Andy Warhol once said that “…everyone will be world-famous for 15-minutes.” It seems my fifteen famous minutes were to be spent with Kathie Lee Gifford. Yes, that Kathie Lee.
I spent the earlier part of this week in New York City for the Business Insider’s Social Media Analytics conference. One of the next challenges I’m taking on at MonkDev is figuring this out for the organizations we work with, as well as our own.
As you can imagine, the flights in and out of Des Moines are sparse, so I had a few hours to kill before my flight left after the conference concluded. I’d always wanted to visit the “Today Show”, so I wandered down to the West 49th-studio to see what all the fuss was about.
The t-shirt got it right: I <3 NY.
I just got back from a whirlwind visit to the Big Apple. Business Insider’s Social Media Analytics Conference brought me to town, held at Helen Mills Event Center. We talked shop. We talked social media. We talked, well, analytics.
I have to tell you, I wasn’t as blown away as I was anticipating. All the big boys were there: PepsiCo, Klout, Foursquare, Clickable, Buzzfeed. Respectable. But, as I soon learned, “social media measurement is in the Jurassic period.” As in, the Stone Age. Prehistoric. Uncivilized.
Turns out, we’re all just trying to figure this stuff out.
