Email Marketing Unconference/Barcamp: Who's in?

Anna Billstrom wrote a blog post on an idea she discussed with me when I was in San Francisco last week. Basically she would like to organize an email marketing unconference. We call it a Barcamp here in Belgium.

Basically the set-up is as follows: low to zero registration fee (if we can find someone to sponsor the location, food etc), cheap (but fun) location, agenda determined by the attendees, attendees are speakers and speakers are attendees...

Read Anna's post and let us know if you'd like to participate: http://www.banane.com/workblog/?p=648

You can either comment on the idea on Anna's blog, or on the Email Marketer's Club's forum.

Let us know if you'd be interested in helping to set this up or if you're interested in sponsoring.

Ideas for locations are welcome! Anything goes - we could even do multiple events in multiple continents.

Who's in?

Comments

[Johan de Keulenaer]

Hi Tamara,

Is this idea still alive? How's it going?

All best,
Johan

[Michael Straathof]

Dear Tamara/Anna,

Great idea. Especially since the level of the most commercial (and expensive) conferences are very basic. I keep wondering that every time the most subjects in an e-mail marketing summit is about subjectlines and newsletters. Let's have an unconference in which relationships is the topic. And e-mail comes in second place.

In other words, I'm in...

[Greg Cangialosi]

Tamara -

I left a comment on Anna's blog saying we should do Mailcamp :-) I've had mailcamp.org for a while and think doing an un-conference style event for email marketers would be great! I am open to helping organize and of course Blue Sky Factory will sponsor. Lets make it happen! its definitely time.

Greg

[Johan de Keulenaer]

Hi Tamara,

Good idea. For many EMM may seem to be a common/dying tactic, but I don't share that vision. EMM is key in building engagement and a cornerstone tactic in relevancy marketing.

Keep me posted on how this evolves since I'm sure I can deliver a contribution in some fashion :-)

Looking forward in how this idea progresses.

Johan

[Anna]

Stephanie, that's great!

[Stephanie]

I'm in Tamara and Anna. Great idea, love the "barcamp" / unconference idea, and have been to a few that have been great.

Let me know what to do to help!
SAM