I feel like I should put a note here, explain life a bit & apologize for not providing as much content here as I should be for you. I do have news for you. My sister has been building a new platform for me. I’m tired of the red. People have been tired of the red photo for awhile. My new color is on Twitter. :) Thanks to all of the nice comments about it.
Do you recognize these guys? Some people said this was their favorite photo of the ones I posted from BlogWorld Expo.
It’s a classic – Darren Rowse (ProBlogger) interviewing Chris Brogan with a flip phone. They are power bloggers, power networkers & uberly great guys.
Successful networking is a great thing, but it should come with a warning! I’ve bemoaned this fact to Darren a couple of times. He laughed… :)
So I’m sharing this with all of you. Creating a network is a wonderfully awesome thing! I love interacting with all of you! But it has challenged my whole perspective of time & resource management. Add to that my "Chris Brogan traits’ of wanting to help everyone has put my inbox in an interesting situation. All of that coupled with my addiction to work & contributing professionally has caused me to deal with what I need to & unfortunately my blogging suffers.
I am a person of action though. Here we go.. people say by posting it publicly it makes you more accountable. I appreciate your patience as I make another transition to a new level of functioning with a network of 2 k on Twitter & 1 k on Facebook. You guys all rock & you’re important to me!
- blogging here – I am really going to try to get my blogging back on a regular basis even if it means posting quick thoughts. If you’d like to guest post, I totally welcome it!
- DM’s, email & FB message – if you contact me & don’t hear within 2-3 days; ping me again please
At the end of October I will be speaking in San Francisco & Denver & taking a couple days off to enjoy my first visit to San Francisco. If you’d like to meet in San Fran, let me know! And I’ll be in Denver from Nov 2-5. Same thing there – let’s get together.
Here are links to the conferences, there is still time to register!
Social Media Strategies – Oct 29, 30 San Francisco – discount price here
Defrag 2008 – The discount coupon code for this conference is "foc1" (friend of connie 1) for a discount of $300.
Connie:
I don’t think you need to apologize — but I do feel your pain. I find blogging on a consistent to be a challenge as well, particularly when things get extra busy at work.
The best that I can offer is this advice:
1) Create an editorial schedule that can guide your efforts
2) When there are slow times, write a couple of extra evergreen variety and keep them on the side for a while. When you get busy again, bust out one of the posts you’ve been holding. Your readers will never know!
3) Mix it up — pithy posts are good, too!
Now, time for me to go and follow my own advice :)
Bryan Person |@BryanPerson
LiveWorld social media evangelist
I’ll be at Social Media Strategies in SF, too. Looking forward to meeting you in person.
Connie: no need to apologize! Just rock your conference(s) and we’ll all be here when you get back!
Maybe you can share some key take-aways in a short post or two for those of us who couldn’t make it to the conference?