Celebrating 20 Years of LinkedIn Thought Leadership: Your Guide to Standing Out Navigating LinkedIn to build your personal brand, grow your network, or establish thought leadership can feel like a daunting task. If you’re wondering how to make your voice heard in today’s crowded digital space, you’re not alone—I’ve been there. Twenty years ago, in…
In 2007 I wrote a post called “Top 10 Ways to Quickly Becoming a Recognized Subject Matter Expert on LinkedIn®.” It won me a free trip to the first BlogWorld, mentions around the web and was featured in books including “Sticks & Stones: How Digital Reputations are Built Over Time and Lost in a Click”…
BlogWorld [now known as NMX] and I go way, way back. All the way to the beginning in 2007 when I wrote a post about becoming an expert on LinkedIn that won me a pass and a hotel room. Only lacking airfare, I flew out and began a fascination with a new group of folks…
Wow! What an honor to be featured as one of 15 Fascinating Faces in the December issue of Glancer Magazine! Although it’s great to be recognized personally, what I really love is that my selection represents social media in Chicago and the world. I’m all about spreading this type of evangelism. Spreading the word to…
Thanks for stopping by! This post is one in a #SMWReporter series covering #SMWBerlin. Thanks to Nokia for covering travel and expenses as well as providing a Nokla Lumia 1020. Disclosure: http;//cmp.ly/6/RC5QuG. Hope you enjoy this update written on Wednesday, September 25. We’re halfway through SMW Berlin and the week is flying by. All week…
This post is one in a series of BlogHer13 session recaps. Did you also cover BlogHer13? Where can we find your posts? Hearing Guy Kawasaki keynote was a BlogHer13 highlight for me. Have your read his book APE? At BlogHer09, I learned that this blog had been selected to be on Guy’s new site Alltop…
During his NMX keynote, Scott Monty mentioned a stat I found intriguing. So I tweeted: 67% of millennials believe it’s their responsibility to provide brand feedback #fordnmx #nmx After I tweeted the stat and many people retweeted it, I researched where the number came from. Turns out it, and a whole mix of other meaningful numbers, come…
Whenever this question comes up, no one wants to, directly, answer it. The question is: how much does it cost to sponsor a blogger? The answer is: [I think] it depends on what the brand is willing to pay. It depends on what the blogger is willing to ask for. And, it depends on what…
Hard to believe, but October is SMC Chicago’s third anniversary. Three years, 30 meetings, thousands of attendees – not to mention hundreds of slices of Ramon DeLeon’s pizza later, here’s a look back at our first event and an invitation to join us October 19. Thanks to everyone who’s ever attended, tweeted or watched one…
It’s that time of year: when people in Elvis, Angry Birds, and other popular Halloween costumes show up. In just about two weeks, Halloween ghosts and goblins start ringing doorbells. Let me ask a personal question: How do you treat at Halloween? As you’re getting ready for Halloween and the last two months of 2011…
When Illinois Institute of Technology’s School of Applied Technology, invited me to attend a cloud computing workshop, I was curious. My business is on the smaller side. I don’t have an IT department that manages systems, but many of our clients do. So, it’s important for me to be aware of IT challenges that my…
I can’t stop talking about it – the ocean, the spa, the oysters, the lobster, the views, the restaurants, the boardwalk, the lighthouse, the cooking school, the paparazzi. It is Atlantic City. Disclosure http://cmp.ly/3 – and thanks – to Spirit Airlines and Caesar’s Entertainment for the #ACGetaway girlfriends weekend away with Duong Sheahan and…
Ready to spring out of Chicago? Looking for travel or PR ideas? Welcome aboard! Let’s take off with lessons I took away from a recent blogger press tour to Atlantic City. Disclosure: Thanks to Spirit Air, Caesar’s Entertainment and DKC for transportation, lodging and entertainment. Watch for more entertaining coverage. Let’s get there first…
TODAY (Thursday, January 20th) is the last day to save 50% on tickets to Blogging Success Summit 2011–the online conference for business bloggers brought to you by BlogWorld. Disclosure: all links in this post are affiliate links, which means that marketers receive a commission in exchange for promoting a product. What can 23 experienced marketers…
Hey, where did you go this year? Before 2010 closes out – and that time is fast approaching – why not capture your personal 2010 review. Today I’m sharing my highlights: some accomplishments, a postcard and even a few wrong turns.
What a treat to see Mari at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas! Mari Smith and I are both contributing authors in the book “Success Secrets of the Social Media Marketing Superstars.” Mari is a true social media leader and it’s always an honor for me to attend her sessions as well as talk to her…
Convergence of Media and the Future of Unscripted Drama on the Web Sitting in on a Brian Solis BlogWorld keynote is always a conference highlight. At BWE10, Brian interviewed Mark Burnett, a TV and film producer whose IMDB page reads like a most-watched program list. Watching Mark’s clips was entertaining; you’ll see a few of…
Over the weekend I got to pose with celebrities – not the real pro bloggers and social media marketing celebrities I’ll see at BlogWorld Expo in about 10 days, but images of the people who got the very same education I did and then rose to fame. That’s me with Dick Van Dyke, actor and…
Today is Talk Life A Pirate Day. At this time in 2008, I was in Las Vegas at BlogWorld at where else? – a pirate party. This year you can purchase a pirate iPad theme. And, check out these new stills from Pirates of the Carribean 4 with Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. Or, get…
It’s finally here! August 24 is the official book launch for Success Secrets of the Social Media Marketing Superstars. With over 20 authors, including me –
10.08.10 UPDATE Breaking News – use this code to save 15% Register now for BlogWorld and save 15% on Thursday, Weekend or Full Access Passes. Looking for a way to save on your 2010 BlogWorld and New Media Expo registration? There’s a link at the bottom of this post. Depending on when you get here,…
Thanks so much to Mari Smith for interviewing me for a teleseminar for the International Social Media Club Association. Because lots of people out there want to know about LinkedIn, I offered to answer the questions that came up in the forum. Today I’m sharing them with you, too. Special thanks goes out to Lyn-Dee…
“That was a great post. I can tell you spent lots of time on it.” – recent comment Well, not as much time as you think and I have Yubby to thank for that. Back at BlogWorld in Las Vegas, I met Vincent from Yubby [and Amsterdam!] as he and Daniel Honigman were exchanging contact…
By the end of the year we’re going to talk about lists, not followers. @scobleizer via @wireprworks At BlogWorld Expo, I found this greeting on my twitter home page: New! Lists. A great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts. (BETA) Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of…
The opening keynote sets the conference theme. Kudos to BlogWorld New Media Expo for selecting Laura Fitton, aka @pistachio, to open the conference. Lucky for you – and for me, I took notes. But first, my @pistachio connection. In spring 2008, Laura was live-tweeting a conference in Boston. I was following her. She mentioned the…
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