Published in May 1st, 2008
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 [...]
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Published in April 11th, 2008
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 [...]
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Published in April 6th, 2008
Listening is an integral part of monitoring the conversations. As a community manager I’m not only actively listening but also noticing how other companies are listening & participating. It’s exciting to to see more corporations using Twitter! How do I know that they are? Well, upon mention of a product or company within minutes the [...]
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Published in March 27th, 2008
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 [...]
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Published in March 13th, 2008
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 [...]
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Published in December 17th, 2007
Mack Collier asked if I was going to post my presentation from the Web Community Forum. Is it ironic that I met Mack in a group in Facebook? And later I learned that he has a smashing marketing blog called The Viral Garden.
It was a panel so we didn’t have a formal presentation. Instead we [...]
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Published in December 8th, 2007
Teresa Valdez Klein, Steve Broback, Jason Preston & Kim of Parnassus put on a great conference. It was wonderful to meet so many bloggers & Facebook aficionados!
Tris Hussey was live blogging & provided great commentary on the following sessions:
Jeremiah’s Keynote was excellent. He put his slides up on his blog.
Mari Smith also provided comprehensive coverage [...]
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Published in December 8th, 2007
That was the topic of my first presentation as a Community Manager/Social Media geek at Web Community Forum 07 in Seattle. It was also my first opportunity to meet bloggers in person. (more on that to come).
Tris Hussey of BlogNation did some great live blogging. He covered our session on Facebook Groups. Jake McKee & [...]
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Published in December 2nd, 2007
Blog commenting is probably one of the easier things to accomplish when I’m traveling. I’m using Jeremiah Owyang’s tip of having blog ideas created in advance.
In my first post I listed my methodology for starting or rebuilding a blog. I’ve used it twice. There’s an aspect that’s more important than that & it bears repeating:
“It’s [...]
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Published in November 26th, 2007
Like that question has never been answered before! So why am I addressing it? Well, someone asked my opinion & after coming up with 5 steps & prioritizing them I thought the process should be shared.
Here is my advice for starting a blog along with some resources to get you started.
1. Branding
Who are you & [...]
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