Are you just starting in your social media marketing efforts, or have you been blogging for months or years?
Either way, you would find quite a bit of value from reading this review of the SOBCon ’07 (Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference) held May 11-12 in Chicago.
Jason Alba has an awesome review of each of the seminar offerings:
- Conference introduction by Terry Starbucker.
- Phil Gerbyshak on Ten Ways to Make it Great. What an infectious smile!
- Liz Strauss on Successful and Outstanding Blogs. You can’t help but just LOVE Liz. Her warm personal style combined with lots of wisdom is so appealing!
- David Armano on conversation by design. What an incredible speaker. You could hear a pin drop in the room!
- Podcasting 101 by Ben Yoskovitz. My takeaway: the blogs are for the readers and if they prefer to listen over read, then we owe it to them to provide audio content too.
- Rodney Rumford on what’s next in video. I like him, he really speaks from the heart.
- Andy Sernovitz, lunchtime speaker on Word of Mouth Marketing. Good stuff and thanks for the book too Andy!
- Iowa “delegates” Mike Sansone, Mike Wagner and Drew McClellan, led the breakout session of what’s working, what’s not, & what’s next that was extremely helpful.
- Chris Cree moderated the panel of some of the conference sponsors where they talked about what’s next and how to use their applications: The Good Blogs, My Blog Log, Evoca.
- Wendy Piersall (aka emom) on blogging outside our comfort zone.
- A live critique of Dawud Miracle’s blog (His blog is in transition from HealthWebDesign and is part website/part blog. Thanks for being the guinea pig, Dawud!).
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Thanks Chris. It was great to finally meet you. Thanks for mentioning the critique. It was actually quite helpful. Watch for changes - sooner and later.
And if you have questions about WordPress, please let me know. I’ll help you in any way I can.
Thanks for providing this great listing of what you learned at SOBCon 2007, Chris. I was unable to attend though I worked to publicize it for my readers. Now I can catch up on a few of the highlights! Thanks so much.
What do you sense was your biggest take-away?
Dawud:
I think I’m going to email you off line about my pros and cons list of switching. Because your site is going thru much of where I think I’ll end up going thru, I think you’re in a unique position to give me some good insights.
I enjoyed meeting you too. You are just like I thought you’d be: friendly, helpful and smart.
Chris
Robyn:
Biggest take away… wow. That is hard.
It really reinforced that this is where the world is going to be in 5 to 10 years.
People might look at us like we have 2 heads when we talk about blogging and our blog buddies, but this is what will be normal in just a few years.
I remember 10-12 years ago in corporate discussing “should” we have a web site. Now that question is laughable.
Chris
Aw shucks Chris, thanks for the nice note. Glad to share a smile and a hug with you. :)