IZEAFest Day 1: Tweets Galore and So Much More

Call me tired, but instead of detailing the first day of IZEAFest, I'm just gonna share live-tweets and the video streams. I'll also provide a quick report card on the sessions:
- ShoeMoney Keynote: A-
- Improving Your Content: C
- Big Money Bloggers Panel: A
- Growing Traffic: B
- What Advertisers Want: B
- IZEA Innovations: A
- Overall: A-/B+

The IZEA Innovations unveiled were many, but I particularly liked SocialSpark Causes (Blog for Charity), Smart Blog Rolls, Sponsored Blog Networks (easy-button for large-scale, targeted blog advertising), Affiliate/CPA Posts and CloudShout (real-time presence/communication & one-click blog apps) -- including private alpha keys under our chairs. I'll provide more detail on CloudShout after I've had more time to play with it, but Tony Hung did a good job of capturing the potential of CloudShout -- imagine an iPhone Apps or Facebook Apps platform, built for your blog or the whole blogosphere.

As I often do for conferences, I decided to award a Day 1 Golden KangaRua to ShoeMoney -- delivering great knowledge pulling double-duty for Keynote and the Big Money Bloggers panel. Congrats Jeremy...don't we need to talk about your next project ;-)

OK...OK...it's self-serving, but I also gotta give major KangaRuas to IZEA's dev team -- the team looked like zombies (worse than the Facebook kind), but their innovations rawked!

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