More than 600 senior marketers, 42 speakers, and search and social titans from Google, Google+, Microsoft, Bing, Facebook, Salesforce, and Gap came together last week at the BrightEdge Share13 conference. The goal of Share13 was to connect like-minded marketers and brands and hear from "them" about the future of search and the rise of earned media. Clearly, content has become the catalyst that has driven a dramatic rise in the importance of earned media. The convergence of social, mobile, and search marketing techniques and technology has provided marketers with a huge spectrum of opportunity to shift the digital mindset to embrace change and manage their marketing campaigns more efficiently.