New TeeVee Live is an annual get-together of movers and shakers in the Digital Media/New Media/Content Development and Marketing world that will take place at San Francisco’s Mission Bay Conference Center on November 13, 2008. There are going to be guest speakers from every aspect of the Industry from advertising folks to network showrunners to people like Michael Buckley (”What the Buck”) and Felicia Day (”The Guild“.)  ICM’s new media super agent, George Ruiz, has also tweeted about being in attendance.

It looks like a valuable day of discussions and information of great benefit to anyone interested in New Media and Web Content Production.  Early bird registration has already sold out, so tickets with be $595 for the day.

Oh, and don’t look for me there … I’ll be at work.  $595 is more than the current production budget for BooWorld, and I’m about to go over that figure.

As was pointed out to me in a tweet from Tim Street, New Media is a contact sport … All about getting out and making friends.  Maybe I can hang out at the Starbucks near the event and make some new New Media buddies over a cuppa’ joe.  I’m all for networking, especially of the social variety, but these New Media events seem to be popping up one-a-week in NY, LA and San Francisco, and they are all charging pretty big coin (for a micro-budget community) to get in.

Look, I don’t have a problem with people making money, in fact some of the folks at NewTeeVee Live are folks whose work I respect and successes I’d like to emulate.  But I’m not willing to pay those kinds of entry-fees to get proximity to folks who really don’t need the contact from a newbie, unless you’ve met them along the way already.  The folks who already have deals, who have been working in the New Media medium for a couple of years are largely interested in networking-up to the next level.

These events remind me of the IFP Markets and other events.  They promised great access to Indie Film professionals and dealmakers, but by the time it got big enough, the dealmakers there were already looking to deal with folks who were already capable of doing festival-level productions.  In short, they weren’t interested in talking to folks looking for financing or deals.

We do need New Media networking events, and yeah it would be great to have folks there who’ve already have weathered the storms through some successes and failures, but these events need to be at a more grass roots level that are big on interaction and low on cost.

Hmmnnnn … Sounds like an idea waiting to happen?

2 Responses to “New TeeVee Live in San Francisco – But is it worth it?”

  1. Micah Stephens Says:
    November 2nd, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    The cost of these events is prohibitive for the people that could really use the information and interaction.

  2. Doug Luberts Says:
    November 2nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Precisely … Besides, most of the folks there are people we’re interacting with through social media already.

    Sure, I’d like to meet them face-to-face, but I’d rather put the money into something that will show up on screen in my show.

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