Media Round-Up from DLD 11

Staci. D. Kramer from ContentNext Media, Robin Wateurs from Tech Crunch have done some very good coverage from the panels and thoughts of the luminaries at DLD, one of Europe’s premier tech conferences. DLD, a 3 day event held in Munich, brings together the 170 thought leaders from around the world, over 1000 participants, bringing together a mix of digital, media and art. SIME along with DLD, Le Web are part of the European Alliances of Conferences, sharing ideas and thoughts amongst each other.

Here is the summary from some of the panels at DLD:

• Arthur Sulzburger Jr. New York TImes about why print will be around for longer than you think it will and why the app world will be easier to monetize
  
• Groupon CEO on the lingering IPO question for the company, and his honest truth
  
• Interview with James Murdoch summarized on the pay wall, The Daily  and the landscape of the media industry
• James Murdoch on charging 99 cents / week for The Daily

• And James Murdoch on The SUN, one of their most successful companies having a strong paid component
  
• Google’s Marissa Meyer on Eric Schmidt stepping down as CEO of Google
  
• Cracking the social commerce nut with Groupon and Foursquare CEO

And here is the link to the livestream

And the first winner of the SIME Trivia is … *drum rolls*

Jenny Jung from Medienforum.nrw Germany.

Congrats Jenny. You not only got the answers right, but also pointed out a small mistake in the first trivia’s question. We are impressed And we look forward to having you at SIME this year on us.

You will get an email with the codes to your (at)gmx(dot)net id and a big warm welcome of course. You can reach me anytime as well at mahesh(at)sime(dot)nu.

And for the rest of you who want to stand a chance to win a free ticket, all you need to do is to try your hand at a quick trivia released every week from Wednesday to Friday on the blog, and every second week you stand a chance to win a ticket to SIME Stockholm November 17, 18.

More details here

Welcome to 2 days of digital inspiration. Welcome to SIME Stockholm!

Uncovering the Digital Potential 2011: September 28 at Nalen, Stockholm

SIME together with Cybercom present to you a day of enriched keynotes, debates and meaningful conversations from authorities in the digital arena. A one day event to be held on September 28 at Nalen in Stockholm free of charge but with limited seating capacity only. Some of the titles for the seminar are.

• Kings Club -making the impossible digital
• Reveailing the truth in Nordic banks website performance
• The new media mix -shaken not stirred
• Agile -the new black
• 3 fresh business ideas for the digital arena -interested?

And the speaker roster includes Ulf Ekberg, Ace of Base, Mats Lindberg, CEO Kairos Future and Jon Månsson, Scania who will share their experiences of how they use the digital lanscape in their everyday work.

Please use your personal event code digi7sme when registrering.

Date: Tuesday September 28th
Time: 08.30-17.00 and following evening mingle
Venue: Nalen, Stockholm
Registration: Last day of registration is September 20th

Agenda ,  Registration Page

SIME Talks: Season 2, Episode 1 – an introduction about SIME and plans for SIME 2010

SIME Talks, inspired by a similar version from TED features interviews, expert opinions around things digital from friends of the SIME house. We started the weekly routine of featuring an expert and focusing on a take home message revolving around different topics since last July, and the concept has quite much caught on.

We love the whole routine of putting up the show since it gives us the chance to revisit old interviews caught amongst dusty tapes (not that they belong there, but because they didn’t connect with the right medium as yet) and realize the messages conveyed by various thought leaders who have been to SIME. Particularly interesting is if you look at predictions made, from how Tom Crampton and Michael Oreskes connect media content, freemium and quality back in 2007 to the cloud computing movement by SUN, it is fascinating to actually realize these guys figured out the solution before people could understand the problem.

Last year, we featured 15 talk shows and 1 digest edition putting together them all under the banner of ‘all things digital’. And true to our nature of spreading digital knowledge, being inspired by the latest revolutions and innovations and hence inspiring our readers, we feature an introductory talk to kick off this season’s episode. Ola Ahlvarsson, the soul of SIME, moderator and catalyst for the whole brand talks about SIME to the folks from 23 Business (who have a great set of interviews btw at their vimeo channel) about SIME, the various editions of SIME in different cities and plans for 2010.

For those who  are new to SIME, this is a great start for you to get a tweet-vator pitch (not quite, but almost). Welcome to SIME and the family!

You can catch all the SIME Talks, Season 1, all Episodes here
A digest edition if you want to save time (I bet!)

Ola Ahlvarsson about SIME 2009 in Stockholm from 23tv.de on Vimeo.

Blogger Press Passes for SIME 09

This year SIME will again welcome a number of interesting bloggers to attend the event on a Blogger Press Pass!

If selected for a Blogger Press Pass, you get a full conference ticket to SIME09, which means you get access to the two conference days on November 11-12, but not the SIME Awards gala dinner. Unfortunately we don’t have room for everyone, so please fill out the simple application form below and we will consider your request.

What do we expect from Blogger Press Pass attendants? Basically – nothing. We hope you participate and make SIME a great conference, and cover topics you find interesting and that fit your blog as you normally would. You will have the opportunity to talk to and interview many of the international top speakers.

Please send your application before October 18. We will announce the Blogger Press Passes on October 26. If you have any questions about this initiative, please contact Mahesh Kumar mahesh@result.com

Messages from SIME Barcelona

SIME Barcelona was beautiful. I use the word beautiful in particular since it packed the best of SIME, combined with the perfect weather in a beautiful city. For me personally, SIME is the ray of hope in the dark winters in Scandinavia, and it adding to the energy in a sunny external was just beautiful. Probably synonyms for beautiful could also be inspiration, and enriching. And this post aims tries to package that inspiration and energy into this post, but as for the beauty of Barcelona and the lovely setting of SIME itself, sorry folks, its SIME magic.
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Mission: Inspiration Barcelona

And without a doubt inspiration is the need of the hour.  The global market place is undergoing dramatic shifts beneath your feet that businesses need to be on top of the knowledge node 24*7 to filter through the noise and find the gold mine. So the question is whether there is a secret recipe to stay on top of the puddle?

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