mesh conference

Last year, one of the mesh highlights was having David Usher appear on a music panel to talk about the industry’s future and how he had embraced social media to build a stronger relationship with his fans.

With the music industry still in flux and social media becoming even a more important part of marketing, sales and communication strategic plans, we’re excited about having David return to mesh where he’ll appear on a smaller media panel – more like a fireside chat – about what’s going on and where things are going.

I’m particularly interested in getting some insight from David about his new acoustic album. To get an idea of what songs to put on it, David put a post on his blog, and received hundreds of comments. Now, that’s what I call crowd-sourcing!

To get a sense of David’s approach to social media, check out his Web site/blog which features link to his Facebook, Youtube and MySpace accounts.

Here’s where you can register for mesh, while tickets for meshU are available here.

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As part of the lead-up to mesh 2009 — taking place at MaRS on April 7th and 8th — we’d like to announce a new “micro-sponsorship” campaign that we’re calling “Friends of mesh.” We’ve had a number of requests over the years from both individuals and companies who aren’t interested in a traditional sponsorship arrangement with us, but who would like to show their support for mesh in a smaller way, so we came up with FOM. All you have to do is register through InviteRight and sign up as Friend of mesh, and for $1,500 you get a ticket to the conference, your logo on our site and on screen at the event, plus a pass to an invitation-only VIP social event — and of course the eternal gratitude of myself and the other four mesh co-founders 🙂