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10 Reasons You Should Come To Blog World & New Media Expo

July 8, 2009 · Comments

Jason Falls

Jason Falls

One of, if not the, best conferences for social media types on the planet is Blog World & New Media Expo. Rick Calvert and crew have consistently put on a great show with interesting speakers, engaging topics and ample opportunity to network and cross over your connections into industries you never thought possible. (I know several military bloggers. Who’d a thunk it?)

This year’s event is October 15-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the lineup (to be announced soon) is going to help make the event bigger and better than ever before. Last year, I presented several topics as a speaker at Blog World. This year, I wanted to be more involved — if that’s humanly possible. It is.

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The Social Media Echo Chamber Makes Me Not Want to Listen

February 3, 2009

EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s guest post is from Kevin Palmer, a friend and smart social media strategist with whom I’ve had the pleasure of working. He writes regularly at SocialMediaAnswers.com and has some opinions about the social media world I agree with (and others I don’t). This one, is one I agree with. Enjoy. Then go [...]

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How To Pick The Right Blogs For PR Outreach

January 9, 2009

I gave a talk to the local Blugrass Chapter of PRSA today inspired by my PRSA International session with Heidi Sullivan and Jay Krall from Cision entitled, “Not All Blogs Are Created Equal.” While the PRSA International version was more robust and contained some great insights and information from Heidi and Jay, it was an [...]

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10 Promotional Mistakes Of New Bloggers

December 5, 2008

In preparation for Wednesday’s Social Media Club Chicago speaking engagement, I asked the prospective attendees via the Facebook Event Page Wall if there were any questions they wanted me to prepare to answer at the event. Fausto Fernós was the only real respondent, but he asked a great question:
“What are the ten common mistakes bloggers [...]

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The Beginners Guide To Promoting Your Blog

November 24, 2008

A friend of mine is a very well-read, successful blogger. His personal narratives, short stories and semi-autobiographical fiction normally collect dozens of comments, sometimes well over 100, and spark lots of interesting exchanges between his readers. He’s built his audience steadily, over the course of a couple of years, and by all measures of blogging [...]

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Blog Catalog Launches Nifty New Search Widget

November 11, 2008

It’s easy to get caught up in new sites and technology in the social media space and forget about those that have been around a while. More often than not, those old, trusted friends have continued to innovate and are still developing noteworthy functionality and uses. You just get caught up in the new shiny [...]

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Five Blogs I Read

October 17, 2008

One of the subtle tricks of building good blog traffic is organic link exchange. This is very different from link exchange, which is where two website or blog owners agree in premeditation to add links to one another’s sites. Organic link exchange is where a blogger cites a post or a blog from another with [...]

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New Book On Blogging Pushing Ethical Standards For Bloggers

September 24, 2008

When One Nation Under Blog by David Wallace comes out next month, the national publicity push, catchy marketing gimmicks that pose questions like, “Will bloggers decide our next president?” will probably sell a few copies during election season. With blogging still a relatively new and hot topic to the mainstream and political blogs constantly making [...]

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Kentucky Political Official Proves Government Needs Social Media Counsel

August 15, 2008

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There’s a lot to like about Dick Brown. Especially if you’re a professional communicator. Brown is the Executive Director of Communications and Public Outreach for the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Public Protection Cabinet, the Energy and Environment Cabinet and the Labor Cabinet. He has been in the communications business for 40 years as [...]

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Bridging The Gap Between PR And Media

July 22, 2008

Join me tomorrow afternoon as I moderate the latest in the Vocus Webinar Series with a one-hour session entitled, “The More Things Change; Bridging The Gap Between PR And Media.” The webinar begins at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT and is free to all comers. I’ll moderate a discussion with two outstanding new media journalists [...]

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There Is No Perfect Pitch, Only Perfect Pitches

July 9, 2008

Public relations can stand to learn a lot from Howard Moskowitz. The legendary experimental psychologist, whose research and work is chronicled most excellently by Malcolm Gladwell in a speech at a February 2004 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference, essentially reinvented the consumer product goods category. His revelation essentially concluded that consumers don’t know what they [...]

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