BlogWorld and New Media Expo is merging with New Media Expo to become one super huge colossal event next fall in Las Vegas. Will I be there? Yes and you should, too. So, mark your calendar now for October 15-17, 2009.

Blogging and New Media Converge in One Event

Congratulations goes out to BlogWorld New Media Expo founder Rick Calvert and his partners Libby Durfee and Dave Cynkin along with Tim Bourquin, founder of New Media Expo. Although I’ve never been …

Interested in what happened at BlogWorld? During the sessions, I sent out what amounted to a 15 page Word document, which added up to over 300 updates. This post covers the state of the blogosphere address & opening keynote with Chris Alden, Anil Dash and Richard Jalichandra who previewed Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere report. You’ll find all of my BlogWorld08 twoverage [tweet +coverage] here.

Thanks to those of you who asked me to share these updates, including Lynn Terry who writes …

Ted, an audio consultant/aspiring professional chef/home improvement wizard, has a special tool for every job.

Whether he’s laying bamboo flooring, carving holiday roasts or installing the Dinosphere’s sound system, he’s convinced that the job gets done faster, smarter and better with the proper equipment.

In 2008, I’m premiering a Cool Tool feature that gives you ways to improve your productivity. Today’s feature, Microsoft Live Writer, is a Cool Tool that makes you a better blog composer.

Challenge

Blogging platform interface is clunky, limited and …

BlogWord Expo’s Friday opening keynote speaker, Leo Laporte covered the future of new media publishing tools.

This post is dedicated to Robyn Tippens [link with photo of Robyn Tippens presenting Leo Laporte with his Weblog Best Podcast Award] of MyBlogLog, whose enthusiasm for this presentation motivated me to get up, get going and get started early on Friday.

Read Leo Laporte’s BlogWorld recap

Anil Dash of Six Apart introduced Leo La Porte, host of The Tech Guy radio show, as a …

In this session, the moderator guided the discussion among six panelists.

Top takeaways . . .

Good corporate blogs: Southwest, GM and Kodak.

“A press release has no real business in the blog world. It’s about community, ranking, participating. Until you’re engaged at the level, you really have no clue.” Brian Solis

Key Discussion Points

Take time to think before you act, good advice for any PR initiative.

Reach out with relevancy in a relationship.

Don’t leave pitches on Facebook, unless that’s the blogger’s preference.

Find out how …

Speakers

Wendy Piersall, Emomsathome

Matt Colebourne, CoComment

Dave Nalle, BlogCritics

Great session – please share your impressions or thoughts about building an online community.

The tone that Wendy sets in her posts is extremely personal. She stays appropriate and relevant. Because that tone is there, people are respectful. That personal aspect causes them to want to join the conversation more. People are touched emotionally. As much as you can do that. As passionate and personal as you can get, that’s what makes people want to …

Update 11/14/07

Thanks to Liz Strauss for digging up the key/link to her writing tools treasure chest

Stepping in – literally – at the last minute thanks to the suggestion of Wendy Piersall, Liz Strauss gracefully greeted her confused attendees by starting out with, “I’m not Brian Clark.”

Scheduled to lead the session, Brian wasn’t there. But Liz was. In place of a more formal presentation, Liz treated the audience to a behind-the-scenes Succesful Blog tour.

I like this presentation style. It’s much more …

Thanks again to Scott Allen for hosting the LinkedIntelligence Contest – and for awarding me the free registration and hotel at BlogWorld. Rick Calvert, BlogWorld Expo’s creator, donated the prize.

Here’s a quick recap of Scott’s talk.

Small business blogs are intended to support another business; moneytizing your blog tends to be counter productive. Google Ads is not even close to worth it. You want to focus your blog on your business and supporting your business.

The author of “The Virtual Handshake,” Scott …

Notes from BlogWorld’s opening keynote sesstion with Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, founder of Automattic as interviewed by Ed Sussman FAST COMPANY

Notes lightly edited from Barbara Rozgonyi’s notes.

Matt tends to trust what he reads in blogs more than traditional media because it’s closer to the source.