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Sep

21

2007

Live and unedited: Geoff Livingston and I announce Washington DC’s premiere Unconference in 2008

Posted in the Category of Social Media and Stuff

Geoff Livingston and I are planning Washington DC's premiere Unconference (more definitions here and here). Naturally, it's called BlogPotomac.

Update: why are we doing this? DC has a large but fragmented community of social media experts, practitioners, entrepreneurs, VCs, etc. We want to pull this community together and learn from each other. Plus, in Geoff's words, "We don’t want to fly

Geoff Livingston and I are planning Washington DC's premiere Unconference (more definitions here and here). Naturally, it's called BlogPotomac.

Update: why are we doing this? DC has a large but fragmented community of social media experts, practitioners, entrepreneurs, VCs, etc. We want to pull this community together and learn from each other. Plus, in Geoff's words, "We don’t want to fly out to Silicon Valley all the time."

Here's our unscripted kick-off at a local Starbucks. We're both Georgetown alums (Geoff is a CCT alum; I'm an IEMBA grad) so we're hoping we can use Georgetown University as a venue. Tentative date: April 2008. Stay tuned!

Anyone have tips on uploading a .mov video file to YouTube??

P.S. The quality above is terrible. Maybe someone can help. I used my new Flip camcorder,…

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Sep

20

2007

Mixing it up with Washington D.C.’s (female) bloggerati

Posted in the Category of In the News

I'm really glad that local blog celeb Geoff Livingston, author of the soon-to-be released Now Is Gone, inspired me to attend last night's kickoff for A Spoonful of Sin. ASOS is a monthly subscription service, founded by Kelly Harman, that delivers "tastings" of decadent desserts by Washington DC's best chefs.

Former White House Executive chef Roland Mesnier was on hand, as were a good number

I'm really glad that local blog celeb Geoff Livingston, author of the soon-to-be released Now Is Gone, inspired me to attend last night's kickoff for A Spoonful of Sin. ASOS is a monthly subscription service, founded by Kelly Harman, that delivers "tastings" of decadent desserts by Washington DC's best chefs.

Former White House Executive chef Roland Mesnier was on hand, as were a good number of local area women executives, some of them bloggers. I had the chance to chat with Qui Diaz and Kaitlyn Wilkins (both work for Ogilvy PR).

The party was held at the very cool Flashpoint Gallery in downtown D.C. Yes, we have a cool downtown. It's informally known as the Seventh Street arts corridor. It's…

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Sep

14

2007

CEO blogger Jonathan Schwartz on the challenge of finding his voice

Posted in the Category of CEO Bloggers

Eileen Yu of ZDNet Asia interviewed Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz at the company's Menlo Park, CA campus recently. Here's a snippet of the Q & A. Schwartz puts his finger on what may be the hardest thing about a corporate blog - finding a voice:

Q: Now that you're blogging as a Fortune 500 CEO, has that changed the thought process you go through as you write?

A: I probably think a

Eileen Yu of ZDNet Asia interviewed Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz at the company's Menlo Park, CA campus recently. Here's a snippet of the Q & A. Schwartz puts his finger on what may be the hardest thing about a corporate blog - finding a voice:

Q: Now that you're blogging as a Fortune 500 CEO, has that changed the thought process you go through as you write?

A: I probably think a lot more carefully now about what I would write. The hardest blog (entry) to write is... the first. You haven't found your voice, you don't really know what the market cares about, you don't really know your own comfort zone.

To me, I feel like I have found a voice that works for me…

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Sep

7

2007

Why Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ open letter about the iPhone isn’t (perhaps) as effective as a blog post

Posted in the Category of CEO Bloggers

UPDATE: I failed to make the distinction below as to *who* would benefit more from Jobs'  non-interactive, non-apology apology letter. Apple, of course. Not users or consumers.

Total control of the user experience (links to David Carr's Media Equation column in the New York Times, Sept. 10, 2007) is part of Apple's overall strategy.

The below was, frankly, an off-the-cuff riff. Not as well

UPDATE: I failed to make the distinction below as to *who* would benefit more from Jobs'  non-interactive, non-apology apology letter. Apple, of course. Not users or consumers.

Total control of the user experience (links to David Carr's Media Equation column in the New York Times, Sept. 10, 2007) is part of Apple's overall strategy.

The below was, frankly, an off-the-cuff riff. Not as well thought out as it should be. But ahhh... such is the reality of blogging. So if you'll forgive my somewhat muddled thinking, here's the original post:

The big news this week is that 1. Apple lowered the price on its new iPhone by US $200 and 2. Steve Jobs is acknowledging the furor from disgruntled early iPhone customers by offering a $100…

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Sep

7

2007

Enough procrastinating… what I (didn’t) do over the summer

Posted in the Category of Global and The Corporate Blogging Book

This seems like the perfect way to get back into blogging. Today's Wall Street Journal has a great article that, I suspect, will resonate with many readers: How I Spent Squandered My Summer Vacation (registration required). One of the things at the top of my list was to learn Chinese (OK, a few phrases) via fluenz (a DVD) and chinesepod (a podcast and online lessons). Confession: I didn't do

This seems like the perfect way to get back into blogging. Today's Wall Street Journal has a great article that, I suspect, will resonate with many readers: How I Spent Squandered My Summer Vacation (registration required). One of the things at the top of my list was to learn Chinese (OK, a few phrases) via fluenz (a DVD) and chinesepod (a podcast and online lessons). Confession: I didn't do it.

But heck, according to the WSJ, neither did comedian Andy Borowitz learn Italian before a planned trip to Italy next month. Instead, he ate pizza several times as a way to "practice Italian."

Onward... I'll land in Beijing on Sunday, Oct. 14th, Chinese phrases memorized... or not.

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