I wish I was at the conference in Seattle with all of you, but alas, I am not. Please include me in your thoughts and hug a few people as you link about!
See you soon. Take care. Be Safe.
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.
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I wish I was at the conference in Seattle with all of you, but alas, I am not. Please include me in your thoughts and hug a few people as you link about!
See you soon. Take care. Be Safe.
Jennifer Jones at Podtech took community questions and posted them. Jeremiah put it up today. Nice!
There were interesting visitors that stopped by to read my MyBlogLog post! I thought you might like to learn about some of them.
First I wanted to report that this Techmeme only event had an average visitor page view of 3.23 yesterday.
Several months back, I had a major Digg event (Chicago Comcasted) had an average visitor page view of 2.35.
The MyBlogLog post had significantly lower page views overall, but had many other fresh posts written and indication of higher engagement. While you could draw other assumptions here, I’d rather wait to see some other data.
Below is a random sampling of some of the interesting readers that visited the site during the event:
Takuya Misawa, a Japanese Social Entrepreneur
Blog Potato, a site that is trying to build the world’s largest blogroll (feel free to sign up!)
Chris at 10e20, who envisioned a possible version of the rebranding back in January.
Cameron Barrett, someone who has had a blog dating back to 1997 at the urging of Dave Winer.
Stewart Mader, writer of Using Wiki in Education, which is a neat resource.
Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal, who whipped up a great post of his own on MyBlogLog (Always good to see you Loren!)
Roybn Tippins, who originally shared the MyBlogLog info with 100 people.
Ian Kennedy, who writes a blog called Flashpoint – he apparently shares my financial services background from his days at Lehman Brothers and currently works for Yahoo!
Chad Dickerson, who runs the Yahoo! Developer Network seems like a naturally networking and fun guy!
Mark Fulton, who among other things is an authority on domain name investments.
Jacob Share, owner of Jobmob.
Eric Berlin, the Online Media Cultist.
Patrick Schaber, The Lonely Marketer
Dan a “slacker” from Australia who authors The Wrong Advices.
The folks at the Weblog Tools Collection.
Brie from A New Wave of Thinking.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope to get to know you all on a deeper level as time goes by. Please feel free to subscribe to my RSS feed if you have not already done so. Thanks! See you soon.
At SOBcon yesterday in Chicago, Robyn Tippins, who was recently hired as the MyBlogLog community manager, spoke about several major upcoming changes with MyBlogLog.
There are several changes in the works:
1) The biggest news is that there will be a rebranding of MyBlogLog. The exact timing and new brand were not revealed. (YahooBlogLog or MyYahooLog? Time will tell.)
2) A complete site redesign is on the way!
3) A new “Widget 2.0” is coming with some hover features.
4) Yahoo! is hard at work to remove the offensive photos so that MyBlogLog would be palatable to more conservative business blogs.
5) Some sort of method to turn off your presence for some types of sites will be added.
As they do not have these changes locked in, Robyn would love your comments and feedback. To not overwhelm her, please drop your comments below.
Analysis: The rebranding is not a surprise move. MyBloglog is really only known amongst the first adoptors and blogosphere and getting the Yahoo! name is front of more people in a soft way is a good move. Yahoo! seems committed to making these changes, while listening to suggestions and making the product more dynamic. Looks like the best is yet to come from MyBlogLog.
Successful and Outstanding Bloggers will gather in Chicago this weekend!
Get your list of attendee links for your own blog to link out. It is the list on the site with a few blog links corrected. If you notice other errors, please comment below and I’ll correct the link list when I have time.
SOBcon2007 Chicago Attendees:
Sandra Renshaw
Brad Shorr
Timothy Johnson
Tammy Lenski
Muhammad Saleem
Lorelle VanFossen
David Dalka – Motivational Business Keynote Speaker
Todd And
John Yedinak
Joe Hauckes
Tim Draayer
Jeremy Geelan
Carolyn Manning
Sheila Scarborough
Steve Farber
Dawud Miracle
Doug Mitchell
Jeff O’Hara
Dave Schoof
Jamy Shiels
Adam Steen
Hannah Steen
Chris Thilk
Barry Zweibel
Eric Bingen
Ellen Moore
Cord Silverstein
Jean-Patrick Smith
James Walton
Sharan Tash
Vernon Lun
Tony Lee
Scott Desgrosseilliers
Mark Murrell
Kammie Kobyleski
Easton Ellsworth
Mark Goodyear
Ann Michael
Kent Blumberg
Ashley Cecil
Robert Hruzek
Sabu N G
Mazur Krystyna
Lisa Gates
Franke James
Chris Brown
Troy Worman
Karen Putz
Jesse Petersen
Andy Brudtkuhl
Lucia Mancuso
Peter Flaschner
Derrick Sorles
Mike Rohde
Thomas Clifford
Rajesh Srivastava
Claire Celsi
Jason Alba
Cristiana Passinato
Sean R.
Alex Shalman
Cristiana Passinato
Brad Spirrison
Ari Garber
Dr. Rob Wolcott
Cheryll Cruz
Sharon Scherer
Jonathan Phillips
Jason Wade
Jill Pullen
Doug Bulleit
Wendy Kinney
Chelsea Vincent
Ayush Agarwal
Paul Mangalik
Premchand Kallan
Xochi Kaplan
Michael Snell
Ella Wilson
James Bergstrom
Raj Majumder
Keith Levenson
SOBcon2007 Business Keynote Speakers:
Andy Sernovitz
Phil Gerbyshak
Liz Strauss
David Armano
Mike Sansone
>Drew McLellan
Mike Wagner
Terry Starbucker<
Rodney Rumford
Ben Yoskovitz
Chris Cree
Robyn Tippins
Diego Orjuela
Vernon Lun
Wendy Piersall
Barry Schwartz has set up his blog to post the links directly to Twitter. Very neat. He also made a nice how to post on the subject. Barry is such a posting machine!
I’ll wait to understand his learnings and impact before trying it myself. I look forward to seeing his results on the impact after a few weeks.