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State
of the Industry: 2011 and Beyond
address, Eli Goodman's discussion of Internet
Vital Signs, Jay Berkowitz's
highly informative session on the Top Ten
Steps to Building a Winning Website, a
workshop that provided tips on Buying
& Selling Domain Names, the Pitchfest
Contest and many others. There is a lot
of invaluable information in these videos and it
is very nice that DOMAINfest is making them
available to everyone at no charge.
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Scene
from the Generation Rescue
fundraising
party at the Playboy Mansion
(Feb. 3, 2011) |
Conference
organizers released some other show
details today as well. They said that a
post-conference survey showed that 94%
of respondents were satisfied to very
satisfied with their DOMAINfest
experience, citing networking
opportunities as the #1 benefit of that
experience. They also revealed that the
closing night fundraising party at the Playboy
Mansion wound up generating $33,000
for Jenny
McCarthy’s autism foundation Generation
Rescue. The funds will be
used to help numerous families get
services they need to help improve their
child’s quality of life with autism.
As
for the widely publicized suspicion that
the Mansion may have been the source of
a bacterial illness that struck many
conference attendees soon after they
returned home, the jury is still out.
This week I spoke with a couple of
attendees who had follow-up lab |
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tests
done by public health officials and
they said they are still waiting for
results. Until those come in we are
unlikely to hear a final verdict from
health department officials
investigating the incident. |
Though
the illness outbreak (something that was beyond
the control of conference organizers) became the
over-riding topic of discussion in the days
after the show closed (discussion amplified by worldwide
mainstream media coverage), the DOMAINfest
Global team deserves credit for delivering
another outstanding event.
(Posted March
22,
2011)
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