Wednesday the 27th of March, I’ll be doing a solo 45 minute presentation on “Community Development and User Generated Content.” at the Startup Epicenter Conference in Mountain View, CA. I’m hoping to make in quite interactive and my simple goal is to make sure that everyone will leave with the understanding that User Generated Content is an awful way to say Passionate Interactive Participation.

Then on April 17th I’m organizing a panel for the Web2.0 Expo titled “Building Awesome Web Sites & Services Using the Power of Happy Users.” Confirmed panelsts are Stewart butterfield (Flickr), Joshua Schachter (Del.icio.us), Biz Stone (Twitter), all of whom employed massive amounts of customer particpation in many facets of traditional employee tasks. Dogster was able to get big on very little money be involving our members in product road map, QA, marketing, finding staff, community management, etc. etc. So I’m looking very forward to interview the Stewart, Joshua and Biz about their strategies, pit falls and success.

DETAILS:
• The Startup Epicenter, March 27-29th, Mt View, California
• Web2.0 Expo, April 15-18, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California