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This morning, I had the privilege of presenting to the CEO/ head of the company where I work. The presentation was all about my new team: who we are, what we will be doing, how we will measure our success, all the usual fun. Thanks to a lot of mentoring from my boss and a lot of practice time prior to the presentation, I was fully prepared and the presentation went well. During the course of the conversation, we got to talking about the goal of our new community. He made an analogy which struck me...
What a month November is turning out to be. All kinds of good things happening in my life, all at the same time. PodCampAZ What a weekend!!! Over 500 people came together to network, learn, win prizes, eat, drink, be merry, etc. My sessions weren't as full as I would have liked (10 to 20 in each), but those that were there were very willing to talk about the topics at hand. Other than session time, I spent the days running around getting the prizes sorted. Unlike last year's epic fail on the prize...
Are you coming to PodCampAZ this weekend? By now, you know that it is a two day event. You may even know that I am speaking twice. But this last update is going to give you a few more things you may not yet know... Door Prizes Among this year's door prizes are some Target gift cards, copies of Office and Vista, some blogging software, and... I know I am missing something... OH YEAH - SnagIt 9 and Camtasia Studio! Yes - loyal readers, you could win a copy of either SnagIt or Camtasia. TechSmith is...
Are you coming to PodCampAZ? If you read this blog with any regularity, you know it is one of the events closest to my heart. It happens in less than two weeks. I am speaking (twice). Bruce will be in the same place as last year, showing off the great things TechSmith products can do for you. But, there is still something missing from the event: YOU! We need to know if you are coming. We need to know if you can sponsor us. We need to know if you can help with prizes. Yeah - you got it - we need YOU....
Poverty is a big issue today in the blog-o-sphere. We in America are trained to not let the problems show. A close friend or neighbor could be living beneath the poverty line, and you would never know it. For Blog Action Day, I wanted to share a personal story with all of you about what health insurance can cost. For my husband and I it almost cost us everything. For many years, my husband and I ran our own business. For most of that time, that meant carrying our own insurance policy. When we started...
Are you in Arizona? If so, I would love it if you would join me at Gangplank for Wednesday's hacknight. I have been meaning to get to hacknight for many weeks and now I have to go - no backing out for Kathy. Why? Because Wednesday from noon to 9 pm, I will be sitting at Gangplank doing usability testing on the allvoices site. I am hoping to get a bunch of people to sit with me (one at a time) and let me know what they think of the site. We are in the middle of a re-design - what a great time for...
Sorry to have neglected the blog lately. A big change occured in my life and I have been happily pursuing it. That change: I am now the community guru for allvoices.com. They are citizen journalism at its best. Your news, your views, your videos. The things that are important to you, both on a hyperlocal scale and on an international scale. We look for your contributions on what is news and what matters to you. My job is to grow the contributing community, grow the visibility of the site, and get...
What are you doing November 1 and 2, 2008? I know what I am doing: PodCampAZ! If you have been following my writing for very long, you know that I was a member of the organizing committee for last year's PodCampAZ. I volunteered, I helped, I presented, I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off. I even won a Frys Electronics gift card! This year, I will again be there presenting, learning, and helping. I am hoping you will come too! Why come? This is going to be a great event. Over 50 speakers...
Is your company looking for a good community manager or social media geek? I might just be who you need.
Just a quick post to share a cool site with you. If you are on Plurk, you should check out Plurkerati.com. It's the site for tracking plurkers. It has a feed of the most recent plurks and responses (nice), as well as stats and rankings for a variety of things....
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