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ForumCon 2012 is June12th in San Francisco: Learning and Networking with the Best

There are quite a few online marketing, social media, and blogging conferences that you can attend, but up until just a few years ago, I couldn’t name a single conference that was centered around us forum administrators. That is, until I heard about ForumCon.

This year, Admin Talk will be a media partner. So a couple members of the team here will be attending and we may just have a couple free tickets to give away here and there as well.

Below are the key details for this year’s 1-day event in San Francisco on June 12th.

Where and When

ForumCon SF will take place at Hotel Kabuki (in downtown SF) on June 12th. The event will start at 9am and wrap up with a cocktail hour (free drinks) at a restaurant / lounge nearby.

More information on location as well as how to get tickets can be found here.

Key Sessions and Speakers

• Kris Jones, author of SEO: Your visual blueprint for effective internet marketing will show you how to better leverage Google Search, Mobile, News, +, to generate more traffic to your forum.
• Tyler Tanaka of PostRelease will share best practices for content curation & creation that will wow your community members and keep them coming back.
• Steve Dodd of Boardreader will lead a panel of social media experts, and forum owners that have successfully leveraged social media, to discuss ways forum owners can successfully leverage Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites to drive traffic to their sites (rather than away from).
• A panel of monetization experts (representing all types of forum monetization options -- images, banner ads, content, link insertion, data, video) will answer all your questions on how to EARN MORE from your forum.

Why Attend
“I wanted to provide forum owners with a venue to congregate, network and get better at being an administrator … for me, ForumCon is just that … it allows me to meet new people, put faces to names, and learn new things.”

Jack Bafia
Forum Owner



- So it looks like we may have a couple tickets to give away to Admin Talk users.
1st off.. It's in San Francisco June 12th, 2012..Who all would be eligible to go, be able to provide transportation to the event?

Let's do this.. If you would like free tickets to this event then reply here and let us know you could go. Then I'll see how many tickets we have (at least 2) to give away and randomly select users from this thread who can make the event.

If you can't make the event, you can still reply to this thread and discuss it

 

My Birthday is 4 days after, man that would be a great present being able to attend that. Sadly I cannot afford the travel expenses.

 

I'd love to attend ForumCon but sadly i'm not in the SF area and to get there would be quite a hassle and a bit of money. Maybe one of these days I'll be able to attend all the conventions I want to attend Maybe one day.......

 

Damn, already bought my ticket

 

Jack Bafia from VigLink shares why he founded ForumCon:

 

maybe you can take a couple friends?

Thanks for the video @Murray Newlands

 

I'd be interested in going!

Especially if it's free!

I happen to live in the area, soooooooooo.....!

 

yup free tickets to the event

We have at least 2 tickets to give out, I haven't seen anyone else speak up so it looks like you're odds are pretty good @Carlos

 

I'm in NYC for 6 months, but can't afford going to the West Coast

 

Did you decide if you are going Brandon?

 

I'd love to go and meet everyone but with the moving this year and everything that's been going on I won't be able to attend.

 

“A great deal of our customers are forum owners and in talking to them we realized that there was no great place for forum owners to meet... and discuss the industry, and we realized a lot of the leaders in the field had never met each other..."

Oliver Roup
Co-Founder, ForumCon
Founder and CEO, VigLink

 

Julia Barret
Senior Manager, Marketing
eBay Partner Network

As Julia says, "Let's use [as an example] [forums about motors]... [There might be] a team of people chatting away about one particular motor versus another motor, for that traffic to come back to eBay, and targeting that specific motor that they're talking about and... vouching for or promoting... it's great for us because we're obviously going to see a conversion come out of that..."

 

Chris Saad
Co-Founder and Strategic Vice-President
Echo

 

Dan Gill
Huddler
At ForumCon Chicago, Dan Gill talks about the three types of forum users and why you need to think about each one. It seems like a fairly basic topic, but what he says could surprise you:

 

Thanks for the updates @Murray Newlands
I'm moving this month but would definitely buy tickets if otherwise!

Maybe next year

 

Jeremy Liew
Managing Director, Lightspeed Venture Partners

 

Very interesting indeed! it's a shame that we don't have that in Mexico, someday I guess, when we move on from being a third world country, someday...
Congrats for these people that put effort and money to setup Forumcon.
Cheers

 

JJ McCarthy
eBay

 

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