Internet World

As an IW Blog “early adopter”, you have enjoyed periodic access to what goes inside our brains here at Internet World Towers. We’d like to reward your close interest in all things IW by giving you a chance to get ahead of the game and start thinking about content you’d like to see at next year’s show.

So, we will be running a total of 7 theatres next year, which will be:

Keynote
Enterprise Content Management
Online Advertising and Search Marketing
Email, Mobile and Web Analytics
Design & Build – Usability & Web 2.0The Masterclass Theatre (incorporating Hosting/Connectivity and cutting edge technologies)
E-Commerce

We will be sending out our official Call for Papers in early September, but in the spirit of user-generated content we would like to give you, blog readers, a chance to suggest some of the hot-button topics our audience will NEED to hear come April 28th next year.

This can either be a topic that you want to hear about or one that you can speak about

Quick tips for getting your proposed content on to the final agenda

Before you send in concrete ideas in response to the official Call for Papers, we would like to suggest some tips for you to maximize your chances of securing one of these prestigious speaking opportunities:

Think about how compelling a session this will be from the layperson’s point of view – YOU may know that Rupert in Marketing is the best public speaker since Winston Churchill, but how can we get that message across to our audience?

Take some time to ask, do we have any clients that we’ve had really strong results in this area from? Would they be willing to come along and spend 30 minutes co-presenting? Our experience shows that sessions featuring prominent end-user client-side speakers get much better response, and also help us as organizers build a buzz that Internet World is THE place to find out what companies are actually doing in the digital space. Not that it isn’t already of course…

Finally, are you thinking of submitting the same presentation title you did last year, and the year before that? Of course, we welcome many many first-time visitors, but try to think about the one thing your company has done (or will have done) since this year’s show that you’re REALLY thrilled about, and then refer back to points 1 & 2 to ensure that you’re giving yourself a fighting chance of making it through the final cut.

So for suggestions, please leave a comment but if you want to submit a proposal, click here

That’s all for now – watch this space for regular updates as we pick up the pace to put together the show the internet space needs, and deserves. Thanks for your time today.

PS – make sure you give us your feedback on the newsletter winging its way to you later today – not that we blow our own trumpets, but we’re rather impressed this month…