{"id":110,"date":"2009-06-11T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellyourstoryinc.com\/wpdev\/?p=110"},"modified":"2016-07-21T19:23:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T19:23:45","slug":"bma-day-one-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/bma-day-one-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"BMA: Day One Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-auto wp-image-875 alignleft\" title=\"Annual Business Marketing Conference\" src=\"http:\/\/tellyourstoryinc.com\/wpdev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/annual-business-marketing-conference.jpg\" alt=\"Annual Business Marketing Conference\" width=\"200\" height=\"94\" \/>The fine volunteers and staff of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketing.org\/i4a\/pages\/index.cfm?pageid=1#.UBgAQGm3Cy8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Business Marketing Association<\/a> are doing a great job recapping the event so far. Here is the link to the official BMA Social Media site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketing.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.marketing.org\/unlearnlive<\/a> for links to twitter updates (#bma09), blog postings and official recaps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are my quick thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Someone said it best when commenting on the amount of people in attendance (300+) &#8211; &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a marketing recession, this is a marketing resurgence.&#8221; There was great buzz all day starting with the staging of the &#8220;man in the chair&#8221; McGraw Hill ad, to announcing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketing.org\/i4a\/pages\/index.cfm?pageid=3927#.UBgA5Wm3Cy8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GD Crain Award<\/a> winner Jeffrey Hayzlett, that night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid. That was a theme that was heard loud and clear throughout the day. Don&#8217;t be afraid to lose control and try new things as social media tools and tactics become more prevalent in today&#8217;s business world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Character counts was something else that popped out loud and clear, especially from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/us\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IBM<\/a>. The speaker from IBM quoted Lincoln and said, &#8220;Character is the tree, and reputation is the shadow. Concentrate on the tree.&#8221; Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn and the growth they&#8217;ve achieved still amazes me and their VP of Marketing did a great job ending the day before giving way to cocktails, a great comedian and an awards show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to visit the link above for more insight and recaps of the day, and follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesilverinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BlueSilver<\/a> on twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bluesilverinc\">twitter.com\/bluesilverinc<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fine volunteers and staff of the Business Marketing Association are doing a great job recapping the event so far. Here is the link to the official BMA Social Media site at http:\/\/www.marketing.org\/unlearnlive for links to twitter updates (#bma09), blog postings and official recaps. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,149,150,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-marketing-news","category-social-pr-news","category-business-marketing-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pairdesignchicago.com\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}