Whew! I just returned back to San Diego from the amazing Gravity Social Media Summit at Harvard. The event was held at the historic Harvard Faculty Club and was a sight to behold. The rapid pace of the event and the amount of truly insightful content that was shared by the presenters and attendees was truly amazing. To have this many great minds in 1 room at 1 time helping each better understand how businesses are using social media for high impact results is a sight to behold. The huge online engagement from the Twittersphere immediately added to the conversation. To have this massive reach to a worldwide audience is a sign of how important conversations get shared online.
There were well over 4000 Tweets and #gravsum was a trending topic on Twitter. This just goes to show the enormous digital reach and rapid velocity of great content being shared outside of a physical location with just 120 attendees.
The entire days events were live streamed on CNN.com/Live to a worldwide audience. Here is a Live interview with MC Hammer from the event that ran on CNN Television.
We also had amazing local media coverage:
Boston Business Journal
The Boston Globe: MC Hammer Appears at Harvard.
The Boston Pheonix: Hammer Swings Thru Harvard
MassHiTech: Journal of New England Technology
Gawker Media: 7 Celebrities who should get on Twitter
Video from the Boston Globe of an interview with MC Hammer discussing Social Media.
We also had many Bloggers writing about the event; here are just a few.
Bourne Social: Veritas meets Gravitas
Mike Schnieder: Gravity Summit: Vaynerchuk Brings The Thunder
Edward Boches: Creativity Unbound: 4 Lessons from a Social Media Conference
Ari Herzog: Lifting Social Media Marketing with Gravity
Mike Proulx: Harmonic Aftershock: Live from Gravity Summit Part 2
Traackr: Random notes from Gravity Summit
A set of 252 great photos from Joseline Mane
Another set of 130 Photos from Gradon Tripp
This highlight reel was put together by Andres DeLeon from KnowItUp and was featured on the home page of Viddler.
New England Cable Network did a great news piece about Gravity Social Media Summit at Harvard and interviews, MC Hammer, Gravity Summit Founder Rodney Rumford and Troy Kelly from Arnold.
Our Second Keynote Speaker was Gary Vaynerchuk. He has a new book coming out in the Fall called “Crush It”. I just like to call him Mr. Passion.
You can see all of the power point presentations from Gravity Summit at Harvard on SlideShare
A special thanks to all of the Sponsors of the event. Without them this event would not be possible, so show them some social online love. They all “Get It” and thier support is much appreciated. Turbo Tax Online, Visible Technologies, Go Daddy, Cisco, Tweetphoto and Pitch Engine.
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