{"id":408,"date":"2007-07-17T18:17:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2007\/07\/17\/community-next-rundown\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T18:17:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T23:17:27","slug":"community-next-rundown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Community Next Rundown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a blast last weekend in San Francisco. My buddy Noah (and Adam) hosted the second Community Next conference. Luckily I was invited. I&#8217;ve put some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/devdev\/sets\/72157600854136592\/\">photos online<\/a> and my quick thoughts are found below.<\/p>\n<h2>VIP Dinner<\/h2>\n<p>\tFriday was the VIP Dinner. I chatted with a bunch of awesome guys including the CTO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\">Pandora<\/a> Tom Conrad, <a href=\"http:\/\/redcouch.typepad.com\/\">Shel Israel<\/a>, Eric from <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/\">icanhascheezburger<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybloglog.com\/\">MyBlogLog<\/a> team, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrapblog.com\/\">Scrapblog<\/a> team, <a href=\"http:\/\/500hats.typepad.com\/\">Dave McClure<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewchen.typepad.com\/\">Andrew Chen<\/a>, and so on.<\/p>\n<h2>Pre-Party<\/h2>\n<p>\tThen we hit the pre-party at Old Pro (in Palo Alto). It was a ton of fun (and sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo!<\/a> again). I hung out with great folks including the aforementioned plus <a href=\"www.femgineer.com\">Poornima<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\">Mint<\/a>, Shivani from <a href=\"http:\/\/women2.org\/\">Women2.0<\/a>, Gabe from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/\">Techmeme<\/a>, and so on and so forth. I was humbled all evening. I also had the pleasure of hanging out with Andre Nosalsky, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefuego.com\">Scott Hurff<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventvue.com\/\">Rob Johnson<\/a>. They happened to be my roommates for the evening. Thats a story in and of itself.<\/p>\n<h2>The Conference<\/h2>\n<p>\tThe next morning the conference was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\/\">PlugandPlayTechCenter<\/a> which was an excellent spot for the conference. It went by a lot faster than the last one. Perhaps that&#8217;s because I could actually sit and enjoy it. Which I did. I heard some cool people speak about an awesome area right now: viral marketing. We heard from employee number four at MySpace, icanhascheezburger, hi5, Pownce, Justin.tv, Crazy Egg, Timothy Ferriss, and so on. A lot of Facebook discussion and plenty on what you should and should not do to attract and retain users.<\/p>\n<h2>Bottom Line<\/h2>\n<p>\tAnother great conference. I enjoyed chatting with everyone there and am still excited by the caliber of the attendees. Like I said, I was lucky to be there. The Community Next conferences have been phenomenal and I  look forward to the future (yes, there will be more!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a blast last weekend in San Francisco. My buddy Noah (and Adam) hosted the second Community Next conference. Luckily I was invited. I&#8217;ve put some photos online and my quick thoughts are found below. VIP Dinner Friday was the VIP Dinner. 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