Where to find us next

Below are upcoming Ant's Eye View events, speaking engagements, industry trade shows and travels where we will be in the near future. If you're interested in having us speak at your event, contact us.

  1. Get Real World Tour: Real Results with Social Customers featuring Sean O’Driscoll

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    Dates:
    Tuesday, September 14, 2010, San Francisco
    Wednesday, September 22, 2010, Chicago
    Tuesday, October 12, 2010, Atlanta
    Wednesday, October 13, 2010, Dallas

    URL: http://www.lithium.com/conference/getreal/
    Contact on the anthill: Sean O’Driscoll

    Who Should Attend: B2C and B2B companies. Brands and agencies. Executive Marketers, Digital Strategists, Community Managers, Customer Advocacy Managers, Social Media Strategists. And anyone who cares about their customers.

    What will you get?

    • Real world case studies from brands who are generating measurable results with social customers and influencers
    • A thorough understanding of how customer communities increase the effectiveness of online marketing programs
    • In-depth demonstrations of the simplest, most intuitive way to measure and manage social media
    • Quality Q&A time with expert speakers

    About Sean O’Driscoll:
    Sean O’Driscoll is currently CEO of Ant’s Eye View, a strategy development and consulting firm that helps guide mid to large-size companies through the process of transforming customer experience and brand engagement by activating and embedding customer voice into all aspects of a company’s social business.

  2. Social Media is a Powerful Tool for Small Business

    Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010
    Location: Online Webinar
    URL: http://www.marketingprofs.com/marketing/online-seminars/298
    Contact on the anthill: Sean McDonald

    Who should attend: Small business leaders (CEO, COO, Marketing, Customer Service, PR) and Managers tasked to develop a social media plan for their company

    So much is written about large corporations capitalizing on social media (Comcast Cares, Dell Learns to Listen, My Starbucks Idea, Old Spice videos). What about small businesses? Do you believe that social media is out of reach because you don’t have the resources or experience? Or maybe you just don’t know where to start?

    Social media is better suited for small business than large corporations. Not all large corporations are engaging with social media (for variety of reasons), but small companies can benefit from social media because you are small—you are nimble, less bureaucratic, and at times more human than a large brand. Join us as we share with you why your small business is better suited for the new frontier and lessons that can be learned from both small and large companies that have already embarked on their social media journey.

    Social media democratizes commerce. The best businesses have always established and nurtured great relationships with customers, employees, suppliers, and the general public. Somewhere over the last 50 years the relationship became one sided—company talks, people listen. Now the relationship has shifted to people talk, company listen. Great companies today are operating in the middle ground where they talk, but first listen.

  3. Call for Creative Ideas – How would you like to see us promote our SxSW Panel "Tired of @#%ing Social Media Experts?"

    August in Austin. Muy caliente outside and an onslaught of shameless “asking for votes” in the SxSW panel picker.

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    I’m a little different – yes, I’d still like to get your vote and ask you to recommend my “Tired of @#%ing Social Media Experts?” game-show style panel presentation to your 519 Facebook friends, but I’d also like you to get involved in the process.

    I’m talking to you, (yes, you in the red shirt, third row on the iPhone) what do you need to see or hear to get you and your friends to vote for my panel? A personalized video of a guy on a horse? A Top Ten List? A front row seat at my panel? Details are what’ll get your request heard and my co-host, the fabulous funny man himself, Sam Decker and I will give it serious consideration (which means he’ll follow through on the ideas I like). Just kidding, Sam!

    Crowdsourcing is key to our game show panel. Why a game show? Well, because they are fun, light-hearted and almost everyone has a chance to be a winner (great prizes can’t hurt either). Sam Decker and I will serve as your humble game show hosts and we’ll select audience members for an exciting battle of the wits. The winner takes the title of Master Chief of the Social Media Universe – or Social Media Expert for short.

    With a mix of 99% fun (at least for Sam and me) and 1% education – this panel will be sheer entertainment. Let’s be honest, we all deserve a break from the normal panels and presentations. And Tired of @#%ing Social Media Experts? is your chance for just that. It’s a comical break during a long educational week at SxSW.

    So here’s what we’d ask of you:

    1) vote!

    2) get your friends to vote

    3) please comment with your ideas on how to promote the panel

    Voting ends Friday, August 27. Stay cool.