I had the chance and wonderful opportunity to attend as well as present at this year’s Digital Media Summit, sponsored by the Louisville Digital Association. This was a fun conference to go to and had an amazing time presenting as well as listening to all of the great talks at the event.

Plus, I was able to see some amazing professionals in attendance at the conference like Dennis Yu, Alex Houg, Melody Murphy, Hailey Heishman, Christy Belden, Todd Krise, and Sam Douglass. Great to see you all in attendance!

We had so many great speakers at the event and I felt I walked away with a ton of new knowledge not only to guide me for what to cover for my social media class this upcoming spring at UofL, but also within my own research. As soon as I left the conference, I reviewed and edited my syllabus for my class to include some of the tips, best practices, and lessons learned from the event.

We are seeing great number of changes in the field where the expectations for operating, communicating, and engaging in new disruptive techniques and technologies to advocate for change and rethinking of traditional principles and industries. I was able to take in a great deal from all of the fellow speakers. It was also great to finally meet some of these amazing professionals in person like Rick Murray and Kyle Lacy – I have been following them on social media for a while and it was wonderful to speak to them at the conference. Also, I had the chance to meet Erik Deckers, who is an outstanding writer and an author of one of the books I recommend my students to read for my social media class. Very cool!

What did I talk about at the LDA Digital Media Summit? I was able to talk a little bit about crisis communications – what I am seeing emerging from the field and what I am currently working on as part of an extension of research I have been doing over the last few years. I was very honored to be asked to speak by Jason Falls and I was actually able to share the story where Jason saved the day while we were traveling back from the Integrate Conference.

If you are interested in what the speakers talked about, Jason Falls and the great team at LDA created a page where they have all of the presentations uploaded so you can see them on Slideshare. You also may want to check out the great key takeaways post Todd Krise has written about the event as well over on LinkedIn – great insights and summaries!

So, I would like to take this time to thank Jason Falls, Nick Huhn, and the rest of the great and amazing team at LDA for allowing me to be part of this amazing event. This was the largest one yet and it is a must go to conference for students, professionals, and professors who are actively engaged in new emerging media and technologies.

Hope you all are having a great day!

Best Wishes,
Karen