Warner Brothers, Bravo and Hearst opened the day with a HybridMedia keynote. To read more, visit the BlogHer08 live conference posts.

See what I had to say on twitter about BlogHer, including a live tweet stream from the monetization panel.

In the Home and Garden breakout session, I heard about the water usage restrictions in California, how Houston doesn’t recycle, what’s going on with sustainability and what secret resources people use to blog better. 

Meeting up with Chicago  bloggers introduced me …

Are you influential or popular?

For Galinda, a Wicked witch it’s all about being popular . . .

When I see depressing creatures With unprepossessing features I remind them on their own behalf To think of celebrated heads of state Or specially great communicators Did they have brains or knowledge? Don’t make me laugh! They were popular! Please – …

Do you Digg your own stuff? Stumble over your posts? Tweet your latest?

How far can and do you go to let people know what’s hot where you are?

Because my company specializes in promoting our clients and their work, promoting blog posts is on my mind. How can bloggers maximize their efforts?

Here’s how my own promotions stack up . . .

Twitter: post a link and a headline for almost every post

LinkedIn: thinking of adding a link to major posts …

There’s a sign I always look forward to seeing simply because it’s always, always, always outdated.

It’s kind of a game to guess how many months will have gone by since the event happened. We get our answer as soon as we alert the stale signage.

Driving through this suburb, you’d think that time really does stand still. Thousands upon thousands of passengers pass by this sign every day and still nothing changes.

That’s how I feel about my blog right now. I’m literally hestitating to comment on …

What’s it like for an outsider to peer into our window?

Last week when I visited the Art Institute of Chicago’s Edward Hopper exhibit, I was captivated by Hopper’s artistic interpretation of daily life from an outsider’s perspective.

When I read Liz Strauss’ post about 10 ways to make your blog compelling, I kept thinking about the other side of the screen. That is, you, who are looking in at what I’m doing – or what I should say is, what …

Monday means Marketing Sherpa. Today’s Marketing Sherpa PR Interview features Peter Shankman and his new site/service called “If I Can Help a Reporter Out, I Will.” The founder of The Geek Factory Inc., Peter also wrote the book, “Can we do that? Outrageous PR Stunts That Work and Why Your Company Needs Them.”

Matchmaking PR

The idea behind “If I Can Help Out a Reporter, I Will” is to match in a hurry, always-on-deadline journalists to a list of media-hungry experts …

For those of you who missed the PR P-R-I-M-E-R call this morning, here’s a replay. Listen as Jenny Hamby, The Seminar Marketing Pro, interviews me about how to use the power of publicity to promote your blog and your business.

You’ll learn:

- why you must think like a publisher

- how to report on events

- when to inform your audience in relevant ways

- what to do to media-tize your message

- where to go to learn from your experience

- why repetition is critical to your …

For our call today, we’re taking you behind the scenes. This is the same information my co-host, Jenny Hamby, The Seminar Marketing Pro, gets. Because this is a casual call, I’m asking Jenny to walk us through the PR P-R-I-M-E-R and then open the call for questions and answers.

Introductions

Tagged as a communications pioneer exploring new frontiers, Barbara Rozgonyi works with people who want to become subject matter experts and companies that want to own their niche. Barbara blogs at Wired …

Want to write for someone else’s blog? Being a guest blogger is a novel way to expand your reach and stretch your talent. When Liz Strauss asked me to write a guest post for her I said, “I’m astounded.” Liz is a magnetic writer whose words seem to surround you on and off screen, moving you to think, marvel and act.

Until I started blogging, most of my writing was for clients to their markets/media contacts/communities in a voice that reflected their sound, not …