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  • Ken McCarthy organized and sponsored the first conference ever held on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web. His company Amacord Inc., formerly E-Media, was one of the first Internet-based businesses in the world.

    In addition to working with small and mid-sized business clients since 1993, McCarthy was a consultant to NEC's Biglobe, the largest online service in Japan, from 1996 to 2001. His book The Internet Business Manual was the first book on web entrepreneurship published in that country. He is also credited by Hotwired magazine with being one of the people responsible for the development and popularization of the banner ad, one of the key underpinnings of commercial Internet publishing.

    A graduate of Princeton University, McCarthy came to the Internet industry with a varied background which included technical consulting for two of New York's top investment banks, lecturing on educational psychology at MIT, Columbia, and NYU, and founding and operating a number of small businesses, including one that helped produce an Academy Award winning documentary.

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May 09, 2006

Sold out!

System 2006 is sold out.

Our seventh big System event since 2002... and our seventh consecutive sell out.  Next year, we're going to have to move to a bigger hotel.

The next two weeks are going to be a little hectic as we gear up for the biggest Internet marketing seminar and conference we've ever offered.

Twenty-three speakers, twenty-five specialized workshops, and attendees from around the world.

Corporate Internet events have certainy hit these numbers and then some, but System 2006 is the biggest conference for what I call "Internet bootstrap entrepreneurs" ever held.

We're the guys who don't have venture capital funds, scores of employees or bankers lining up to give us money. We live by our wits and are the source of much of the world's innovation. Finally, there's a conference for us!

The faculty for System 2006 reads like a "Who's Who" of today's leading Internet marketing experts.

You can read more about them here: System 2006 Blog.

May 09, 2006 in On the road |

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Tor

Hey Ken,
Tor here. I have to say one of the neatest things about the system seminar was......how I would sit in a class and next to me is the guy who taught the class on something else yesterday. That let me know that the stuff your people were teaching was "the cutting edge scoop from the experts" - cause experts in other internet feilds (example: seo and net video) where students in their class!
Or to just be socializing, mention "I wanted to know about blogs". Then the guy I'm talking to says hold on and brings over, from next to us, a guy. Interduces him as "he knows all about blogs". Then have the guy ask me a few specific questions and then tell me step by step how to achieve my goals! (The next day I saw he was the instructor in the blog class!) I never knew if the person beside me was a pro or trainee! The students and teachers were totally intermingled! No gurus - just a group of focused individuals. Awesome!
keep up the great work & save me a chair for system o7 !
Tor
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Posted by: Tor | July 05, 2006 at 07:37 PM

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