I applied to speak at LeWeb3 08 this year - I attended last year as press, but I felt I had more to say, and it was on the stage.  Well, we’ll see if they pick up on my proposal – the theme this year is “Love”.  I’m getting into liking to speak – wanting to be in the larger stage.  It’s one thing to write about what others say – I’m doing a lot of that – but I also want to be part of the action.

Hmm… Love and Web Analytics, and Art.  Why not? I can definitely talk about Love – especially if that’s what they want to hear in Paris.  And I would not be stretching things much.

Here’s what I proposed I’d present  – Stay Tuned.   I’d really Love to speak at LeWeb3 08.

Oh well, we’ll see.

A brief synopsis (200-250 words) outlining the talk the speaker proposes. This must very clear address how the talk relates to the conference theme of “love”:

As a Web Analyst and an Artist I’ve been most interested in Social Networks for participating in the “global village” and as a platform to infuse more love in our lives.  We can measure the impact of Social Networks by those things which would not have happened without them (ie: Tweetups, Virtual Friends that become Real Friends), the much larger web of social connections that can be leverged for the good.  As an analyst, I’ve wanted to measure the effects of Social Network togetherness (that can be called a form of love).

Concepts like “engagement” (an investment of time and energy) can be measured, and therefore, concepts of love and togetherness, can be defined, and measured, even if the act of love, and love itself, is defies precise measurement.  I want to say that I love my friends, and I could have never met many of them without Facebook and Twitter.

It was the Social Network, and love of Art, that bought me to Paris twice last year and to Aix, to see my hero, and my favorite painter, Paul Cezanne, to walk though Mt,St Victore,, to connect with friends that I could have never known, so easily,  had it not been for the internet – I’d like to talk about how that all happened.  I’d like to talk about how Social Networks made my life better, and how it can be a constructive force in yours, and in anyone’s life.

As an additional note: I’m prepared to present the first set of Social Media Standards, crafted by my committee at the Web Analytics Association (you might say, crafted out of love) and how it might be used, to measure all the above).