2011 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing. The Green Hornet Girls at Comic-Con 2010.
Our Ultimate Guide to 2011 Conferences & Events Note: This post covers 2011 conferences. Please see the new 2012 guide to social media, tech & marketing conferences. Social Media Will Overtake Traditional Media as PR Tool in Next Two Years. A Look at Cory Booker, the Social Media Mayor. How are politicians using social media platforms not only to glean votes and support, but to communicate with voters about what it takes to govern?
Earlier this month, Newark, New Jersey’s Mayor Cory Booker’s twitter blog took home the “Shorty Award” in the government category. Booker is no stranger to media attention. Originally elected to Newark City Council in 1998 at age 29, Booker made his presence felt both in Newark and the media immediately. Writing in Esquire magazine in 2008, Scott Raab recalls some of "Booker's Heroics"—his earliest attention-grabbing moments, such as: "pitching a tent to conduct a ten-day fast in 1999 to shame [then Mayor] Sharpe James into providing more police and better city services to his ward,” or his 2000 “move into a battered motor home that Booker drove to the city's darker corners for campouts. "