Image courtesy of Brian Lane Winfield Moore

Are you coming to Washington, DC next week for TWTRCON? I’m not terribly certain what the unified purpose of this conference is. Like many “social media gatherings” of the modern age, it may just be an excuse for A) some social media startup to charge the fuck out of its attendees, and/or B) a bunch of social media “gurus” to get together and jerk each other off.

To be fair, the prior TWTRCON in San Francisco seemed to go over well with attendees and guests. There have been quite a few of these types of conferences where people wrestle with what Twitter is and how it can be used for business, marketing, or whatever. I like how inherently social this makes Twitter’s users feel if they can actually unplug from their hashtags and muster up the gumption to shake hands with people they don’t know physically.

Courtesy jdlasica.

So… we’ll see how it goes. One of my ulterior motives for going to this thing is to stalk David Armano and conversate with him about all the cool new things happening at The Dachis Group. Something that’s been intriguing the pants off me in this weltering morass of social media madness has been Armano‘s (and now Dachis’s) concept of “social business design.” I think this concept is going to be the Next Big Thing, with the potential for crossing all kinds of boundaries that social media doesn’t. More about this in detail in a future post.

Let it be known that Ye Olde Du4 has actually submitted an idea to TWTRCON’s Open Mike Contest, and that tweet can be found here. The basic idea is an encapsulation of the intent of this blog (and potentially a future business!). I’m not sure how the judging is performed, but keep your fingers crossed that I’ll have an opportunity to wow the crowd with the power of my ROCK.

If you’re at TWTRCON DC, shoot me a DM at @Du4 to link up.