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Tim Leberecht of frog design just came up with three more rules for the chief meaning officer, bringing their number to a total of ten. As he spoke at next09 some weeks ago, he had just seven rules. Watch the video here. Seriously, Tim wrote an extensive and thoughtful essay on his topic...

The interactive age has brought us a bunch of new organisational trends and hot topics for discussion. So these days, everybody is talking about ideas like user-centric design, crowdsourcing, user-driven companies or even the wisdom of crowds...

I was really looking forward to post this amazing video. It covers the closing keynote Itay Talgam gave at this year's next conference. He is a conductor from Israel, and he showed us a beautiful and subtle lesson in leadership. Who is responsible for the music experience? The conductor...

Brian Solis opened the Main Conference Day of next09 with his keynote on the Social Economy. I don't think he refers to a third sector in economies between the private and the public sector. His topic is the Human Network...

In his latest book titled Remix, Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig outlined the potential he sees in a new Hybrid Economy -- one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. That future will benefit both commerce and community...

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, wrote an intriguing piece dubbed The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity for the latest issue of Wired...

Our media partner My-MIKI.com has updated the conference MIKI for the next09. A MIKI, remember, is a kind of mashup between magazine and wiki. It combines the look & feel of a print magazine with the easy editing of a wiki. You can embed it like a YouTube video or a SlideShare presentation...

Over the last several days, I've read tons of blog posts and articles from around the Web about this tiny conference we had the pleasure to host on May 5 and 6 in beautiful but then rainy Hamburg. Now I'm ready to share this stuff with you, in no particular order...

After the first two opening keynotes by Jeff Jarvis and Umair Haque and a short break, Andrew Keen entered the stage to talk about the Digital Vertigo. Dubbed the Antichrist of Silicon Valley by some, he surely knows how to provoke opposition by the true believers in the audience...

The second opening keynote was delivered by Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab and a strong advocate of a radical changed capitalism. Like Tim O'Reilly did with the web, he calls this Capitalism 2.0. Maybe we'll see Capitalism 2.0 Conferences soon...

Robin Wauters of TechCrunch fame yesterday did an interview with the indisputable star of the next conference, Jeff Jarvis about his book - What Would Google Do? - and his views on the traditional media industry and their current struggles...

While we are waiting for the conference videos to show up, it may be a nice pastime to watch this collection of beautiful event photos, taken by our official conference photographer. The best conference photos I've ever seen!

Today is day one after the next conference 2009, and our partner sevenload already has the first couple of videos online. Chapeau! We start with the first keynote on the pre-conference day, held by Jeff Jarvis...

Brian Solis keynotes at next09 today Well, the next conference 2009 started yesterday and finally runs under full steam today. This blog is quiet for now as we are busy running the conference. In the meantime, blogging is done elsewhere...

With Itay Talgam and his terrific closing keynote next09 ended just a few hours ago. Jyri is right: The maestro and his presentation just rocked. I hope and I am confident the whole conference did the same. Will write more later...

We at SinnerSchrader believe in the Share Economy. Otherwise we couldn't host an event like the next conference which costs us a significant amount of money each year...

A prominent success story of the Share Economy is Apple's iPhone App Store. It has enabled droves of developers to share their work with iPhone users while getting rewarded for it. But why did it take a newcomer like Apple to implement this simple but powerful business model...

Our media partner My-MIKI.com has launched the pre-conference MIKI for the next09. What's a MIKI? Think of a mashup between magazine and wiki. A MIKI combines the look & feel of a print magazine with the easy editing of a wiki. You can embed it like a YouTube video or a SlideShare presentation...

Self-employed business people, freelancers and small businesses know and hate it equally: having to chase after their money. Lexware has now developed a new, free tool which finally makes that a thing of the past...

From the very beginning of the next conference, we've videotaped every session. Over the years this has built up an enormous wealth of insights. For example, watch the video above with Stowe Boyd who will also speak this year...

