So many conferences to go to - the one's that I attend (IE:Social Media RoundTable Summary and WhitePaper ahead  - wrote about it at my own personal Web Analytics - The Analytics Guru Blog Third Tuesday in Toronto - what a long night!) vs. the others that I could not attend or didn't know anything about, like the Executing Social Media L.A. Wrap Up that just happened - and the same time, more or less, that I was in Toronto.

I wrote down much of what heard and spoke to - at the Roundtable - on The Analytics Guru, the eventual place my readers will go, hopefully, should I ever stop writing to Webmetricsguru.com (BTW, I'm not planning to stop - just want readers to look for my writings at TheAnalyticsGuru.com as you'll always find me there).

Getting back to Social Media and where it's all going - think The Flip (according to Peter Shankman who spoke at Executing Social Media L.A. Wrap Up, which I didn't attend - but I've been using The Flip for over a year, and took it to me to France, twice, and more or less with me everywhere.  I've gone through two Flips and I'm on my third one right now (they don't survive a drop very well - one drop could bust it, but in practice, it might take two or three times of dropping it to take a Flip out).

According to Stephanie Weingart, who attend Executing Social Media:

"…One very important thing learned and reinforced by the pros is the necessary purchase of the Flip TV camera. First pointed out by Phil Gomes when he shared an interactive review of the ESM Live Will it Blend of a Rake. Showing how 3 minute videos are more powerful than commercial, more engaging, and can be put into interactive forums with communities like PR Open Mic."

Ok, so  here we go - Where is all of this going? The Future of Social Media? 

Well, for one thing, if it's on Mashable - it loads slowly!  (reminds me to talk to Pete Cashmore about helping them …. perhaps the platform they're using, it can't serve up their content fast enough…..would not mind looking at their analytics. 

OK, the future … it's one platform, which a lot of feeds and intelligent agents - there's too much data coming at us and we can't keep up - or maybe it's me ….. Psychological Disorders Affecting Bloggers & Social Media Addicts (ha, ha)! 

Anyway, in the true spirit of Social Media …. and having done The Flip for longer than anyone mentioned (my YouTube Channel is full of videos of France and everywhere I took with The Flip - along with all the Art Openings and meetups I've recorded) - here's my video of the Social Media RoundTable and related events that I took this week in Toronto.