David Dalka attends and reports business events and conferences to discover the future of business where technology, organizations and customer exeperience meet. Also serves as emcee, moderator and motivational business keynote speaker.
Blogging, Blog, Blogger, New Media, Social Media
OK, I finally signed up for Twitter. Please feel free to add me if you’d like.
If you have any tips on how to best utilize Twitter – for networking, recruiting, driving traffic or otherwise – I welcome your contributions to the conversation.
If you are reading this and you either have no idea what Twitter is or you dismiss it, then this post from Rick Klau might be helpful to you in reframing your views.
Rob Murray put up an interview with Derreck O’Connell on searchengineland.com. It was a nice interview but it didn’t get some questions asked that I’d love to know the answers to!
When will Live.com have a blog search engine product offering?
In the main Live.com index, many assert that blogs don’t receive as much weight in index as traditional sites based statistics like Hitwise data. What would you state to them?
What are you doing to limit splogs and made for advertising sites in your index? (Especially since these sites often directly benefit your competitor(s) financially)
There are other questions I have about Live.com, but they are outside the scope of what was discussed here that I wish to clarify right now.
Easton Ellsworth put together a awesome post on this subject. You should check out his thoughts.
The figure comes from Product Manager Darren Strange. If accurate (I’d love to see a complete list), that means that about 6.3% of Microsoft’s workforce now blogs. Interesting to see the numbers continue to grow.
Thanks to cshel for customizing this awesome WordPress 2.1 theme! Bill Slawski also contributed useful ideas. Neil Patel gave me a few tips as well.
Thanks to all of my other friends who contributed feedback. Hopefully this WordPress theme will work through versions 2.1, 2.2, 2.3,2.4,2.5, etc…
I’d like ot thank Julie Eckert, VP of Sales from Heavy.com, for having me as their guest at the event.
The Chicago Marketing Speakers panel consisted of:
Jory Des Jardins – BlogHer
Ed D’Onofrio – Feedburner
Bryce Emo – MySpace
Danielle Wiley – Edelman Interactive
Nick Schmidt – Vlogger and Marketing Analyst, Project Elliott
To me the most fun of the event on user generated content was watching the vivid contrast between Jory Des Jardins and Nick Schmidt, who has an amazingly candid and blunt style. Yet, they were the only pure bloggers on the panel based on what I saw, so they had that in common. Thanks to Dan Conroy from Did-it for sharing time with me as well.
Ben Popken’s blog the Consumerist has had this problem where it is not showing up in Technorati for quite some time.
Ben writes an amazing and passionate blog with outstanding content, much of it contributed by users. Ben was quite helpful to me when my Mom had a recent Comcast problem and got me in touch with the right people to fix the problem. Stated simply, he is a blogger that cares about much more than just himself and truly cares about creating a world where the consumer is treated both fairly and with respect.
We’ve written to Technorati and they’ve in fact added his blog – but Technorati has some programming glitch that keeps dropping his blog out of their index shortly thereafter no matter how many times they add it back. Based on that brief glimpse that Ben and I saw, The Consumerist was on the verge of becoming a Technorati 100 blog. Enough is enough, Technorati needs to fix this permanently as this blog is too good and too popular not to be properly indexed by Technorati.