We really wish we could accommodate more people at the club house, but honestly, it’s not intended to be another big event like SxSW. There is enough happening downtown and at the convention center, and trust me when I say that all the residents will be spending a lot of time in convention center, attending panels, at other parties and having a great time. The club house concept is all about 3 things:
- Having a group house where a bunch of us can stay together and enjoy the SxSW experience;
- Covering events like SxSW 2010 for our Social Media Club members and media partners around the world who are unable to attend;
- And finally, about producing something more meaningful then another party with market leading brands who are very much the new patrons in the knowledge economy (IMHO)
So the bottom line is that we want to take advantage of having all these smart people in one place at the same time, bring them together, and talk about the things that are most important right now as the world of media evolves. For instance, how many places will you be able to hear from Brian Solis, Paul Gillin and David Merman Scott debating the meaning, opportunity and challenges of ENGAGEMENT? At the moment, you will only see them together at the Engagement Summit being hosted by Awareness Networks on SUnday 3/14, and those aren’t the only uber smart folks joining us to talk about Engagement. Stay tuned for a full list and more details on what we will be discussing in the next day or so.
In addition to the Engagement Summit, we will also be hosting the Synaptic Web Summit with support from Intel on Saturday 3/13… the sponsors of tomorrow is certainly the most appropriate way to look at this important discussion with Khris Loux, Chris Saad, Kevin Marks and many other leading open web advocates. Then on Monday 3/15, we will be inviting in leaders from CoWorking centers around the world for the CoWorking Summit hosted by Moonfruit with folks from Citizen Space, La Cantine and many other leading spaces around the world.
Our main intention is to be streaming this live, together with media partners Justin.tv and TechZulu, so you can participate remotely via live chat or listen to the conversation later on as a podcast. You wil find details on the streaming media URL here as we finalize technical details.
That said, if you are going to be in Austin for any of these dates, consider yourself a thought leader on any of these subjects, or better still other people say that of you, then please take a moment and fill out this form to request an invite. There is a lot to do still, and while all the invites have not been sent yet (finalizing our internal lists and reaching out to a few key folks personally), we wanted to take this opportunity to make sure we don’t miss someone simply due to an email invite list management challenge.
More details tomorrow.
