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Calling all bloggers, podcasters & citizen journalist: This is the show for us! Content! Content! Content! is queen er king for those who want to have a voice to the global community. From foodies & fashionistas to political junkies and Live from the scene, they all gather to learn what is new! hot! now! in the world of media.
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Breakfast spread for the early birds at NMX
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New Media Expo welcomes bloggers (that’s us)
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Renegades Write the Rules book was our check in swag
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#NMx -New Media Expo – WordPress Booth Bunz models tshirt
Did I mention there were parties?
In continuing the trend from 2010 forward, G2E – the annual event that is every thing gambling was earlier this month, held at the Sands Convention Center. So many blinging lights – so little time. But if ever there was an industry that is better off in 2012 than in 2008 – it’s the gaming industry. There was a great social media seminar and always get good takeaway information. Thanks to Masterminds for sponsoring the tweet up.
Our biggest take-away was the implementation of hand held devices in the casino experience. Sports books are the 1st to take on online gaming but in the next 3-5 years (or sooner) slot machines will be replaced by the nextGen ipad (or tablet equivalent)
WMS gaming introduced a number of new pop culture centered slot machines including the KISS brand lead by the Demon & StarChild, Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley (who looked amazingly good for having lost his mom 2 days before the ribbon cutting, may she RIP) Kiss nation was out in force or at least hired models dressed as KISS were.
Automatic bingo is the next big floor game. No longer requiring a huge room with blue hair’d grammas hoping to hit it big on the 16 card sheets in front of them, an electronic version will be rolled out to casino floors very soon. Where will they put all the trolls & charms.
Hopefully once the G2E contract is up, they will move out of the Sands and into either Mandalay or Caesars which is much more trade show friendly.
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Kiss front men: Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley cut the ribbon for G2E
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Playing the new Kiss Machines
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Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley at the WMS Kiss booth
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Bingo: It’s not just for Grandma
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Booth Bunz for Girls
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Booth Bunny Show girls for boys
“The Gama Trade show is all about “”minding the business of games”". The theme for GTS 2011 was “Times Are Changing”, and those gamesters witnessed a lot of changes at the show. This was the best retailer turnout for GTS since 2008, with 219 unique retail stores attend this year’s show, fifty percent up on the GTS 2010 attendance level. The sponsors were outfits like Bandai, Wizards of the Coast, Mayfair Games, Cryptozoic, Sandstorm, WizKids, AEG, Paizo, Konami, Osprey Publishing, GameScience, Alliance Game Distributors, ACD Distribution, Game Publishers Association, and ICv2, and they collectively pioneered a new Retailer Appreciation Package. See that little group over there, in pink gingham shirts and raggedy-ann straw hats? They’ve been playing Farmville non-stop for the whole duation of the show. Now, if I give you a cow, will you feed my chickens?
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This has in the past been one of the fastest-growing shows anywhere, implying security is a growing public and business concern. Hot topics: biometric i/d products, video surveillance, remote monitoring. A lot of hard-wired products are now looking at wireless technology instead. Better security!
Show is about information and IT for legal practices, law firms, legal departments. Microsoft among others touting cloud-computing solutions. Cost-saving was a focus generally. More general sessions than previous years. Keynotes by Mohamed El Baradei, former UN Atomic Energy Agency director-general, also Malcolm Gladwell, author of “The Tipping Point”. Big themes: eDiscovery, compliance, search and retrieval, cost-efficiency. It’s legal tech..no pictures please.
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