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 [...]

John Andrews, Walmart’s Senior Marketing Manager Emerging Media talks about meeting the Mommy Bloggers at BlogWorldExpo and some of the exhibitors that he found compelling.
His latest project for Walmart is the ElevenMoms campaign.  With a YouTube branded channel, Walmart has enlisted the help of Mommy Bloggers to kick off their campaign where 10 lucky winners [...]

One of the biggest highlights of BlogWorld Expo 2008 for us was the opportunity to meet Deb Ng. She’s been inspiring and educating us since we started our company. Tamara and I have really looked to her as sort of a freelancing mentor.
Recently, Deb took a step back from her wildly successful Freelance [...]

I admit it, my big blogging dream is to get a corporate sponsorship! Then I can say goodbye to “welfare for webmasters” (i.e., Google AdSense) and can stop obssessing about CPM rates. If you too are looking for a company to sponsor your blog, here is some advice from Geoff Nelson of BuzzCorps.com, whose marketing [...]

Erin Kotecki Vest was recently hired by BlogHer as their Political Director and Election 08’ Producer for BlogHer.com as well as contributing regularly to the Huffington Post, MOMocrats.com, and her own site Queen of Spain Blog.
In this interview I ask Erin about her new BlogHer gig, her coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions, her [...]

Jennifer Openshaw of WeSeed.com sat down with me to talk about WeSeed.com.  Those who are interested in investing and want to learn in a virtual, risk-free environment should definitely check this site out.  This investment platform let’s you explore investment options based on your passions and interests.  As everyday people, Wall Street didn’t invite us [...]

We caught up with Tony Hseih and his Zappos team here at BlogWord Expo 2008.
Tony is the master of using Twitter to communicate with his customers at Zappos.
Listen to how Tony and his team uses Social Media to connect with their customers.

Do you wish you could be here at BlogWorld Expo ‘08 but for one reason or another couldn’t make it?  Besides being able to find out what’s happening at BWE here through the Sparkplugging.com’s team of writers, you can also win something cool. Since Epson sponsored our trip to BWE, they are giving us the [...]

Richard Jalichandra & Technorati are about to release their annual State of the Blogosphere Report for 2008. It is a fascinating roundup of statistics around the ever-changing blogosphere, and worthy of noting this year is the blurring line between mainstream media and blogs.
He opened his presentation giving the audience a foundational overview of how social [...]