Coolness AND Content - SCRM Goes Global in the Same Room

Last night or yesterday or really early in the morning, depending on your location, SCRM's chief salon empresario, Tatyana Kanzaveli and a remarkable group of CRM/SCRM thought leaders, practitioners and others who break molds regularly "met" via video, and Cisco Telepresence in 16 cities around the world in the first telepresence driven meetup at least in the CRM industry if not any place ever. Pretty cool huh? I wasn't there except via video (prior stuff had me locked in) but I watched it this morning and damn, not only was the technology really cool, even on JustinTV but the content was excellent. Much of that was the combination of leaders who were there. Esteban Kolsky ran the panel discussion with his usual iconoclastic approach - so it was actually interesting. Particularly making me happy was seeing Mei Lin Fung, one of the true CRM pioneers who goes about her business very quietly, globally and has far more to say and far more more impact than some of the louder voices out there. Her insights are always unique and important. Also at this global confab were among others (sorry if I don't mention you) - Ray Wang (Altimeter Group), Katy Keim (Lithium), Peter Grambs (Cognizant), Brian Solis (Futureworks) among a dozen others had a rather spirited discussion on Social CRM and its future. Rather than me trying to replicate this in prose, I'm going to instead embed two videos - first, my keynote video and then the actual event - Esteban, you were awesome as a moderator. Congrats to Tatyana for something original, cool and most importantly, conversation-worthy. Lots of smart folks in the room - holographically that is.

The event kicked off with this keynote:

But now the REALLY Cool Stuff - Global SCRM Meetup with Telepresence

Watch live video from VineBuzz on Justin.tv

Comments

[A. Prem Kumar]

As I explained it to my clients with whom I was yesterday & thus couldn't participate myself - it was a historic, first of its kind event in the world which mixed real life & virtual congregation of various thoughts leaders, vendors, practitioners and the audience from across the globe via both enterprise & consumer social tools like telepresence, webex, phone, youtube, twitter & livestreaming (justin.tv).

Tatyana, very original & bravo! For both thinking this up & pulling it off!

Esteban, poor you! You go down in history as the first moderator of such a complex panel ... double bravo! ;)

Prem
Thinker, Tinker, Connector

[Lstigerts]

Okay, that's a pretty bad-ass meeting setup for remote attendees. Got goosebumps when I saw people across screens interacting as if they were in the same room. We're getting closer to that Star Wars holograph technology, aren't we? :)