I had to laugh and do it. I’m listening to Robert Scoble and Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble give a presentation on ‘10 ways to a killer blog’, and he joked that someone should add sex in a title. Well why not?
We’ll drop down to his 15th bullet point on killer blogs. Keep your integrity.
There has to be a lot said about personality, ethics, morality… and being true to yourself. I am a light-hearted person, always seeing a bright side to things, and often I have many deep thoughts that earn me the title of ‘devil’s advocate’.
I often think about the various blogs that I don’t market or filter into results. One of my personal sites is www.trueloveofcoffee.com. It has hundreds of crazy and sometimes wonderful poems I’ve written in the past two years. I have a lot of readers browse through it, but I rarely combine my daily work life with my creative writing life. Sometimes being artistic is fun and inspiring, sometimes it makes me ponder why my brain doesn’t have a built-in edit button.
Technorati tags: BBS06, Blog Business Summit
Over the years, my personal ‘theme’ has evolved around two primary phrases- “Changing Reality” and “Technical Disaster”. Both are tongue-in-cheek outlooks at where the world is today, and where we can go. Technology (not just on the web) is evolving so quickly on a basic level there are amazing new avenues to travel down. That leads me to today’s topic- the Blog Business Summit. The fundamental feeling here at the summit is peeking into the future, not only asking “where are we going?” but also “where do we want to go?”
After dealing with all levels of clients in businesses ranging from small one person operations to the Fortune 50, I very rarely run across an interest in these questions that is truly taken to heart. Right now I’m listening to Jeremy Pepper (PoP PR), Jeanette Gibson- (Corporate Communitcations – Cisco), and John Starkweather, (Group Product Manager Microsoft). Along with the other attendees of the summit, these individuals are helping to cultivate where we want to go.
By the time the summit is over, I’m hoping to have some new creative brainstorms on where I want to go too.
Well here I am. Experiencing the pitfalls of blogging, while listening to a presentation on the pitfalls of blogging.
There has to be some sweet irony in that.
Overall the crowd here is very intuitive and enlightening to be around. There are a lot of good ideas that range a variety of industries, ranging from spiritual enlightenment to streaming music video (one could argue that those two things are the same for some folk). In all, the range of presenters I’ve seen have a very point-forward and encouraging stage presentation. They hit the important points of blogging, and touch some of the more whimsical issues facing companies that are looking to blog.
My viewpoint on the issue- all companies should have someone here. Blogging has emerged as a dominant marketing tool that focuses on an area few other marketing tools have… community. It is strange to think that the through the 90’s, the internet stripped away a lot of personal contact with the way business is done. Blogging however, takes the online marketing of the 90’s and brings a human element back into the equation. The interaction leads to a conversation, the conversation leads to community.
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It is a simple web based piece of software that is free to use and allows you to track and share your thought pattern. You may find that being able to graphically demonstrate your thoughts, the ability to save them, and to share them… is a great tool.
Moving in the direction of my passion. I’ve joined the team of BloggingSystems.com, working with my blogging colleagues Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney. I’ll be working with a great team of like-minded individuals on projects that are very close to my personal visions… and I’ll have a chance to make some amazing changes to different industries.
