The Step Between Friends and Customers

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When it comes to social media, we have friends whom we know personally and we have customers who we can always count on to buy our products. But how does that jump from friends to customers happen? Declan Dunn presented “How To Turn Friends Into Fans And Customers” at BlogWorld 2010, and he made some … [Read more]

Audience versus Community: The Future of Web Television

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The Friday closing keynote at BlogWorld Expo 2010 covered the topic of web television. Where is it going? How can we get there and how did we get where we are now? How does out thinking about television need to change to monetize it for Internet users? The panelists, (Jim Louerback, Dick Glover, and Dermot … [Read more]

The Faces of BlogWorld Expo 2010

Video music by DoKashiteru and ditto ditto Thank you to everyone who participated. If you didn’t catch me to do a video in Vegas or reply to me via Twitter just leave a comment on this post to participate! Who are you and what is your site about? What did you enjoy most and what … [Read more]

Credit Where it’s Due: Thank You BlogWorld Track Leaders

Some of our BlogWorld Track leaders

There’s a misconception out in the blogosphere. Many of you are crediting me with solely providing all of BlogWorld’s educational content. While I did have a little something to do with it, mostly it was a team effort. Several of the bigger tracks or smaller community tracks were led by track leaders who helped to … [Read more]

BlogWorld 2010 Web Round-Up!

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BlogWorld 2010 has come to a close, but everyone is still in the midst of uploading blog posts, videos, images, podcasts, and more. I’m trying to aggregate that information in one spot (this post) – so feel free to post your own links in the comments section and I’ll add you. As a first-time attendee … [Read more]

5 Things Learned While Working at BlogWorld ’10

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So. BlogWorld ’10 is over, and the Monday morning quarterbacking is about to begin. Attendees and speakers are posting their thoughts and takeaways and you can be sure we’re going to read them all. It’s important to know what we did right and wrong, in order to bring you the best event and best content … [Read more]

Toonblog: Closing keynote

Toonblog of the closing keynote presentation

This was a tough one to diagram – at times because I was laughing so hard (Penn Jillette nailing Adam Carolla around the mike handoff was the high point of the night for me), at others because the material was flowing so quickly. But what resonated most – for me, at any rate – was … [Read more]

Cartoon: Swag!

(attendee with bags full of conference swag) This must be what they mean by the Internet of Things.

I have a suitcase full of yo-yos, inflatable airplanes, T-shirts, USB drives and much more to take home with me tomorrow. What was your favourite piece of conference swag?

Cartoon: In fairness, they do call it an Apple

Moderator to a panelist who has just taken a bite out of another panelist's laptop: Maybe next time, we won't schedule a food-blogging panel right before lunch.

Cartoon: It’s all relative

Mind watching my computer? I'm going to step out of the new media lounge and get some fresh air in the corridor.

The one thing that cheers me up about the fact that there’s only a little more than an hour left in BlogWorld is this: the prospect of seeing sunlight again. Hearing the chirping of birds, the wind whispering on my cheek, the cursing of a driver who just got cut off on the Strip. Aaah. … [Read more]