I’m finally feeling like I’m back in the game. I still have this annoying itch in my throat but that could just as well be allergies as cold. This is one of the joys of New England. Another – on Tuesday, even though there was still snow in the parking lot I saw my first cloud of black flies.
Just in case you stopped by looking for real content, I’ve got a 7 minute chat on telemarketing over at the best marketing podcast – Marketing Over Coffee.
What a drag it has been this last week. I’m still feeling run down but I’ve been getting better every day. I caught 4 innings of the Sox game over at Fenway last night with the lovely Carin thanks to a ticket hookup from E-413.
On the book front: Email Marketing by the Numbers arrived today, I’ve got 4 blog post-sized entries about email marketing. To celebrate – off to bed before 9 again….
As my cold begins to fade away I’m able to catch up on work. I’ve spent a good chunk of the day here at a coffee shop in Williamstown, MA. The weather has been perfect after what feels like 37 straight months of rain, cold and darkness. Life in a college town is always a bit brighter than the rest of the world. The tennis team was up early at the cafe and as I fired up my iTunes I was overrun with shared music libraries. And this being Williamstown I not only can sample some of my unknown benefactor Kathleen’s music, which is more than a decade ahead of me, better yet there’s the Richard P. Feynman lectures… Just when I thought I had run out of cool stuff to listen to.
On the marketing front I’ve picked up a bunch of cool content and uses for RSS that will roll out over the next couple of weeks. But that’s all for now, I’m going back out into the sunshine. -J
One other thing – my Pro-Live blogging post vanished for a day, I noticed that I had a trackback address wrong and when I corrected it I think I switched it to “Private”, much to my chagrin. It’s back, but alas, no comment, no controversy.
Sorry guys but I am still coughing up a lung. I am going to bed now, and although there’s no new sparkling prose you can check out the latest edition of Marketing Over Coffee – The Best Marketing Podcast for 16 minutes of talk about MySpace Bots, Black Hat Marketing and the influence of Web 2.0 on Politics.
I’ll have some new video tomorrow too! Where’s my shot glass full of nyquil?
There’s been some chatter today and yesterday about live blogging at conferences. I jumped on with this post from Allan Jenkins.
If you’re giving a presentation and you can’t make it compelling enough for people to pay attention, the last thing you should be doing is complaining about the attendees. Or better yet – the audience is your customer and you’d rather stifle their word of mouth until you finish your sermon on the mount? Obviously I’m an irritating snot.
The trend I’ve seen has tables and outlet strips in the front rows so the laptops can grind away. If you want to see the future go to any college campus or conference like Gnomedex to see laptops up and running at every station.
Live blogging is a great substitute for keeping readers in the loop who couldn’t go to the event.
I make no bones about doing it for points, reporters are always looking for a scoop, bloggers who want to be seen as cutting edge would be no different.
A good presenter has to keep the majority of the audience on track, if that audience is from 25-60 years old there’s going to be differing degrees of multi-tasking going on. If you’re pitching to the median there’s always going to be some people with free bandwidth who are not going to miss the point of the show.
Why is it so hard to resist blogging about blogging?
p.s. – 1992 called and they want their Moleskine back…
Or at least that’s what I feel like with a cold beating me down…. But that can’t stop the latest M Show!
I’ve managed to come down with a cold with one day to go to a long weekend. Not much writing in me today but that’s alright because Seth Godin’s latest post directed me to this incredible article about context.
The weekend covered 4 big events – Podcamp NYC had over 1,300 registrants, most of them crazy hustlers, and a lot of fun.
The M Show comes to you mobile for the first time in almost a year!
And most importantly you can now get Garrett’s Cheese Popcorn somewhere other than Chicago – namely Madison Square Garden, home of the greatest battles of the 20th Century! I hope your weekend was as good…
Item #4 deserves it’s own post!
Rolling early this morning at Podcamp NYC. Over 1,300 registered for the show, so it should be quite the scene. Chia-Lin Simmons is presenting on podcasting in the wireless space. Some astonishing stats on ringtones – zero to $7 Billion in less than 5 years.
Some vendors to check out on the mobile front: Voiceindigo, tmobilcast (which I couldn’t find in google?), pod2mob, munduradio
Yesterday’s presentation at NTC was a great time. Hopefully my evangelist show will help a few more people get up and creating their own content.
I had a fantastic meal last night at P. Diddy’s restaurant “Justin’s” but the Martini has made business a little tough this morning…
I’m starting to think that it is. I’m starting to drown in usernames and passwords. About half of my frequent flyer accounts aren’t working right and I have no idea how to fix them. When RFID for adults comes around I’m going to be first in line. Imagine going to the airport and just walking through the security arch. I saw a 6 year old girl get her chocolate milk taken away from her at security this morning. I don’t feel any safer.
On our last flight security saw all my podcasting crap in my bag and the proceeded to grab my wife’s bag by mistake and search it. Obviously I’m the grumpy traveler, but enjoying DC and looking forward to both talking about podcasting at the NTEN conference tomorrow and Podcamp NYC with it’s insane list of over 1,100 attendees.