Recently AdAge ran a piece that fits quite nicely with a panel I especially look forward to at next09. The question Katarina Skoberne from OpenAd and Ross Kimbarovsky of crowdSPRING will discuss next Wednesday on stage goes straight to the heart of agencies' creative departments...

Just eight days left until the next conference 2009 gathers more than 1000 people from all over Europe and the US. Yes, we passed the 1000 mark today and are still counting as many people buy their tickets in the last few days before the event...

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to meet Vivian Pein from Techfluff. She asked me a few questions about the next conference and uploaded the video to YouTube. (And it took me a full week to post it on this blog...

We've selected 18 start-ups for the start-up track at this year's next conference. Some of them already twittered that they will join us in just 13 days, but in most cases it's news...

next09 and DMMK join forces. We now have a special ticket offer for you in store: Get one of 50 combined tickets for both next09 and DMMK for just 790 Euro (ex VAT)! These special tickets are valid each for the Main Conference Day of next09 (May 6) and DMMK (June 9)...

The tiny picture on the left is my newfangled Twitter icon. You may notice the next conference logo in the upper right corner. Neat, isn't it? And what is best - it was pretty simple to tinker it...

Umair Haque is Director of the Havas Media Lab and keynote speaker at this year's next conference. His talk on May 5 will be about Capitalism 2.0 or Constructive Capitalism as he dubs it...

As we approach May 5, everybody starts to prepare for the event, even the speakers. And some of them are blogging their thoughts as they put together their speeches and slides. Enter Henriette Weber, the marketing rebel extraordinaire who has founded Toothless Tiger...

You're looking forward to the next conference on May 5 & 6 but still are still looking for a reliable childcare in Hamburg? We're offering to take care of your kids (4 years and older) while you are participating at next09...

Alexander Ljung who happens to be the founder of SoundCloud presented the Swedish startup from Berlin-Mitte last year at next08. By then, SoundCloud was still in private beta...

Tomorrow the wonderful Next Web Conference will kick off. This year's edition is quite promising, and I am sorry that I can't make it to Amsterdam...

Easter is coming up and it's time for a special Easter surprise. Check out our ticket shop to find the Late Bird category open! This is your chance to register for 490 Euro (plus VAT) and save 300 Euro compared to the regular ticket price. The offer is valid from today 12 pm until Tuesday 12 pm...

You're a start-up and don't have a ticket for next09 yet? Our sponsor Sun Start-up Essentials is giving away three tickets for free. All you need to be is a member of Sun Start-up Essentials. All you need to do is to be creative! Why is it you who should not be missing at next09...

As it turns out, we are going to have a lot of different colours at next09. Our own blue - or cyan, if you take a closer look - will contrast nicely with the yellow of Scholz & Friends in the Blogger Area...

As we've announced the Neptun Cross Media Award will be taking place within the framework of next09 at May 5. The most striking and efficient cross media campaigns of the past year will be awarded by Hamburg@work...

You are on a budget or have sparse time, but don't want to miss out on the networking at next09? Take your chance to see the keynote speech by Matthias Schrader, listen to the Twitter reading and be part of the Neptun Award Party for 55 Euro (plus VAT). Be our guest on May 5 starting at 5:30 pm...

On Wednesday we got a feeling for how mind-gripping the next09 is going to be. Jeff Jarvis, keynote speaker on May 5, was interviewed by Nicole Simon, member of our Advisory Board, at a press talk we held for a bunch of German journalists and bloggers...

Our preliminary programme is filling up fast. Nevertheless, the start-up track as well as the elevator pitch are still under construction. Lots of good start-up proposals reached us already. We're now giving you a last chance to participate in our Call for Participation until April 3...

Having Jeff Jarvis confirmed as a keynote speaker at next09, we are now going into detailed planning of the pre-conference day. On May 5 the conference is going to start off at 2 pm presenting four keynotes in a row...

At CeBIT Webciety some days ago Freddie Laker from Sapient Interactive was asked a few questions by Tanja Gabler, editor at Internet World Business. Full disclosure: CeBIT Webciety is an event partner, Internet World Business a media partner and Freddie Laker a speaker of next09...