Welcome to episode #51 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. It was a great week in Vancouver, British Columbia and judging by the audio comments, people are excited to discuss why the academic world is leery of social media. I think you'll be able to make some striking resemblances to the marketing and communications industry. We also continue to deep-dive on the topic of content as media. Enjoy this conversation...

Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #51 - Host: Mitch Joel.

- Running time: 54:40. - Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056. - Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - [email protected]. - Hello from Beautiful Montreal. - Subscribe over at iTunes. - Comments are now live on the Blog - sixpixels.com/blog. - Canadian Marketing Association - National Convention and Trade Show. - Monday, May 14th until Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 at the Ottawa Congress Centre. - Burn The Ships - New World Tactics For Marketers In A Digital World. - John Wood - Leaving Microsoft To Change The World - Room To Read. - Don Tapscott - Wikinomics. - Heath Slawner - Principles of Persuasion Workshop. - Dave Balter - BzzAgent. - David Jones - Inside PR. - IAB Canada - Interactive Advertising Bureau - Social Media Marketing Seminar. - Montreal (June 11th, 2007) Toronto (June 13th, 2007), Vancouver (June 20th, 2007) and Halifax (June 27th, 2007). - Cost for this IAB Canada Social Media Marketing full-day seminar is $400 for IAB Members (and $500 for non-members). - BC AMA - American Marketing Association - Visions 2007 Conference. - Dennis L. Dunlap - CEO, American Marketing Association - Winning Strategies for Marketers Today. - Kevin Carroll - The Katalyst Consultancy - Creating a Leading Environment in Work & Play. - Richard Worzel - Liberating or Lethal - The Future Hangs in the Balance for Marketers. - Shout-out from The M Show with John Wall. - Ronin Marketeer. - Marketing Over Coffee with Christopher S. Penn from The Financial Aid Podcast. - Audio Comment - Bryan Person - New Comm Road - Bryper. - Audio Comment - Ryan Jones - Procter And Gamble. - Joost. - Audio Comment - Marko Kulik - Pets.ca and Photography.ca. - Audio Comment - Luis Menendez - LuMen Creative Group. - Audio Comment - Jared Madden - indimedia. - Audio Comment - Charles Cadenhead - The Charles Cadenhead Blog - Mostly News - Desperate Husbands - The Higher Education Podcast. - Audio Comment - Michael Netzley - Singapore Management University - CommunicateAsia. - Six Points of Separation - Six Ways To Start In Social Media Now: 1. Reader. 2. Blogrolls. 3. del.icio.us. 4. Google News Alerts. 5. Get an iPod. 6. Comment.

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