Entries Tagged as 'nextNY'

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Sports Media & Technology Conference

This week I attended the Sports Media & Technology conference presented by The Sports Business Journal and the Fantasy Sports Association. The conference is one of the few events in the sports industry where the spotlight is supposedly on digital sports media. While the conference certainly focused on leveraging new technologies and distribution platforms to [...]

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Farsebook?

The other day I signed on to Facebook and saw that my older sister (she is 28) had created an account. I was eager to get her take on the social utility because I equate her views as being representative of an average internet user. Too often people within digital media get swept up in [...]

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

nextSports: From Start To Finish

I’ve been a member of nextNY for about a year now. It’s a NYC networking group with a focus on tech and digital media and tends to attract the entrepreneurial types. On the website the description is that nextNY “is basically a fun way to connect both socially and professionally with young people who have [...]

Friday, March 30th, 2007

IMG World Congress of Sports

I spent last Wednesday and Thursday (March 21-22) at the IMG World Congress of Sports conference at the Pierre in New York City. The WCOS is perhaps the most prestigious sports business conference and consists of luminary panelists and attendees within the sports business industry. Naturally, this conference is held annually in New York City [...]