Beyond Blogging 2006

Interview with Andrew Noyes

2:07 pm

This is a podcast interview I did with Andrew Noyes, the Associate Managing Editor for Washington Internet Daily and Associate Editor for Communications Daily. Andrew wrote a nice bit of coverage on some of the important highlights from the Beyond Blogging 2006 event last Friday. We wanted to go ‘beyond’ the reporting he did and get some more of his perspective on the subject. He is obviously another one of the bright people from DC who ‘gets it’.

We talked about several of the big pitcure topics discussed at the event as well as the personal/professional Blog debate and how Blogging and Journalism can co-exist. Unlike several of the mainstream media people I have met over the last year, he sees the advent of Blogging as a positive occurence, as it is a great source for story leads. This is definitely a podcast you want to hear…

Notes: The show was recorded using Gizmo Project from my iMac in San Francisco to the conference room telephone at Warren Communications News in DC. It is 17:59 in length and has pretty decent sound quality given the VOIP to POTS connectivity and the use of iSight as my microphone. If you don’t get Washington Internet Daily yet, you should take advantage of this free trial offer they have to see why it is a must read for yourself.

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Interview with Greg Gershman - Beyond Blogging 2006

1:33 pm

Prior to the start of the Beyond Blogging 2006 event in Washington DC on May 19, I sat down with Greg Gershman of BlogDigger to talk about what Beyond Blogging means to him and what he was looking to get out of the event. We spoke briefly about the remix culture and Creative Commons licensing - they have a Creative Commons search feature which is now in beta . Finally we spoke for a few minuntes about BlogDigger, his Baltimore based Blog search engine and the maturation of Blogging.

One of the great things about the technology market today is that there can be many companies offering somewhat similar services to different types of niches. The defintion of success is no longer IPO (particularly with Sarbanes Oxley). Companies are developing their own niche markets and learning to operate efficiently, perhaps even proftiably! They can build a solid business that provides for a nice life without all the haslles of being big and going public by working the Long Tail to the fullest of its potential.

I don’t know how big BlogDigger will ultimately become, but I can tell you that Greg Gershman is uber smart and has the potential for greatness with whatever he does. So don’t count him or any of the other competitors out in this nascent market.

Note: The interview is 8:28 in length.

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Mitch Arnowitz Interview @ Beyond Blogging 2006 Event

4:31 pm

After the first panel session at the Beyond Blogging 2006 Thought Leaders Breakfast, I took advantage of the short break to sit down with Mitch Arnowitz of Tuvel Communications. Mitch and I spoke about the current state of the communications business and some of the high points of the morning sessions. Mitch is really doing a great job down in the trenches and has a real understanding of what Blogging and Community mean to his clients. The work he did with Netpreneur was instrumental in the development of many great companies and an exponentially greater number of careers (like mine).

Notes: The interview is 7:46 in length due to time constraints, we literally finished just as they were starting the second panel. My apologies to Mitch and all of you for not getting this posted earlier. I am finally back at my desk in San Francisco and working frantically to catch up on many open items - thankfully my data on the dead laptop was ok, but the laptop needs some work. Photos and more Blog posts to come shortly…

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Post Event Review with Fleishman Hillard

5:52 pm

This afternoon, with thoughts of the Beyond Blogging 2006 Symposium experience sitll fresh in our minds, I sat down with David Wickenden, Dan Horowitz, Coleman Hutchins and Peter Klaus to discuss the event, the takeaways, the impressions and the next steps.

Since I woke up this morning at 545am EST (which is usually when I go to bed out in San Francisco) I am in need of sleep before writing much more. The good news is that since this resonated with everyone so strongly, that the conversation will continue into the forseeable future. More to share on Monday on the event itself, photos to come over the weekend and the Webcast of the entire event will be posted by the middle of next week.

Thanks to everyone for coming out, and to my friends at Fleishman Hillard for this great opportunity to be a part of the discussion.

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Word of Mouth Podcast with Todd Tweedy

9:31 pm

As mentioned in a prior post today, one of our panelists, Todd Tweedy from Boldmouth has just released a Research Report entitled Perceptions, Practices & Ethics In Word-of-Mouth Marketing. It contains a great wealth of insights on the subject matter that should be useful to all communications professionals. In this podcast interview which was conducted using a free voice over Internet service from GizmoProject, I dig a bit deeper beyond the numbers into the practical aspects of WOM (word of mouth) as they relate to the communications industry. This is a really good conversation that should be of real benefit.

Please note that despite what I say on the podcast, the total time was only fiftenn minutes.

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Corporate Blogging Insights, A Podcast

7:36 pm

On Thursday May 4, 2006 I sat down with Earthlink Blogger Dave Coustan to talk about his experiences as a corporate Blogger. This follows up on the Blog post entitled “Reflections on Blogging for Someone Else.” There are some really interesting insights from his experience working at Earthlink as well as some more simple details on certain aspects of the work. You can reach Dave through his Earthling Blog.