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Last week I attended the SMX Social Media Conference in Long Beach California, here are some of my thoughts about the event.

The one thing that really stood out about this conference was the “focus” or “intensity” most of the attendees had about coming to learn and take in as much information as they could about the subject. At most conferences there’s a significant group of people who are there because there boss sent them, or they are looking for an excuse just to get out of the office, I didn’t see many of those people, most of them really came to learn about SMM.

IMHO one big change from this show over the last one was the lack of focus on Digg. The first show was digg, digg, digg, something else, digg, digg, digg. This show featured a much more balanced distribution of topics and subjects. Sure Digg is still the 800lb gorilla, but it’s good to recognize they aren’t the only game in town.

One of the new things we tried about this conference is twittering on the SMX twitter account. Full disclosure Danny handed the keys over to me on the account, but I’d really like some feedback there. I’m a big boy and if I sucked you can tell me, but at least tell me why it sucked, what you want to see more of or what in your opinion would make it better. I also was monitoring for SMX mentions using tweetscan. If you are speaker at a conference something you should be aware of if you suck or don’t connect with the audience chances are they will tweet about you.

Lisa Barone of Bruce Clay covered the conference and you can cruise over to the blog get a SMX conference session wrap up. Hey any chance we can get some info on how much traffic twitter sent you that week … c’mon pleeeeze ….

Jason Calacanis was one of the speakers and he created quite a stir. Sure he talked a bit of trash but I’m with Shoemoney you guys are way to easy to bait. Hey don’t take my word for it listen to the presentation and judge for yourself …