“This one is going to really interesting to watch . . . hmmmm . . . . ”

When I made the appointment we had a choice, but I picked the doctor in the practice we like best. Well, we like them all, but we like this one best because he kind of wanders off and philosophizes while he’s with us. Conversations become streams from his consciousness and wander off into places like where we’ll be in a year or two …

Notes from the BlogHer09 keynote, lightly edited. Please feel free to comment and add your insights.

Moderator: Lisa Stone, co-founder of BlogHer

Panelists: Tina Brown, The Daily Beast, Donna Byrd, The Root and Ilene Chaiken, The L Word

Tina

Print is a locked in medium. She loves online because she can find new quickly find new voices

Donna

Asked to talk about the arrest of www.theroot.com’s editor for attempting to break into his own home after coming home from a trip from China and finding he …

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Okay, I’ll admit up front that this might sound a bit self serving, and it is because it’s about me. But, I’m only showing you what can happen so that you can see where you might be in 10 months if you start a social media optimization plan today.

I didn’t even know I was tracking results until yesterday when I opened a file marked “to do” that I wrote back in May 2008. It contained a pretty good social …

On March 6 and 7, I attended Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secrets Reunion  – check out my album on flickr. I didn’t tweet much or live blog at all. Why? Alex is a fantastic speaker and one who deserves complete attention. So, I went back to taking notes the old-fashioned way: in a spiral notebook. It’s more liberating and I got much more out of the content.

Phenomenal is the only word that describes the networking.

Want to follow the Teleseminar Secrets …

I’m getting ready to redesign this blog and I’m asking for your help. After writing over 550 blog posts, it’s safe to say I like what I’m doing.

But, do my readers? How can I make visiting this blog a better experience for them?

Click Here to take a quick blog redesign survey

Now that I’m ready to upgrade, I made this list of priorities. What’s missing? What changes would you like to see?

Blog Redesign Priorities

Always on –find a …

It’s Friday. I just crossed the 2,100 mark update on twitter and decided to share this ecourse I wrote to go out to my MTN newsletter subscribers. Now, my newsletter wears the Wired PR Works brand. Sending out a sequenced system like this works with email providers like Aweber – affiliate link.

Hope you find it useful. Because the report is seven pages long, I’m only posting the outline and the day one sequence here. To read the entire course, …

Another site, another ranking system for top marketing blogs- they’re all the same, right? Well, no.

Junta42’s top marketing blog list is different than most out there. It’s based on content. Want to know what makes great content? Read Junta42’s Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing.

Here’s why and here’s what I like about this ranking system, borrowed from their press release:

The Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs stood out for their commitment to covering the issues at the heart of content …

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 How to Sell Direct Advertising on Your Blog with Steve Hall, David Peralty, Wendy Piersall, Dave Taylor and Lynn Truong.

You’ll find all of my BlogWorld08 twoverage [tweet +coverage] here.

Thanks to those of you who asked me to share these updates.

Reader’s Guide: Each line represents a live update made on …