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DeVries PR at the 140 Characters Conference/LA

November 6th, 2009 | Posted By Stephanie Smirnov


Image via Jon Cronin and Whrrl

In case you missed all of the action over on our Twitter Stream, DeVries Public Relations teamed up with Jeff Pulver’s 140 Conference, the premiere Twitter conference focused on the “State of Now”.

At the #140conf events, we look at twitter as a platform and as a language we speak. Over time it will neither be the only platform nor the only language. #140conf is not an event about microblogging or the place where people share twitter “tips and techniques” but rather where we explore the effects of the real-time Internet on Business.

Our President, PRMama, a.k.a. Stephanie Smirnov wrote a great summary about the event and I have included an excerpt below and you can read the whole post here.

Our agency sponsored the “140 Characters” Conference in Los Angeles last week, supporting a two-day exploration of what conference organizer Jeff Pulver calls “The State of Now” and the effect of the real-time internet on culture. We created a DeVries PR Buzz Lounge in the lobby of the Kodak Theater, a place for everyone at the conference to recharge and connect. We kept them stoked with free caffeine, cupcakes and ethernet connections. We also thought it would be an interesting challenge to see if we could capture video sound bites from conference speakers and in something close to real time, send those sound bite packages out across the interwebz to give people at home a taste of what was happening at the conference. You can view and share these segments at our DeVries YouTube channel; meanwhile, this is a bit of what went on behind the scenes as we worked to bring our Buzz Lounge concept to life.

You can watch all of the videos on the DeVries PR YouTube Channel

Stephanie Smirnov is the President of the agency and can also be found at her personal blog PRMama.com.

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