What Advertisers Want” with John Andrews of Collective Bias, Zena Weist of Embarq, and Joseph Jaffe of Crayon. When we arrived, we got together and we instantly had some great chemistry – which is important for a panel. Every event I go to John seems to be there and Zena is someone I wish I saw more frequently. Jaffe was someone I had never met but it instantly felt I was in the company of an old friend. We spent time talking about a myriad of things – both professional and recreational – and it would not have been the same event without him there. I’ll try to find video of our panel as Izea was livestreaming the event so hopefully they have archived it.
I also had a chance to connect with Sarah Evans (Aka PR SarahEvans) and her funny-as-all-hell husband Trey. Had some great conversations with Julia Roy, David Binkowski, and Aaron Brazell. Saw friends like Barb Likos, Lucretia Pruitt, Jenn Fowler, Jayson Flint, and Wayne Sutton. I’m probably forgetting a million people but it was such a whirlwind and I’m fried – so I apologize ahead of time.
Thanks again to Ted Murphy and the great staff at Izea – especially Ashley Edwards who totally rocked getting things prepped for the event.
It was great to see you again George! Next stop… BlogWorld
I heard IZEA was horrible… I mean that is what I am choosing to believe since I was not there.
Blogworld it is Wayne. You have our suite and limos booked right?
George it was nice seeing you again, keep doing what your doing. Thanks for the mention :-)
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Loved hanging with you even more than @sxsw. Thanks for offering to be my wingman. I always learn from you and appreciate you taking me under your wing.
[...] George Smith and Joseph Jaffe from the What Advertisers Want Panel at IzeaFest Steve Hall, from Adrants, took this great picture of our panel, but I haven’t had a chance to ask him if it might be cool to share it here yet (and hadn’t seen it on flickr yet to grab the html code). Steve’s a great guy and I wish I had half his eye as a photographer (ok that’s kind of morbid, but hopefully you understand what I mean, my pictures completely suck compared to his, in fact, I don’t think you can even call mine pictures after you have looked at his.) [...]
I'm with @jakrose. It had to be horrible… I wasn't there :) hee hee..
I can't wait to see everyone at BlogWorld though!!!
Thanks for the shout-out, George. It always makes me happy to please people!
So glad you were able to be part of our event this year.
Thanks for the shout-out, George. It always makes me happy to please people!
So glad you were able to be part of our event this year.