Published:

June 16, 2008

All fuel'd up!

One Black Bear attended the Fuel conference at the Royal Institute of British...

One Black Bear attended the Fuel conference at the Royal Institute of British Architects on Friday 13th June. We had a great time and took some clients with us to back up our talk on the new web (Bookmark This).

The event followed the theme of entrepreneurs and marketers who want to make their companies, services and products truly remarkable and covered the following subjects plus more:

  • Web 2.0;
  • social marketing;
  • online communities;
  • twitter;
  • blogging;
  • video;
  • grabbing the limelight;
  • web apps;
  • transparency;
  • the new rules of business.

Speakers included and our presonal performance rating:
(http://fuel-conference.com/speakers)

Ryan Carson & Keir Whitaker - Carsonified 
(informative and good)

Tara Hunt - Citizen Agency 
(was like running a marathon, but felt like you had achieved gold in the end)

Alex Hunter - Virgin
(very interesting insight in to strategies used by a big company like Virgin)

Daniel Spronk & Stefan Fountain - Soocial 
(both completly bonkers, fun, we hope Holland win the euros)

Paul Boag - Headscape 
(had an excellent theme for his presentation - and we loved the ranting)

Ted Hunt - Innocent Drinks
(very interesting - especially loved how they call their users 'family' and how they market to them)

Steve Pearce - Poke London
(yawn - sorry)

Andrew Scott - Rummble
(okay, would love to see if this takes of)

Richard Moross - Moo 
(interesting, although we didn't learn much - surprised how many times they have moved office)

Below are some useful tools used and links to sites which we found useful - enjoy!

wufoo.com
Wufoo's form creator makes collecting information online easy. Our web-based software builds HTML Forms, Surveys, Event Registrations and more.

twitpic.com
You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, our API, or through the site itself.

twitterfeed.com
Feed your blog to twitter.

libsyn.com
Full featured service tailored specifically for media self-publishing and podcasting. Price is based on usage, changing monthly if needed.

compfight.com
Flickr search tool.

rememberthemilk.com
Manage tasks quickly and easily.

tactilecrm.com
Low cost, affordable web based, simple CRM for your business - an easy way to track your sales, deals, emails and customer contact.

summize.com
Search Twitter in realtime — more conversations coming soon!

slideshare.net
SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world.

280slides.com
With 280 Slides, there's no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like. (We like this more than slide share)

uservoice.com
UserVoice adds structure to feedback and reduces the overhead of an honest dialog with our users — It creates a market around good ideas

Visit our flickr account to view pics from the event.

Lets Talk

Leave your phone number or email address below and we will contact you back

Or you can call us on 0121 288 2296