While I was fortunate enough to attend the Inbound Marketing Summit in Boston a year ago, I wasn’t able to attend this social media extravaganza here this time around…

…but I can tell you for a fact that it was the best conference I never attended.

Yes, thanks to the live, exhaustive coverage of this two-day event by a slew of those in attendance via Twitter and many timely reports filed on other social media platforms (blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, etc.), I don’t feel like I missed much of anything.

Okay, so I didn’t get the opportunity to network with my colleagues face-to-face, shake their hands and exchange business cards, but I definitely got the gist of pretty much all the presentations in snippets and headlines, video clips and sound bites.

Starting with Chris Brogan, Justin Levy and the team behind the IMS, the hundreds of social media makers who flocked to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on October 7 and 8 should be proud of themselves. In sharing so much quality content about the show, so extemporaneously and generously, they were practicing what they preach, propagating their messages and reaching the broadest possible audience.  

This is what every conference should want, what every brand (corporate or personal) should hope to achieve. After all, you really can’t complain when your constituents are getting the word out for you, when almost anything you say or do is documented so positively on the web. But that’s what happens when social media is working at its best. And that’s what happened at the Inbound Marketing Summit Boston (’09). So congratulations to all involved.

With that said, in the spirit of social media, what follows are a number of links (in no particular order, by the way) to some of the content (tweets, blog posts, photos and videos) I discovered – via social media – about the Inbound Marketing Summit Boston (’09) either during or after the show. Enjoy…

SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT ABOUT THE INBOUND MARKETING SUMMIT BOSTON (’09)

Twitter

Twitter Stream of Tweets (#ims09)

Blogs

From Jeff Esposito’s Blog: “Inbound Marketing Summit Boston”

From Rachel Levy’s Social Networking & Job Search Blog: “Inbound Marketing Summit Recap”

From Percussion’s Contentions Blog: “Does the venue make the event? Socializing at IMS 09″

From Edvisors Online Education Blog: “Edvisors CMO at Inbound Marketing Summit”

From Steve Garfield’s Off on a Tangent Blog: “A Revolution in Video”

From Dialogue’s Blog: “Inbound Marketing Summit Recap- Day 1- Favorite Quotes?”

From Deirdre Breakenridge’s PR 2.0 Strategies Blog: “PR 2.0 Panel at #IMS09″

From Sarah Hamilton’s Word Up on Marketing Blog: “Key Takeaways from Inbound Marketing Summit 2009 – Day 1″ and “IMS 2009 Day 2: New Lingo and General Awesomeness”

From Nichole Kelly’s Innovative Marketing Blog: “IMS09 Takeaways”

From Valeria Maltoni’s ConversationAgent Blog: “12 Things I Learned at the Inbound Marketing Summit”

From HubSpot’s Inbound Internet Marketing Blog: “Is PR Dead?”

From Radiating Influence: “Inbound Marketing Summit 2009 – Day Two”

Photos

C.C. Chapman Photos on Flickr

Derek Wilmot Photos on Flickr

Amanda O’Brien Photos on Flickr

LevelTen Interactive Photos on Flickr

Videos

Nathaniel Riggs Interview of A.J. Gerritson of 451 Marketing

Jesse Engle Interview of Jenny Cisney of @KodakConnect

Jason Peck’s “Nice Meeting You Gary”

Jason Peck’s “Nice to Meet You Brian”

Jesse Engle talks with Rebecca Corliss on how @HubSpot uses CoTweet 

Daniel Lynton’s Talk Inbound Marketing in my Jetta

SuziKCraig’s 1 Question 1 Minute Interviews with IMS09 with Speakers, Panelists and Attendees

Christine Green’s film of Steve Garfield’s invitation to create a video…

CoTweet Blog’s Inbound Marketing Summit 2009 Video Roundup

P.S. If you have any links to content related to the Inbound Marketing Summit Boston (’09) to add to the list above, please don’t hesitate to do so in a comment. I would be delighted to see this post become a “living document” that could be used as a resource by those who attended — or are just interested in learning more about – the Inbound Marketing Summit Boston (’09). Thanks.