First, you'll probably ask, "what the heck is SOBCon?" Stands for Successful Outstanding Blog Conference, the brainchild of Liz Strauss who publishes the wildly successful Successful- Blog.com. The actual name of the conference is Biz School for Bloggers and this year marked the third iteration.
My intention was to get quicky tips from many of the successful bloggers in attendance, but alas, I fell short. You'll see I only managed 3 tips and two of them were in a dark bar at Morton's Steak House so Stephen P Smith and Michelle Vandepas are hard to see. Hope you'll cut me some slack on these. It was a full 3 days, lots of talking, learning, photos, videos so getting interviews felt like a challenge for me. I'm just not assertive enough to break into conversations, though others have no trouble with that!
Following the video are links to notes from the presentation I did with Chris Cree as well as notes and slide shows to many of the other presentations. Good stuff here. And, if you're interested in expanding your thinking around blogging and social media, I recommend you get on the mailing list to stay up to date on developments for next years program.
Now, here are links to various presentations and write ups from Biz School for Bloggers:
The Business and The Blog (conversation between me and Chris Cree - notes courtesy of Deb Brown)
Integrating Social Media into the Larger Mix (Geoff Livingston)
SOBCon Synthesis: The Rise of the Digiloggers (Terry Starbucker, co-founder of SOBCon)
Notes from David Bullock's session (courtesy of Kristen King)
You Are Your Best Business Card (presentation slides from The Image Studios)
The SOBCon photo stream on Flickr (contributions from lots of bloggers)
P.S. I put the movie together with the software that comes with the Flip Video. It was super easy to connect three separate videos!
Thanks Denise for including me - What a hoot. It was fun to connect with you in Mortons! - the food was good and the company was great!
Posted by: Michelle Vandepas | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 at 05:10 PM
Wow! I totally forgot about that part of our conversation, Denise!
It was such fun debriefing with you. I loved your insights into where I'm going and how to tightem up my presentation. I've thinking of them sense we spoke and really enthusiastic about the ideas I'm having. You ROCK!!
Posted by: Liz Strauss | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 at 06:24 PM
Nice round up and videos, Denise! Love Liz's line: The best promotion is to promote other people. My number one tip? Get out there and meet other bloggers - like you! - in person.
@wiredprworks
Posted by: Barbara Rozgonyi | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 at 06:51 PM
thank you for tips.... helpful tips for me
Posted by: gestational woman | Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 01:03 AM
Here's a vlog (video blog) from Ramsey Mohsen that nicely captures the energy of SOBCon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytk_XdLzyBQ
Posted by: Denise Wakeman | Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 07:29 AM
This is a great overview, Denise. Thanks for the link to my writeup.
It was nice to see you again!
Cheers,
Kristen
Posted by: Kristen King | Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 09:11 AM
Barbara, love your SOBCon 09 round up. Here's the link for others:
http://barbararozgonyi-wiredprworks.com/2009/05/09/sobcon09-biz-school-for-bloggers-prelude-postlude-futuredude/
Posted by: Denise Wakeman | Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 07:00 AM
Millions of bloggers are writing on a daily basis and many of them are writing on similar topics. Because of the sheer number of blogs fighting for the same eyeballs, it is becoming harder to become popular, so the question is how do you make your blog stand out from the rest?
1.Content
2.Usability
3.Visibility
4.Uniqueness
5.Readers
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Posted by: milly666 | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 03:12 AM
Nice to sharing blogging tips to us, thanks.
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