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The Fastest Talking Guy in Social Media Tells Us Where All of This Might Be Going

May 22 at 8:08pm by

This is a guest post written by Jackie Peters, CVO and Founding Partner of Heavybag Media.

I’m here at day two of the Executing Social Media conference in Pasadena, CA. Blogger, PR stuntman, and social media maven Peter Shankman gave a very energetic keynote on how the social web is changing the way we do business and make money. Peter is CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc. and has recently launched Help A Reporter Out (HARO,) a service that helps journalists connect with sources.

Peter prefaced his entire presentation by telling us the problem with predictions; he played a short clip from the movie Back to the Future 2, which was released in 1987. According to the film, in 2010 we would have a fax machine in every room - the Internet hadn’t proliferated yet and fax machines were what the writers could envision.

That out of the way, Peter went on to share with us a few predictions he has about the future in regards to social media and technology. Peter sees an information overload starting to occur. There are too many channels, tools and platforms out there. He sees a convergence into one tool that helps you manage your entire network from any device at any time and automates the process for you. He cites FriendFeed and Socialthing as an early entrées into the space.

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