Posted on February 27, 2012
From Uncertainty to Enchantment
Now that the conference's various moving parts have all become aligned, it has prevailed upon us to choose a theme for the event. We undertook this on the advice of Laura Mayes, our Mom 2.0 counterpart. And when your advisor announces a humongous SxSW party on her birthday, you take that advice very seriously. We considered lots of ideas, of course, most of which centered around the flow of the conference. If you're a dad blogger, and you're coming to Dad 2.0, you're very likely investing in the business of creating your content, and looking for brand partnerships that will generate some sort of return. And even though ROI is important (because I without R leads to lots of IOUs), too many people try to achieve it way too quickly, and in the wrong order. There are several horses before this cart. Before you sell your content, you have to work on it to make sure it's good. Before that, you have to discover what it is you have to say about being a dad. And before that, you have to insulate yourself from some of the crummy stereotypes about manhood and instead resolve to change them, by word and by example. Dad 2.0 has been set up with a loose flow designed to mirror this sequence, from man to dad to writer to viable business owner. What sort of pithy tagline could we use to encapsulate that? And suddenly, the title suggested itself, based on the books of our keynoting bookends. In "Uncertainty," Jonathan Fields talks frankly about confronting fear and doubt whenever you try anything new--especially if that anything is a life change, like becoming a husband, or a father, or an entrepreneur. And in "Enchantment," Guy Kawasaki explains the tenets of any social media partnership, and how it can endure. How "on the nose" is that? We may arrive in Austin uncertain as to the true potential of dad blogging, but we all hope to leave enchanted with the idea of taking it as far as it can go. "From Uncertainty to Enchantment." Be there!
Posted on February 21, 2012
Our final speaker announcement … including our opening keynoter!
It's crunch time, folks. In less than three weeks, we'll all be at the Lost Pines resort, ready to launch into a full docket of dad-specific discussions. And we are very happy to announce these newest members of our speaking team:
- Paul Banas | Founder and CEO, Great Dad
- Lisa Belkin | Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family, The Huffington Post
- Susan Can | Director of Corporate Equity, Johnson & Johnson
- Jonathan Fisher | Chairman and COO, Brand Extract
- RJ Jaramillo | SingleDad.com
- Marc Nathan | Founder, Bulldog Financial
- Stephen Newman | CEO, CultureMap.com
- Manny Ruiz | PapiBlogger.com
- Bruce Sallan | Author, A Dad's Point of View
- Jeffrey Sass | JeffreySass.com
- Glen Stansberry | Co-founder, Gentlemint
- Michael Stern | Senior VP and Group Account Director, Zócalo Group
- Matt Thomson | VP of Platform & Business Development, Klout
Jonathan Fields is a dad, husband, New Yorker, author and speaker, serial wellness-industry entrepreneur, recovering S.E.C./mega-firm hedge-fund lawyer, slightly-warped, unusually-stretchy, marketing and innovation consultant, venture partner, and book-marketing educator.
His latest book, Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance, provides an in-depth, provocative, and highly-practical approach to embracing uncertainty as a catalyst for innovation.
Fields is regularly featured as an expert in the media, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, FastCompany, Inc.com, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Reuters, People, CNBC, FoxBusiness, CBS Radio, Vogue, Elle, How, Self, Fitness, People, O magazine, and thousands of websites. BusinessWeek named him one of the 20 people every entrepreneur needs to follow on Twitter (@jonathanfields).
This concludes the speaker-announcing portion of our program. And if you're wondering where all these ridiculously talented peoplefolk fit into our schedule, we've annotated our Schedule page to include who's speaking when and where. Plan accordingly!
17 days in the blink of an eye,
The Dad 2.0 CrewPosted on February 10, 2012
Announcing: Our third round of speakers!
It's the list you've been waiting so patiently for, the latest round of speakers who'll be appearing at the Dad 2.0 Summit next month!
- Shawn Bean | Executive Editor, The Parenting Group
- CC Chapman | CC-Chapman.com
- Adam Cohen | DaDa Rocks
- Jamie Grayson | TheBabyGuyNYC
- Craig Heimbuch | Editor-in-Chief, Man of the House
- Alan Heisterkamp | Director, MVP Leadership Institute at the Center for Violence Prevention
- A.J. Jacobs | Author; Editor-at-large, Esquire
- Adam Keats | Senior Vice President, Weber Shandwick
- Donny Killian IV | Manager of U.S. Operations, Movember
- Andrew Mellen | Entrepreneur, AndrewMellen.com
- Casey Petersen | Director of Social Media Analytics, Collective Bias
- William Pollack | Author, Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myths Of Boyhood
- Jerald Reichstein | President, Bouncing Pixel
- Stephanie Smirnov | President, DeVries PR
- Jeremy Adam Smith | Editor, Rad Dad; Publisher/Contributor, Daddy Dialectic
- David Wescott | VP for Social Media, APCO Worldwide
Posted on February 6, 2012
Announcing: Three more Dad2Meetups
These Meetups are working out so well, that we've planned three more!
- Atlanta: February 9, SweetWater Brewing Co., 5-8pm
- Houston: February 9, The Stag's Head Pub, 6-9pm
- Los Angeles: February 21, Lucky Strike, 7:30-10pm
