I will be live blogging which is something I have never done before. In the past I have taken hand written notes and then later tried to get the blog post written. This allowed me to think during the presentations. But often I did not find time to get some of the posts written. So my posts may be a bit “rougher”, but the content should be there. Lets see how it goes.
I am at Graphing Social Patterns conference that is put on by O’reilly.
I have moved my blog to a new server and am now using the wordpress multi user version. It is running many blogs form employees at familylink.com. Anyway I am told that we can now keep out the comment spammers and so my new posts will have comments enabled. I invite you to comment and participate on the blog. Add your thoughts!
This week at am at sunny Las Vegas attending the Webmaster World / Pubcon conference. In the past this conference has has some of the best content/classes on internet marketing and web development. I will be posting on each session I attend.
Yesterday they opened with a keynote address from Craig Newmark the founder of Craigslist.com. I have to say I had high expectations for this keynote. I hate to say I was very disapointed! Craig is currently doing Customer Support at craigslist and even reports to the director of CS. He was very clear about his limitations that he as not a good manager or a good programmer. He talked about how craigslist was started and their history. BORING! The basic story was that he lucked into it. He just built a small service for his friends (that he acted like he didn’t even really like) and grew it into craigslist. He was clear that they made many mistakes and that their only advantage was they where first to market. There was no strategy behind it.
Then he went into a very strange rant about Gutenberg being the first blogger and that Martin Luther Kink Jr. was also a blogger. Somehow trying to convey that the technologies we consider new aren’t. It was out there and hard to follow.
So if you read my blog you will also see that I was also not happy with the Keynote address at SES this fall in San Jose. This one was even worse. I think that a keynote speaker needs to be just that a “GOOD SPEAKER”! They need to attend one of Guy Kawasaki‘s speeches and learn what a good speaker sounds like.
Sorry but I have had to disable all comments on my blog. I was getting 40-50 comment spams a day. I tried several pluging like captia stuff but it just didn’t seem to work. If you have a comment please post it on your own blog and link back to me. If you don’t have a blog then send your comments to me in an email and I will add it to the blog post itself. I hate spammers!
Here are some more notes from Paul’s class on blogging with my comments added in.
1. It increases your business web presence and enhances your personal brand.
2. You get to vote for Web pages, which affects Google search engine rankings.
3. It forces you to keep learning and stay sharp and have something intelligent to say in response to reading something. You have to synthesize and analyze. I’m sure it has increased my writing ability. (OK my writting skills are still not great. But getting better)
4. You get to know other bloggers that are influential.
5. You get valuable responses from people smarter than you when they comment on something you’ve blogged about.
6. You can make new connections, both business-oriented and other. It makes it easy for old friends and colleagues to find you. I’m number one for “brad pace”!
7. Some people actually make money from blogging.
Today I attended the class “A Crash Course in Internet Marketing” by my boss Paul Allen. It was the first class of a 12 week course. The main reason I wanted to attend was learn more about blogging. I have never heard Paul’s blogging pitch before. I found blogging more difficult that I thought it would be. What to write about, how to make it interesting, and still seem somewhat professional. Paul had some great insight and suggestions for blogging that I found very useful. If I get the lesson notes from the class today I will post the specifics. But one of the main reasons he listed for blogging was to simply force yourself to write down your ideas and think things out. Paul gave me some good ideas and helped me want to energize my blog. I need to post more often. Simple as that. Whether people actually read anything here does not realy matter. My goal is to post at least 3 times a week. I have a few things in the works already.
One thing I just noticed is that it is good to have many categories to place your posts in. And make sure you have good keywords in your category names. But I was searching for “internet subscription models” in google and what is the 3rd spot? PaulAllen.net! It just so happens that Paul has a category with this exact set of keywords. Paul does a great job of assigning each posting to multiple categories. Great SEO!
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