We have been planning our fall NYC conference, tentatively named “Future of Business Media”, and debating on a name for it. We could stick to FOBM (the only domain name we could find was FutureOBM.com), or could extend from our EconSM (Economics of Social Media) conference we did in late April, and call it “Economics of Business Media” (and already registered EconBM.com for it). “Economics of” also plays on our company tagline “Economics of Content”. The problem with EconBM, as I see it, besides being slight awkward to pronounce, is it doesn’t denote the digital focus that we have and will have for the conference. The FOBM name has the word future in it, and hence digital….but overall the conference sounds a bit generic that way.
Or, could be entirely different, and stay away from generic name and come up with a concept name, something that is used in business media lingo and we can find a domain name/brand for. Any ideas, anyone? New names, or should we stick to the one of the two above? If we end up using your idea, we’ll forward you a free ticket to the conference. Send us you ideas..in comments or e-mail at fobm AT contentnext.com.
And of course, save the date, rather, the week. We’re still busily hunting venues in NYC, but have boiled it down to Oct 29th week, so the conference will be on Oct 30, or Oct 31, or Nov 1, depending on venues availability. And yes, I know, we will be bang in the middle of a crazily busy conference season, and we tried hard to stay clear of anything related to business media…there are two related ones the week after, but heh, we’ll be earlier, and better. Oh, also, if you have any venue ideas in NYC (besides the usual mid-town hotel circuit), we’re open for suggestions at fobm AT contentnext.com.
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