I recently had the pleasure of spending a good chunk of time with Sparkplugging’s eCommerce writer and On-line Biz Consulting’s, Kristie McDonald at BlogWorld 08. Not only is Kristie a delightful member of our SparkPlugging team, but Wow - what a wealth of internet marketing brilliance!

Meeting the other Sparkplugging authors was a great experience. Great [...]

If you want some solid on-line marketing advice, watch this video featuring Shama Hyder’s panel presentation at BlogWorld. Naturally, there were a number of outstanding speakers at the expo, but I really enjoyed Shama’s no-nonsense approach to marketing your blog. Shama has the 1-2-3’s down and presents her information in a straight-forward, logical approach. Shama [...]

Here are some highlights from the Twitter panel discussion at BlogWorld. Interesting stuff - especially to a  Twitter newbie like me . . . It did convince me to start using Twitter more! Follow me @KristieMcDonald
We heard from Twitter experts Stowe Boyd/@stoweboyd, Laura Fitton/@pistachio, Tony Hsieh/@zappos, Lucretia Pruitt/@geekmommy and Erin Kotecki [...]

I’m usually much better about getting my photos up after a conference. It just seemed like there was an awful lot of recovering that had to happen this week!
Go & check out our BlogWorld photos on Flickr. If you have photos on Flickr (or anywhere else) from BlogWorld08, please leave a link to them [...]

Panel: Rohit Bhargava, Timothy Ferriss & Mike Shinoda
Some shorthand notes:
Mike Shinoda (of Linkin Park):
Know how Linkin Park got their name? It involves a park in LA and changing the name to get the “dot com” for their website.
Tim Ferriss (author of The 4 Hour Work Week):
He wrote his book first, and used the blog to [...]

Of the soon to launch deal-a-day site for moms, Daily Grommet.  If you’re familiar with Woot.com, then you’ll totally get what Daily Grommet is all about.  The founders of Daily Grommet choose one item every day from an up and coming business and tell a story about it.  Moms will enjoy finding out about products [...]

A little over two years ago, I heard a recording of a guy talking about how to start a small business blog.  It sounded interesting, and a couple weeks later I started my first blog, “Organize.Simplify.Transform”.  That guy was Rich Brooks, and I had a chance to catch up with him at BlogWorld this year.  [...]

Business Coaching and Blogging Evangelist, Des Walsh agrees that making the time to blog is burdensome for some business owners. In this video he suggests reframing the problem to find the solution. Blogging can offer substantial increases in business if you see it as an investment of time. Des also offers advice for the weary [...]

It was my first time at the BlogWorldExpo and I learned all sorts of new things. But I was very curious what Erin Kotecki Vest, a veteran blogger and journalist, was learning this year at the conference, since compared to me she knows everything! (Erin Kotecki Vest is the Political Director and Election 08 [...]

Shama Hyder gave a terrific presentation at BlogWorld Exp 2008 on Facebook. Not only did she give us a ton of tips on how to use Facebook, she invited a couple of guest speakers, including Mari Smith, up to share their expertise as well.
Some of my takeaways were:
1. Be yourself and build relationships, but [...]