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I’m in Las Vegas, but what happens here definitely won’t stay here. I’ll blog pretty regularly from the New Communications Forum, which begins this morning with pre-conference sessions, two in the morning and two (including the one I’m conducting on podcasting) in the afternoon.

The conference proper gets underway tomorrow with a keynote by David Weinberbger. Among the sessions I’m anxious to attend:

• Jeffrey Treem, from Edelman‘s Change and Employee Engagement Group, on how top companies are using social media to engage employees


• John Cass and Zane Safrit on the role an organization’s culture plays on the adoption of social media for internal communications


• Katie Payne on measuring social media’s impact


• A panel discussion on the social meia press release moderated by Chris Heuer and featuring Todd Defren, Brian Solis, Tom Foremski, and Laura Sturaitis.


• David Parmet moderating a panel on managing crisis communications in the blogosphere


• Jeff DeCagna on applying Web 2.0 capabilities as a foundation for innovation


• Linda Zimmer, author of the “Businss Communicators of Second Life,” on (what else?) Second Life.


• JD Lasica on citizen-generated video


• Jen McClure, executive director of the Society for New Communication Research, moderating Steve Crescenzo (he who cannot be moderated) and Jeremy Wright for the presentation of “Winners and Sinners.” This one should be a hoot.

There are other great sessions and speakers, but with multiple tracks, you just can’t get to them all. But since my wrap-up keynote is supposed to provide an overview of the conference, I need to do my best to get to as many as possible, which should result in a flurry of posts on what I’ve heard here.

Attendance is well over 350, and things kick off in 45 minutes. Stand by…

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