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Speaking Submissions Deadline Came and Went - Now The Hard Part - Choosing

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  • Posted on June 9th, 2009 by User ImageJim

Now the real work for me begins.  I am getting inundated with questions from everyone that has submitted speaking submissions as to whether their submission was chosen.  To be frank, I am not done reading the more than, enter large number here, submissions that were submitted and I have yet to complete the tracks that [...]

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Has Blogging Jumped the Shark?

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  • Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Deb Ng

I live to blog. If I’m not blogging, I’m forming posts in my head. Everything is an idea. I suppose you can call me an old school blogger, but I’m not close minded. I like to consider new ideas and technologies, even if I don’t always get them. That’s why I was kind of taken [...]

Community Isn’t Only Online

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  • Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Deb Ng

One of the reasons I enjoy attending blog and social media conferences so much is because I love meeting with the folks I interact with online. I’ll even go as far as to say I use my online communities only as a tool for making personal connections. I think a mistake many folks make is [...]

Bloggers Blog Because. . . Well, Because!

Why in the world would someone like me want to go to Blog World Expo, or any other blogging conference?  Would would someone like me NEED to go?
Aren’t bloggers twenty and thirty-somethings?  Don’t they write about diapers and projectile vomit and daycare and breastfeeding at the workplace?  Bloggers are also techies, right?  Bloggers are always [...]

The Pricelessness of Blogging

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  • Posted on March 25th, 2009 by User ImageJane Goodwin

I live out in the country, several miles from the nearest small town.  I know only one other adult who blogs, living in this area.  We met and became friends because of our blogs.  We have little in common besides our passion for blogging, but a passion for blogging is a big enough passion to [...]

Blog World Expo Radio - Episode 1 From SXSW in Austin Texas

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  • Posted on March 20th, 2009 by User ImageJim

Our show comes to you live from last Saturday at SXSW Interactive at the Techset Blogger Lounge presented by Windows Mobile.
Our guests on this show live from SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas:
Ewan Spence and his Twitter is @ewanspence
Wendy Piersall and her Twitter is @emom
Justin Levy and his Twitter is @justinlevy
Patti Serrano a caller and her [...]

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Meeting Doc Searls At BlogWorld

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  • Posted on October 6th, 2008 by User ImageRick

One of the real honors for me at this year’s BlogWorld was getting to meet and speak with legendary blogger Doc Searls.
For those of you who don’t know who Doc is, the bio on his blog is a good place to start. Among his many accomplishments Doc has been blogging since 1999 and was [...]

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Blogworld Speaker Interviews: Patrick O’Keefe

Yeah, I know, I’m a bit late with this one. Somehow Patrick’s interview fell through the cracks but he’s an interesting chap and I wanted to get this out. So let’s just secretly agree we’ll pretend this was posted just before the Expo, not afterwards, okay?
Q: In two sentences, highlight your background and [...]

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Nokia N95 Cell Phone Lost: Can You Help?

Erin (@QueenOfSpain) informs us that her pet gizmo, her Nokia N95 cell phone, was lost at the TechSet party at BARE during Blogworld Expo. Hopefully it wasn’t someone with light fingers but rather a simple moment of confusion followed by someone staring at this orphaned phone, wondering what to do with it.
One way or the [...]

Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008 Now Available Online

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  • Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by User ImageRick

BlogWorld attendees were first to see this data courtesy of Technorati’s CEO Richard Jalichandra who opened the 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo with the highlights of this report. Today Technorati has released part 1 of 4 of the complete report.  Three more segments will be released this week.
My biggest take away from this report?
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