Shama Hyder invited Mari Smith to chime in on her wonderful FaceBook presentation at Blog World. In this video, Mari talks about making friends with key, influential people on FaceBook. An info-packed 5 minutes from BlogWorld 08.Thanks Mari!

As freelance writers, we have devoted a whole lot of our time to writing SEO articles. It was fun to meet an actual SEO organization in the flesh while at BlogWorld. The thing that we liked about this SEO Champion was their focus on “organic” optimization. We are big fans of writing [...]

Unfortunately, Tamara and I are not so tech-savvy when it comes to things like…um…tech. So, we’re really grateful for the help of people who are able to set up and design blogs and web sites. If it wasn’t for them, the two of us would probably be painting on cave walls or something.
Unique [...]

I recently took Susan’s press release writing class at SparkplugU, and she had some great things to say about PR Web. As you can imagine, I was pretty excited to see them at BlogWorld. Basically, their service helps you get your press releases into the hands of the right media outlets. I [...]

I asked Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, at the end of our interview on how to use social media to promote your eCommerce business the following question - “If you had it to do all over again, what would you do different?”
His answer might surprise you!

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.  [...]