Charles Hudson's Weblog

I used to run my own conference and events business until I sold it to the folks at WebMediaBrands in late 2009. As such, I get pitched fairly often by companies with tools and technology products looking to sell to event organizers. Invariably I tell the entrepreneurs to come up with a new model – [...]

I’m way behind on blogging and here’s why: I wanted to give you a heads up on an exciting event coming up in June. I’m working with Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed and David Sachs to organize a one day conference on social gaming in San Francisco and I hope you can make it out for [...]

I’m planning to attend SXSW from Tuesday the 11th through Thursday the 13th. If you plan to be there and want to meet up, let me know. Looking forward to what sounds like an awesome event.

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming CommunityNext Conference on March 29, 2008 in lovely Hollywood, CA. If you’re going to be in LA that week, let me know as I should be in town for a few days. More on the conference below – thanks to the team for giving me the opportunity to participate! [...]

I just decided that I’m going to CES in January 2008.  Are you going? Let me know. Also curious about any interesting parties / events happening between Sunday and Tuesday.

If you’re interested in the semantic web or generally want to hear from folks who are trying to push the envelope with what’s next on the web, I’d encourage you to attend this upcoming MIT/Stanford event on Web 3.0 and the semantic web: Web 3.0: New Opportunities on the Semantic Web Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 [...]

I’m planning to hit the >play conference at Berkeley on October 27th. Link to register is here. Drop me a line if you plan to attend.

I’ll be at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Thursday. I’m not exactly attending, but I will be in the general area and have a few meetings scheduled. Let me know if you want to meet up.

The Community Next team is gearing up for another event. I went to the last one and had a really great time. Details on the event can be found below. Sounds like a very interesting event format and it will sell out with a smaller number of tickets available. Please join Community Next for the [...]

Just a really brief post to let everyone know that the conference website for the Virtual Goods Summit is now live on the web. We’ll be announcing more speakers and panelists soon: http://www.vgsummit.com Feel free to leave me any comments or feedback you might have on our web presence. We’re going to be making a [...]