Blogger Social has been Moved!

Breaking News! It’s late notice, and hopefully no-one will be inconvenienced, but…the upcoming Blogger Social this weekend has had to be moved, to Dumfries, Iowa.
Mayor Bloomberg of NYC has called an emergency meeting of the New York State Ethics committee to investigate the past lifestyle choices of every single legislator in the state and city, [...]

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Are You Conversating??

A year or so ago, I contributed to a group-authored book (with 102 others!) called Age of Conversation. It’s all about social media and the new marketing – full of fascinating gems and insights. Learn more here.
Cheapskate that I am, I bought the e-book version. But today I finally broke down and bought the REAL [...]

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“Hillary, you’ve got a problem!”

On rare occasions, I’ll comment on political matters – typically, not to make a political statement, but to note how certain events have a “branding” twist to them.
Brand Hillary just lost the moon.
The juxtaposition of her fantasy-like description of dodging sniper bullets with the pictures and descriptions of the reality of the event have put, [...]

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Blogger Socialites – the Hand-held Version

Really, folks, how many events do you go to where you get, not one, not two…but THREE attendee guides?
You already know about the “official” bios put together by Arun and his team. But now, in quite an extensive labor of love, Jennifer Berk has assembled the entire Blogger Socialite series of profiles…and in 2 formats, [...]

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Photoshop Express – Ho-hum

I saw a press release about the new (free) web-based photo-editing service being made available by Adobe – Photoshop Express.
I do a fair amount of low-level image editing for my blogging efforts, so decided to sign up and give it a test drive.
Yawwwwnnn.
Very thin feature set. Not particularly intuitive. The tools are few and rudimentary. [...]

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Sociable Bloggers

When you hear the word “blogger,” what comes to mind? Some geeky, reserved person hunched over a computer, anonymously tossing out fatuous opinions for no-one to read?
Not! At least, not the marketing-type bloggers I virtually hang with.
In fact, 80+ of them are coming from around the world (literally) to socialize face-to-face at the upcoming Blogger [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Weinberg, Whittemore, Wilkins, Woodruff

I can’t believe it! We finally got through the whole list of attendees for the upcoming Blogger Social in NYC – this is the last batch of profiles!
The “master post” with the entire list of links for these profiles can be found here. Also, Arun Rajagopal (and supporting cast) has put together the “official” set [...]

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Iowa Bloggers – Boast away!

Forbes magazine just praised Des Moines as one of the Best Places for Business.
Makes New Jersey sound downright…well, New Jersey-ish! Any room out there in the Midwest??

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Bud Light and Sausages

Disclaimer: I don’t care for Bud Light, or any light beer for that matter. I don’t drink any Bud products in fact – I’m a microbrew kinda guy, with a preference for stouts, porters, hearty ales – and lagers with at least a little bit of attitude.
That said, I do admire the creativity that goes [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Vellandi, Verdino, Vineberg, Wall

We’re down to our final couple of batches of Blogger Socialite profiles! Those of us cursed with “end-of-the-alphabet” names are used to being last, of course (hey – I’m totally last on this list!) but some would reassure us that we are therefore the best…
I dunno – I really would have preferred to be [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Sponder, Starbucker, Thomas, Toad

Once again, blogging comrade-in-arms (and fellow North Jersey resident) CB Whittemore has come through with some introductory profiles for our fellow Blogger Social registrants (if you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting CB yet, be sure you find her at the Social – she’s an absolute delight!).
Everyone in this group hails from right outside of [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Sansone, Sherman, Snell, Soldera

A shout-out of thanks to Kristin Gorski, who once again came through with a batch of profiles for our Blogger Social registrants. We’re closing in on the two-week countdown now!
Mike Sansone
Mike Sansone is a “Conversation Conductor” who specializes in helping businesses incorporate blogging into their marketing mix. He is also a community builder online and [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Reynolds, Richmond, Rittereiser, Roesler, Rosen, Rosenberg

When 80 Marketing bloggers get together in NYC for the first Blogger Social , you know it’s going to be a lively time. Because the attendees are one lively bunch! This group of BS’08 profiles was prepared with the assistance of Mario Vellandi, his second batch- thanks, Mario!
Susan Reynolds
You know you’re in for a treat [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Quigley, Rajagopal, Reece, Reich

The Blogger Social is less than three weeks away! This batch of BS’08 profiles comes courtesy of blogging comrade Mario Vellandi, whom I’m looking forward to finally meeting after so many e-mails and blog comment exchanges. Thanks, Mario!
Jane Quigley
Jane is a Senior Director at Zeta Interactive in New York, who’s been active in this trade [...]

