Learn from the conferences you couldn't attend

When video technology and web services get better, it gets easier to document and share live presentations at conferences all over the globe. Online you can cherry pick the topics that seem interesting. Like this slide presentation about how Customer Service is the new marketing, from Web2.0 Expo in San Fransisco:

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Or this talk in Swedish from Medieteknik Branschdag where Internet strategist Björn Jeffrey talks about the technical divide – about how the difference between companies who understand the power of software and see themselves as being in the tech biz as well as in their primary business and those who don’t will grow and cause big problems for the latter category:

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(More videos from Stockholm events and interviews at the Stockholm Social Club blip.tv channel)

You can watch keynote speeches and panels from SXSW in their custom video player here. I can recommend the keynote by Jane McGonigal who talks about Alternate Reality Games and her new bigshot production connected to the Olympic games where players are trying to recover a lost sport.

And every conference should probably make videos like this: The Next Web Conference in 2 minutes, as people who didn’t attend can get a feel for the topics and further explore the once that seemed most interesting.

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And remember that there are lots of great SIME TV videos from previous SIME conferences. Like this interview with Esther Dyson:

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(Catch all of them at SIME TV)