Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to the panel at South by Southwest about selling brands and companies on the idea of engaging via social media. To me, it’s difficult to believe that companies still need to be convinced that this is a viable medium, yet there is a true language barrier between advertisers [...]

Far more often than I’d like to admit, I realize that I only have a few business cards left in my wallet and I have an out of town conference scheduled in 5 days.  Yes, I could pay overnight printing costs and overnight shipping costs, but I usually take a pass on these fees and [...]

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 [...]

Kim Dushinski has been a good online friend of mine for a long time – it was really great to finally meet her at BlogWorld. I had to sit her down and chat about her BlogWorld experience. I loved her comments on the Sunday morning Keynote with Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park, Tim Ferriss of [...]

Patrick O’Keefe put together a great panel at BlogWorld on Avoiding Disaster: How Not to Use Social Media. He was awfully kind to give some credit for the panel idea to me as he said it was inspired by my post 10 Social Media Blunders that Can Destroy Your Brand. Patrick had Jason Falls, Darren [...]

I ate a good amount of crow this weekend while I was speaking with Ted Murphy from Izea. I had pretty much dismissed them based on the first impressions I had from their PayPerPost days. I had no idea how much they have changed since then.
Here’s a quick interview about what Izea has done to [...]

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 [...]

John Chow from JohnChow.com would have been a great person to contribute to my ‘How to Sell Direct Advertising‘ panel at BlogWorld. Since our panel was full, I grabbed him for a quick interview before our session. He gives some great tips about a great ad management system for WordPress blogs that I hadn’t heard [...]

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 [...]