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It all started with Bryan Eisenberg, a Web analytics and ROI expert, who regularly writes on ClickZ and is a co-author of Call To Action, Waiting For Your Cat To Bark? and Always Be Testing. He decided to initiate a free online conference: OnClick: The Online Marketing Virtual Conference Mashup.

The idea inspired Mitch Joel, President of Twist Image and one of the brightest mind in Digital Marketing and Social Media, to create Pixelated, “a free full-day online conference with some of the world’s leading speakers on the topic of how business is changing including: Sir Ken Robinson, Seth Godin, Chris Anderson, Avinash Kaushik, Chris Brogan and many more.” It’s also free and you can still access it here.

Chris Brogan, whose blog on Community and Social Media, is THE reference on the Web, was very excited by all this, and he delivered on his promises to “steal the idea” from Bryan Eisenberg and Mitch Joel. He created Pixelated – The Online Conference About PLAY. Free of course.

It was great fun to witness on Twitter the snowball effect of one idea. Most of all, really amazing initiatives that also show the generous heart of these 3 brilliant minds.

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The Pixelated Conferences

OnClick: The Online Marketing Virtual Conference Mashup / Bryan Eisenberg
Pixelated / Mitch Joel
Pixelated – The Online Conference About PLAY / Chris Brogan

Update – more Pixelated Conferences - thanks to Chris Brogan’s tweets

Pixelated Conference Series – Productivity
Pixelated BarCamp
Pixelated Conference – Creativity, Inspiration, Productivity and Success
Pixelated PodCamp 
Pixelated – A Virtual Book Conference
PROOF POSITIVE, a pixelated un-conference
Pixelated: Sui Generis conference