Darren Herman

I personally believe that when you bring smart people together and provide an underlying specific topic, a rich and diverse conversation can be ignited. The power of the conversation that is ignited is only as strong as the diversity and intellect of the people contributing. darrenSalon is the underlying online and offline platform for Intelligent Digital Media and Technology Conversations and I’m launching the non-profit platform today.

darrenSalon will host one large gathering in 2007 (85+ people) in New York City that will mimic my previous gathering which was held in the end of 2006. In addition to the large gathering, I will personally host 1 WineTable each month for up to 8 people who will be hand chosen from the pool of people who have registered for the particular WineTable. Registrants will be contacted up to 2 weeks prior to the WineTable to let them know they have been selected and a venue/time will be confirmed.

The WineTables will be based around digital media and technology and will be on one particular subject. Upcoming subjects include (but not limited to): Web 2.0, virtual worlds, semantic web, consumer generated content, future of advertising, DRM, advertisement measurement and quantification, media vs. creative, ubiquitious WiFi, green-tech, and much more.

I encourage you all to register for an account at darrenSalon.org, and sign up for darrenSalon 2007 (Q3/4 2007) and/or for an upcoming WineTable. You can sign up here.

• Q. How did the name darrenSalon come about?
• A. Originally, it was named darrenCamp. Charlie O’Donnell unofficially named my previous gathering darrenCamp and it sort of stuck. I was going to use [darrenCamp] officially until I had dessert with Andrew Sispoidis and he told me that what I really am doing is hosting a ’salon’ type event. After modifying a bunch of graphics on the site, we now have darrenSalon but you can access the site by typing in www.darrenCamp.org or www.darrenSalon.org.

** please note that this is a non-profit project and I will be doing this in my spare time to further my intellectual development. I will not be leaving my current role at IGA Worldwide Inc., or any other organization.