I love blogging and the magic of social media and all of that; however, sometimes it is cool just to sit down with someone that you have been corresponding over the Internet and have a real, live lunch. I was in Austin this week to moderate a focus group for a client, and I had the chance to sit down with Connie Reece for lunch at one of my favorite places in Austin, 1886 Café & Bakery in the Driskill Hotel. Connie is a fairly new blogger who has taken read more...

The conversation died ... Originally uploaded by Laura Bell. Social media platforms, like this blog, are only as good as the relationships that one builds through them, both with an audience and with other bloggers, podcasters, etc. In other words, it doesn't work if no one shows up to the "conversation." Last night I participated in a two-hour roundtable on Blog Talk Radio that included Jim Kukral from read more...

Today I will be a panelist for a free teleseminar about the Nuts and Blogbolts of social media tools; however, I think that the magic in a teleseminar is all in the people who call in. And that means you. I hope to talk with you tonight!

Nut's and BlogBolts - A Conversation on Social Media Tools

Monday, January 29th
5 PM PT / 6 PM MT / 7 PM CT / 8 PM EST

A two-hour roundtable discussion about the strategies and tools of social media with Jim Kukral from ReveNews, Shawn Collins from Affiliate Summit, Scott Baradell read more...

Okay, so some more viral video from YouTube and Gizmodo in the same genre of the Comcast guy sleeping on the job. But this time, it is a venerable AT&T; employee stealing oranges, in an official truck, with an official logo. I think it is time for service companies, telcomm and others that perform service in homes, to add these two videos to their read more...

impossible Originally uploaded by Orrin. So, how does a high-profile company, say Microsoft, get factual errors changed on Wikipedia? Well, the barriers are high, and getting more daunting every day. According to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, in a CNN article today: Wales said read more...