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Geek Dinner Toronto II – The Conversation Continues

I’m zonked. Dead on my feet. We did not finish up Geek Dinner Toronto II until a little past midnight this morning. Michael Seaton and I sent out invitations via email and our Blogs and over twenty of Toronto’s Digerati and marketing professionals agreed to join us tonight over at Brasserie Frisco.
The guest list included people from Microsoft, Pepsi, Sears Travel, RIM, Rogers, the Canadian Franchise Association and many more. I’m actually frustrated that I didn’t have enough time to talk with everybody.
After dinner, we recorded a great thirty-minute-plus conversation (check out the next episode of Six Pixels Of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast for the clip). The participants for the recording were:
– Michael Seaton – Scotiabank and The Client Side.
– Sulemaan Ahmed – Sears Travel, One Degree and The Canadian Marketing Blog.
– David Jones – Fleishman Hillard, Inside PR and PR Works.
– Chris Clarke – Thornley Fallis and Student PR.
– Ed Lee – iStudio and Blogging Me Blogging You.
– Sean Moffit – Agent Wildfire.
Ed Lee has a great photo over here: Blogging Me Blogging You – Digerati Dinner.
Too many smart people in one room. Too many great conversations going on at once. Social media is not just about Blogging and commenting. I sincerely believe that the friendships we are developing in person were facilitated by this new way of communicating. Through the power of Blogs (like this one), I am able to be introduced to and develop relationships with people from all over the world who enjoy the same types of things as I do. I’m also lucky enough to get introduced to what is of interest to them… and I’m a better person because of it.
I can’t wait for Geek Dinner Toronto III. We may just yet take David Jones’ name suggestion: My Big Fat Geek Dinner.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.