I love football. I have a favorite team, but I will never own them. I’m not the caveman sports fan. This allows me to love the sport as a whole and enjoy a good game no matter who is playing.
This year’s Super bowl Sunday which was also dubbed via the web as #brandbowl had the worst ads over all that I can remember. I base this on my own personal laugh out loud moments or WOW moments. To which I had only three total. Read the rest of this entry »
Community is something everyone in the social space is looking to build and, personally, I think that’s extremely hard. When clients approach me to work with them on building community and loyalty, I always tell them to be prepared – as it’s an exercise that requires patience, dedication and, most of all, engagement. There are some shining examples of folks who are doing a terrific job at community building – like my friends at The Roger Smith Hotel aka @RSHotel in New York City.
I got to know Adam J Wallace aka @adwal and Brian Simpson aka @Bsimi (private) on Twitter long before I knew anything about The Roger Smith Hotels. But, as our relationships developed, I began to pay more attention to what they were doing, how they were engaging and what kind of influence and loyalty they were building as a result of their genuine interest in and effort towards building community on behalf of the hotel. They work together to ensure that the social outreach for the hotel runs smoothly and are always coming up with new and innovative ideas, which makes them interesting, exciting and worthy of attention. Here’s an interview I did recently with @adwal that tells more about their philosophy: Read the rest of this entry »
**(In the video I said ProBlogger I meant CopyBlogger– All bloggers look the same to me!) No Twitter. No open laptops. No flash photos. No wifi. No PROBLEM. Respect is what the Audience Conference said yes to. The way in which this event was put on and handled has inspired me to want to put on my own event. I want to live life and conduct business with the least amount of bullshit possible. The audience conference gave me the feeling that you can be real and do business.
The Audience conference will not be televised. At some point video from the event may be released in a slow manner, but some moments in the conference is not meant for the masses. If you’re looking for a take away thought from the event it’s this: In short if you’re not being yourself and telling your story then you suck. To make money and be happy while doing it, you have to leverage what works for you and build off of that.
@jeffpulver thank you for giving a voice to so many different people.
In the coming days, the videos from the talks will be released. Make sure you follow @140conf. You should definitely look for the videos of these other speakers from the event: @cc_Chapman, @porterVA, @adwal & @Bsimi, and @drew. You should follow them as well. They are all amazing. I will be tweeting links to the talks that I thought had value as well.
The post could be spent talking about how many awesome people I meet and reconnected with @140conf. In the end is all about the connections. I love people. My flickr will have some bonus pics I left out! So friend me there!! Read the rest of this entry »
In short, the job @DevriesPR did at the #140conf in LA was awesome. For right now it looks like they cut down interviews and released snippets of them. These videos were going up through out the days of the event. Read the rest of this entry »
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