So I'm in my room with about 45 minutes to spare before I head to the Convention Center for the first time to see the wonder and awe that is CES. I'm also going to be giving a Spotlight Presentation at the Panasonic Booth talking about the future/benefits/trends of Web Marketing.
As an fyi, I'll be sharing the stage with people like Paul Tagliabue, Jon Landau and others.
Tonight we have the Tweet-up from 6.30-8pm at the Panasonic booth. If you're in town, I hope you can make it. More information here.
I'm a little apprehensive about the ENORMITY of a typical Las Vegas Convention - it's all a little intimidating at the best of times, but fortunately I'm sharing this experience with a great group of folk - from fellow crayonista, Greg Verdino, to the participating "influencers" including Chris Brogan, Steve Garfield, Melissa Pierce, Stacy DeBroff and Ponzi Pirillo (sadly Cliff Ravenscraft had to pull out for medical reasons...we all wish him a speedy recovery) and last, but not least, our Panasonic clients.
I arrived in Vegas yesterday just in time for the Panasonic Press Conference at the Venetian Hotel. It was a pretty cool experience and if you want to see some pics from the event, just visit my Flickr set here. Highlights included a portable Blu-Ray DVD player from Panasonic, a lot of news about 3DHD (yes, 3D as in abra abra cadabra....I want to reach out and grab ya), a Viera HD TV that is thinner than my fat finger and/or an iPhone and much more.
Here's a video from Steve Garfield which tells the tale of the tape.
After the press conference, we relaxed a little until dinner, which was a semi (I say semi, because we'll have some video to share within the next week or so) private intimate opportunity to hang out and to get to know one another.
One thing you're going to start hearing a lot about is this notion of "Living in High Definition" or LiHD for short. It's part of a much larger initiative that crayon has been fortunate to work with Panasonic on. You can see some of the initial work here. For now, let me just say that one of the highlights of
the event so far was meeting the Polak's and Colandro's - two of the participating families in the LiHD program. We actually got to share birthday cake with Matthew on his 6th party and I have to say, that if ever there was validation behind "Join the Conversation" and specifically, marketing as a conversation...this was it!
After dinner, I cannot confirm or deny that I won a whopping $60 playing Texas Hold 'em and Wheel of Fortune.
If you want to continue to follow our journey at CES, there are a few ways of doing so:
- The uber-Sweetcron aggrgated hub
- My Flickr Set
- Our tweets (search for hashtag #LiHD)
- Any of our individual feeds