Syndicate Conference Kicks Off Next Week in San Francisco; Event shows how RSS, blogs and podcasts are transforming the way businesses do business.FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets, today previews the upcoming Syndicate(TM) Conference, scheduled to take place December 12-14, 2005 at the Hilton San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . At next week's program, industry leaders Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google and many others will discuss how syndication and social media tools such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. , blogs and podcasts are transforming the way businesses do business. "It's only six months since the first Syndicate in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and already the whole field has grown enormously," said Doc Searls Doc Searls (born on July 29, 1947) is a widely-read blogger and a columnist and senior editor for Linux Journal. He is often credited for originating the quote "Markets are conversations", which is also the first thesis in The Cluetrain Manifesto , Syndicate conference chairperson. "There are more than 20 million blogs now. Podcasting has gone mainstream. "Tagging" is a hot new topic that will grow and change just in the three days at Syndicate. Syndicated "Live Web" search is booming, and diversifying with each new service that enters the field. Publishing, broadcasting, website management, advertising, PR, corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. and countless other fields are being changed rapidly by syndication." Keynotes and Featured Speakers PR guru Larry Weber, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of W2 Group, and Jonathan Schwartz Jonathan Schwartz or Jon Schwartz is the name of several persons:
Conference Track Topics --The Syndicated Media Environment: Explores how syndication works, how it's being applied by old and new media companies, how and why different media companies choose to free or lock up their content, what syndicated content search engines are and how they differ from traditional search engines, and how to follow audience and topical trends in real time. --Syndicated Company & Product Environments: Discusses how companies of all sizes (from corporate titans like GM to your neighborhood book stores) are syndicating all kinds of content in pursuit of real business goals - and how companies take advantage of both corporate and individual blogs to relate more closely to their customers - and allow their customers to relate more closely to them. --Syndicated Technologies & Trends: Explores new syndication technologies, standards, trends and practices. Subjects include: mobile RSS, tagging, structured blogging, wikis See wiki. , vertical market syndication, attention tracking, social software, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Computer conferencing on the Internet. There are hundreds of IRC channels on numerous subjects that are hosted on IRC servers around the world. After joining a channel, your messages are broadcast to everyone listening to that channel. , and new areas where hundreds of million dollars of venture money are flowing. --Syndicated Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most : Shows how leading PR pros are using blogs, podcasting, RSS, and a new crop of search and tracking tools to build relationships with a new group of influencers while finding innovative ways to stay in touch with established target audiences and communities of interest. Conference Speakers Among the many speakers at the Syndicate conference, there are C-level's, president's, senior VP's and founders from organizations such as: CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Networks, Yahoo!, Washingtonpost.Com, Blogads, Google, E-Loan, PubSub, Technorati, Knight Ridder Digital, Burson-Marsteller, Dow Jones Consumer Electronic Publishing, Ketchum, Microsoft, ZDNet, Pheedo, SimpleFeed and many more. Sponsors and Exhibitors The companies at the forefront of these new syndication tools are sponsoring and exhibiting at Syndicate. Cornerstone sponsor Yahoo! is joined by Platinum sponsor Microsoft. Silver sponsors include: Attensa; Feedster; KnowNow; NewsGator; Pheedo; Pluck; PubSub Concepts; and SimpleFeed. Bronze sponsors include: Acquire Media; Cymfony; FreeRange Communications; inclue!; LookSmart; Marqui; PRWeb; Spearhead Innovations; and WhatCounts. Associate sponsors include: Five Across; Google; Gritwire; I/PRO; Moreover Technologies; Silverpop; Technorati; and Top 10 Sources. Association sponsors include: AdMonsters; American Business Media American Business Media is an association of business information providers that was founded in 1906. Currently, the association has more than 300 member companies and delivers business intelligence to industry, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and the Beltway, representing almost 5,000 ; Online Publishers Association; SF Advertising; and Word of Mouth Marketing Association. Networking Opportunities An opening night networking reception will be sponsored by Yahoo!, and all Syndicate attendees, sponsors, media and speakers are invited to attend. The reception will take place following the day's final keynote address on Tuesday, December 13 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Syndicate's RSS Feed To subscribe to the event feed, visit http://subscriber.simplefeed.com/syndicateconference. Syndicator Blog To read the Syndicator(TM) blog, visit http://www.syndicatorblog.com. For more information about Syndicate or to register for the event, please visit www.syndicateconference.com. About Syndicate As the premier event for content syndication trends, Syndicate(TM) (www.syndicateconference.com) is a B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Conference providing awareness, clarity, education, deal making and strategic business opportunities surrounding the emergence of online media syndication. This program will focus on emerging technologies such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication), for content owners and producers, new media executives, marketers, advertisers and public relations professionals. About IDG World Expo IDG World Expo (www.idgworldexpo.com) produces technology-focused tradeshows, conferences and events for professionals seeking world-class education, peer-to-peer networking and one-stop comparison shopping. IDG World Expo's portfolio of conferences and events includes Macworld Conference & Expo(R), LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(R), Wireless Sensing Solutions(R), Syndicate(TM), GridWorld(TM), OSBC OSBC Open Source Business Conference OSBC One Stop Business Center (R), Digital ID World(R), RoboBusiness and RoboNexus. IDG World Expo is a business unit of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research and event company. About IDG International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, research, and event company. A privately-held company, IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers including Bio-IT World, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. 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