BlogWorld: It’s the New Media industry event of the year — and now it’s TWICE a year!

That’s right: BlogWorld & New Media Expo will host its first east coast event at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City this May 24 – 26! Touted as “BlogWorld 2011 East“ to differentiate itself from its west coast counterpart, which dates back to 2007 and has been held in Las Vegas every year since, the New York City event will be co-located this year with Book Expo America.

(And if you’re a plan-ahead type, mark your calendars now for BlogWorld West 2011, to be held for the first time in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Convention Center this November 3 – 5 2011.) But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here…

Now for the BIGGER news (as far as we’re concerned)…

BLASTmedia is pleased to announce we’ll be at BlogWorld & New Media Expo East NYC this year “gettin’ our Tube on”! (As in YouTube — we don’t wear tube tops here at BLASTmedia.)

Yesterday, New Media expert and author, Paul Colligan, announced the speakers who will be presenting as part of BlogWorld East’s Digital Broadcasting Track. As BlogWorld’s Digital Track leader, Paul has put together an incredible lineup of New and Social Media content creation experts, including (drum roll please):

BLASTmedia’s own social media director and YouTube marketing expert, Julie Perry!

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As Paul mentions in the video above, Julie will be speaking on the subject of YouTube. But unlike last year’s BlogWorld 2010, where Julie spoke on a panel about YouTube, this year she’ll be taking the stage solo to present her “17 Killer YouTube Tactics for Targeted Traffic Generation and YouTube Search Optimization.” (And actually, we know she’s got more like 117 — but we won’t let her give ALL her secrets away.)

Along with Julie, this year’s BlogWorld East Digital Media Track will include some big names.

Among some of the highlights Paul mentions above:

• Amy Porterfield, contributor to Social Media Examiner and E-marketing Vids, as well as the co-author of Facebook Marketing All-in-One For Dummies (and a great friend of BLASTmedia!), will be presenting on a panel about building an online audience. Amy will have a solo presentation as well.
• Some of the crew from MyDamnChannel will be talking about, as Paul puts it, “building a damn network.”
• We are also promised a “very special presentation” from the crew at “Funny or Die.” (No doubt that will be hilarious.)
• Attendees can look forward to an advertising panel discussing, “How to make real money from this real business.” Among the presenters there will be David Prager from Revision3 (holla!).
• Rocketboom creator and CEO, Andrew Baron, will be chatting about memes and the success of the “Know Your Meme” project (we’re big fans!), and how well that’s been doing online.
• Rob from Libsyn will host an Apps panel talking about where the App economy is going and what that has to do with digital media.

Not too shabby of an event preview, we thinks!

Meanwhile, outside the world of digital and broadcast media, anyone in the business of blogging, social media or online business should plan on attending event. Other notable speakers who will be on hand to impart their vast wealth of knowledge in this space:

• Gary Vaynerchuk, Co-Owner and Video Blogger for Wine Library TV and author of The Thank You Economy
• Chris Brogan, President of New Marketing Labs and author of Trust Agents
• Lucretia Pruitt (formerly @GeekMommy) of The Social Joint
• Jason Falls, Social Media Strategist and head honcho over at Social Media Explorer
• Jay Baer, Founder of Convince & Convert and author of one of our new favorite books, The NOW Revolution

…and many more!

So don’t miss it. Act now to register and attend BlogWorld & New Media Expo East — the first and only industry-wide conference, trade show and media event for New Media — coming up May 24-26 in New York City.