Blog? What blog?

I’m lagging updating my blog. The quilt is as bad as when I do not go to the gym in the morning. (No, I am not being sarcastic.)

So do I have a fantastic, earth shattering, way deep and insightful like Chris Brogan post for you? Nope…

Im just going to share with you all the things I have going on in the next 30 days. Yep, Plugs. Hey you were warned, it was in the blog title! (sorta)

-March 12, 2010 SXSW: I will be speaking with Sarah White on “Using Social Media to Score.. a Job (Obviously)“  Come join us for this core conversation. Very happy to have it covered by Austion360 as one of its panel previews!

-March 13, 2010 SXSW: I was honored to be asked to be on the Community Innovation Summit which is sponsored by PayPal. This panel is the first Community Innovation Summit of leaders of Developer Networks. It is a lively discussion about fostering innovation in online communities.  I will speaking with Dave Mcclure of Founders Fund,  Wayne Sutton (Twine Interactive), Naveed Anwar(PaypalX) and Evans Cohen (FourSquare)

-March 23, 2010 I will be doing a webinar with David Rodniski for Zubernace.  Info on the webinar can be found here

-March 24, 2010 I will be doing a  webinar for AARP with Susan Joyce of job-hunt.org.  You can sign up for it here

So these events plus my normal daily work for my clients at LSF Interactive is keeping me busy. That being said I am always easy to find on Twitter.

Okay now I need to come up with a real blog post..

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So the following comments are my own personal thoughts regarding the 140 The Twitter Conference. They are impartial   and not biased. You may think they could be biased due to the following things, which I will share in list form, as people like lists:

-I was on the “Best Practices: How to be a Twitter God(dess) panel with Tara Hunt and Ijustine.

-LSF Interactive was a Media Sponsor

-There was a press release

-There was a fancy bio about me.

-I well…use Twitter a little..just a little really!

-I got to stand on stage! Here is what it looked like from my point of view:

Okay, so disclaimer is out of the way, now back to the review of the conference.

So instead of me typing up a review about what happened who did what, etc, etc. I thought I would try something different. Ill let the links do the talking…

-Live blogging from #140tc Alex Payne (head of Twitter’s API team)

-The Twitterverse, a map of Twitter tools

-Live blog of the @anamitra keynote at #140tc

-Tara Hunts ” 40 Reasons Why Twitter Rawks”

-Heck here are some more presentation slides

-What I learned at the 140 Twitter Conference

-Pictures..we have pictures

-Mercury News Article

-140tc Search Results

So there you go, seems to have been a pretty cool event. Fingers crossed it happens again next year

If you have any links that I missed, which no doubt I did. Please share them!

P.S. Not sure who to give photo credit to at top. Let me know if it is your photo!

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Yep..its another one.  Hey, it has been about a month since the last one. Just so much to share and too little time to do it.  So you get it all in one nice post! So here is information  and self promotion with links to things I want to share,people to thank  or think you may find of interest. If your not interested, that’s okay, you can always look for my spelling errors and give me a hard time.. I make a lot.

Scared yet?

So away we go…

- Starting  today I am “test driving” the 2009 Ford Flex. I get to use the car until next week. Let it be known, I am so not a car guy. I know nothing about them. What I am is a gadget guy. The built in media center brings me to tears, its amazing. Get this, its all voice activated.  Ill need to take some pics of that and post. Here is a short video and a pic:

-On April 23rd I organized the Peninsula Twitter and Facebook Meetup.  It went really well. There were roughly 115 people who came throughout the night! Here is some video. I will be putting together some sort of event page shortly for future meetups.

-The Community 2.0 Conference is May 11-13, 2009 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Myself,  Connie Bensen and Kellie Parker will be leading an all day workshop called “Getting Started with Community” on May 11.

-The 140 Twitter Conference will take place on May 26th and 27th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, they are bringing together the top gurus in the Twitosphere to discuss all things Twitter, from understanding the business value of Twitter to exploring the what makes a great Twitter app. As LSF Interactive is a media sponsor of this event, where I work, I have a discount code to share.

Discount Code of in140tc for 140 Twitter Conference 2009

- Do not forget that ever week you can listen to the Social Media Club Editorial Board come up with a question of the week for everyone to comment on.

Yes, Im part of the board. (Come on its shameless plugs right?)

-Because this if for a Thesis for Roskilde University and he asked really nice,  I thought I would pass this on. Aleksander Sonder of Copenhagen, Denmark is doing a quick survey regarding the Corporate Use Of Twitter. The data is updated and open to everyone here.

-A big thank you to Techcrunch for putting on  a Star Trek Screening tonight here in Redwood City. They are giving up to 4 tickets per person for $2.00 each with popcorn and a drink! Oh you also get bragging rights to have seen the movie early! So myself and my sons will be there when the doors open!

-As always I update my Twitter Feed with articles/info I think worth passing on and my other random posts if you just cant get enough of me.

Okay, hope I did not miss anything…. Live Long and Prosper! (yes I am a geek.)

Posted under Blog, Off Subject, Peninsula Twitter and Facebook Meet-Up, Shameless Plugs, Social Media, Speaking Engagements, Your Week In Review

I’m a New Media Strategist!! Good enough answer?

Lets just stop right there shall we?

I am very excited to share with you all that I have been hired as the New Media Strategist for<a href=”http://www.lsfinteractive.com/”> LSF Interactive.</a>

So now your saying “Great! Congrats! What the heck is a New Media Strategist?” I am so glad you asked! Well a New Media Strategist provides planning and execution of public relations strategies that will help increase a company’s image, community stature as well as brand awareness.

Yes, that is a mouth full isn’t it?

Lets break it down into its parts. How about a list? People like lists! The areas all be handling and advising on are:

-Blogs

-Social Networking Sites i.e Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk,(always have to work the word Plurk in)

-Podcasts

-Outreach/Advocacy

-Relationship management

-Webcasting/Lifecasting

-Tradeshows/Industry Conferences

-Viral Campaigns

-Public Relations

So there you go. The Cliff Notes version.

This is a repost from my older blog peckpack.com

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