2012: the year the dots got joined

2012 promises to be the year that everything gets connected. Mobile devices have not made everything mobile, but rather have made the internet portable and personal. And this means that suddenly everyone is connected to everything, offering all manner of opportunities across all facets of the consumer world for telemedia companies.

While this move towards a connected world has been evolving slowly, 2012 is going to be the pivotal year when this interconnectedness takes the online world to new levels.

So, for starters we are changing our strap line to Connecting Consumers to Content, Media and Entertainment. While many may see this as just a cosmetic change, it really reflects the role that telemedia plays in the digital world. While it centres around payments and content delivery, what you chaps have is the ability to monetise this interconnected world and help both consumers and content providers create services.

So how will this new ethos be reflected in what we do? Our media products – this weekly newsletter, our monthly e-zine, our magazine, blog, TV channel etc – will be available across platforms and will continue to cover all that is happening out there in connected world and what opportunities there are and who is exploiting them.

On the events side we are revamping and extending what we do to connect the telemedia industry with the key vertical markets that need your help and input. Kicking off on 25 and 26 April in London we have the second outing of the  mGambling and mSports Summits and a new event focussed on the opportunities for mobile and telemedia around sports.

This two dayer will be followed on 15 and 16 May, again in London, by the Connected Media, Entertainment & Commerce Summit, which will bring together the key elements of previous T360 elements to put media companies, broadcasters, publishers, web companies, events companies, and other commercial entities in front of the telemedia industry to create new services and new deals.

These UK-based events will be followed up on 17 to 19 October with the International World Telemedia Event in Marbella, where the industry can deal with its own issues and network amongst itself – hopefully in some late summer sunshine.

Details will be live online soon, and we will push out the URLs when the sites have been polished and tweaked following their Christmas break and we will of course make sure you are the first to know as the details take shape.

This panopoly of events reflects how what we are now dealing with is a connected world of entertainment and services – both on screens, in papers and at live events – and promises to be an educational rollercoaster ride of a year. To get involved drop me an email paulskeldon@me.com and for sales information contact jarvis@telemedia-news.com and we look forward to seeing you throughout 2012.