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Twitter Day One

Okay, I finally did it. I Twittered. Decided to find out what all the fuss was about.
Why did I wait so long? Frankly, because I just couldn’t see the purpose. I could not envision the business application.
Nonetheless, all the cool bloggers were tweeting, so it was time to jump in. And, unexpectedly, I found something [...]

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Social Media and RO__why?

A thought-provoking post by Debbie Weil on the ROI of Social Media had the effect of…well, provoking some thought.
I’ve always had a hate-like relationship with ROI and its many first and second cousins (ROE, ROC, ROwhatever). The concept is sound at a certain level – if we invest (x), what will be our Return on [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Perea, Polinchock, Pratt

This set of Blogger Social registrant profiles comes to us courtesy of Jennifer Berk, one of those who will be joining us in early April for a humdinger of a blogger get-together. Thanks, Jennifer!
Rita Perea
Rita recently described how she started blogging, a conversion since she originally “just could not ’see’ the power of using [...]

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Eliot Spitzer: A Tarnished Man, A Tarnished Brand

[3/12 update: Spitzer has just resigned. Some further thoughts on my Impactiviti blog: Flawed or Fraud?]
The news is just breaking this afternoon – Eliot Spitzer, controversial Democratic governor of New York, has apparently been linked to a ring providing prostitution services.
Spitzer is hardly the first politician to be caught (as of this writing, allegedly caught) [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Laycock, Lee, Livingston, Magno, Maltoni

OK, so this group of Blogger Social registrants got done out of sequence. But it’s only because we were running short of superlatives, and had to search high and low for new and creative ways to brag about our blogging colleagues (does that sound good, Valeria??). Many thanks to Kristin Gorski for writing up this [...]

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Thank God for Antonin Dvorak!

I mean it. Sincerely, and without using God’s name in vain.
I thank God for Dvorak, Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and many other composers and musicians (not all of them classical, by any means!) whose productions fill my ears with beauty and my heart with joy.
Last week was rough. An uninvited intestinal bug raged through the entire [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Meacham, Miracle, Monty, Ohrt

We’re past the 50-yard line now profiling the registrants for the upcoming Blogger Social (April 4-6, NYC), and one thing is clear – we’re going to have a smashingly interesting crew of folks to get to know at this great event! I envision a lot of temporarily “silent” blogs, replaced by some amazing sore [...]

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Blogger McSocialites: McCarthy, McDonald, McEnany, McHale, McLellan

We’ve come a long way profiling the registrants for the upcoming Blogger Social (April 4-6, NYC). And sure, we know that this group is just slightly out of alphabetical order, but the L’s and early M’s are coming soon…promise. This series of profiles was contributed by wonderful blogging colleague C.B. Whittemore.
Caroline McCarthy

Caroline McCarthy [not to [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Jaffe, Karpeles, Kerley, Kieff, Kutchera

Continuing on with our series of posts profiling the registrants for the upcoming Blogger Social (April 4-6, NYC), we now reach the J’s and K’s, including one of the illustrious bloggers (CK) helping mastermind this whole get-together.
Joseph Jaffe
Joseph heads up the blog Jaffe Juice, which he describes this way: Welcome to the reincarnated and reinvigorated [...]

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Blogger Socialites: Habeshian, Handley, Heaton, Hoet, Horne, Howard

Today, we get to hear from a new contributor (Ryan Karpeles) to this series of posts on the Blogger Socialites. Ryan is one of several who have kindly consented to write up profiles with me. Today, the “H” group – I wrote the first one, Ryan wrote the other four. Thanks, Ryan!
Vahe Habeshian
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Blogger Social 30-Day Countdown!

Why should you be looking forward, with great anticipation, to the upcoming Blogger Social in NYC (April 4-6)?

Where else can you get a hug from “blogging beauties” such as Ann Handley and Christina Kerley (CK)?

Where else will you see Toby Bloomberg thoroughly intimidate David Reich?

Where else will you get glorious views of the back of [...]

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