ASJA Writers Conference - New York City
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Saturday afternoon panel on Using Blogs & Technology to Market Your Writing. Should be fun. More info
LOCATION: Grand Hyatt Hotel - 42nd and Grand Central Station
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MACPA Lunch & Learn - Webinar
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Private one-hour Webinar for MACPA, a client. We'll cover basic Web 2.0 tools including blogs, rss, wikis, podcasting and tagging. We'll also talk about Second Life. MACPA has a neat space in 2L - SLURL to get there. And visit MACPA's blog at CPASuccess.com.
DATE: Friday March 30, 2007
TIME: 12 noon - 1:00 PM EDT
The Conference Board’s 2007 Corporate Communication and Technology Conference
Posted in the Category of Speaking
Will be speaking both days at The Conference Board's 2007 Corporate Communication and Technology Conference.
DATE: Wednesday and Thursday April 18 - 19, 2007
LOCATION: Intercontinental The Barclay, New York City
TOPIC: Making effective use of Blogging, RSS, Wikis, Podcasting, and Webcasting
Still not atwitter over Twitter
Posted in the Category of In the News and Social Media
Watch this CBS interview with Robert Scoble (apparently filmed at his new office at Podtech.net in San Jose). It's the best explanation I've seen so far of what Twitter is and how it works. As always, Scoble is in his best self-deprecating form.
The video shows how Twitter is a mashup of blogging, text messaging, and Google Maps.
"It's stupid, lame and small... It's real addictive... Three weeks ago I had 90 (Twitter) followers. Today I have more than 2,000 followers."
- Robert Scoble in the CBS interview
I get that it's the haiku of blogging (only 140 characters)…
Bulldog Reporter’s Media Relations Summit - Washington DC
Posted in the Category of Speaking
I am speaking about corporate blogging on a panel with Christopher Barger (formerly with IBM, now heading up GM's blogging team) and Chris Halvorson, chief blogger for Stonyfield Farm. (Both are quoted extensively in The Corporate Blogging Book).
DATE: Monday, June 11, 2007
TIME: 4:30 - 5:30 PM
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC
Download the PDF brochure for the event.
Brilliant blogger Kathy Sierra gets death threats
Posted in the Category of In the News
As of this writing, there are 713 1,165 comments on Kathy Sierra's blog entry, the most I've ever seen on any blog post. I'm sure that number will be higher by the time you click through above.
It's every woman geek's worst nightmare: you step into the glare of the online spotlight via your blog, get heaps of recognition and kudos ... and then attract misogynist weirdos who say hateful, scary things.
Well, things have gone several steps further for Kathy Sierra, who blogs (brilliantly) at Creating Passionate Users, #68 on Technorati's list of Top…
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