I have been invited to serve on a panel called: “What Does A Community Manager Do?”. I must talk about that or something?!!
But I need your help in voting for the panel. So if you could please click on this link: Vote for Connie! 

At the bottom - register, then click on the link [...]

continue reading.....

Wednesday evening I connected with many of my Twitter friends from MSP area. And the Social Media breakfast on Friday morning was an opportunity to connect with more! About 40 attended. And I met my good friend @rmsylte in person!
Garrick VanBuren started out with a presentation on Cullect.com - the most shareable feedreader. He created [...]

continue reading.....

That was the topic of the panel discussion last night hosted by the
Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association. It was fabulous to see over 250 people there!
The panel included representatives from Minnesota’s largest brands:

Jim Cuene, Director of Interactive, General Mills
Brad Smith, VP of eCommerce & Digital Marketing, Fingerhut Direct Marketing
Gary Koelling, Creative Director, Social Technology, [...]

continue reading.....

Will you be there? I’m really excited about making the jaunt down for the two events! I live closer to Canada than I do the Twin Cities, but that doesn’t affect my working remotely. I’ve gotten to know people from all over the world, but meeting in person has great value!
Because I’m a connector [...]

continue reading.....

Home office visits give me the opportunity to meet up with bloggers! My husband & I had dinner with Michael Allison & Dave Traynor. (Tris Hussey tweeted in sick). It was funny to hear Michael explain the connections. I met Tris in Seattle at the Web Comm Forum event. I had met Michael online thru [...]

continue reading.....

I attended it from my living room 300 miles away! And all thanks to @RickMahn for putting it live on UStream. It was totally fabulous! Many others joined us on the backchannel to listen in, possibly comment & enjoy the discussion.

It was a really great two hours & so much fun to see many people [...]

continue reading.....

It’s on Saturday morning at 9:30 am. And yes it’s in Singapore! Unfortunately I won’t make this one.
So why am I talking about it? Well, I have a group of social media friends in Singapore of course! And I introduce them to each other as I meet them. It’s my nature…
So upon request [...]

continue reading.....

Building community online is great. I’ve been doing it for awhile, but I have more experience with doing it in real life. For nine years I promoted public libraries & always enjoyed the aspects of outreach.
Early this week I was invited to talk about ACDSee software at the Winnipeg Camera Club. I met the person [...]

continue reading.....