Paul Gillin, author of The New Influencers and a speaker at BlogWorld Expo, on how the buzz at the event reminds him of the PC industry in the mid-1980s:

"I hope we don't lose the contagious enthusiasm [about blogs] we have now... "

- Paul Gillin

Paul Gillin, author of The New Influencers and a speaker at BlogWorld Expo, on how the buzz at the event reminds him of the PC industry in the mid-1980s:

"I hope we don't lose the contagious enthusiasm [about blogs] we have now... "

- Paul Gillin

Social media guru Jeremiah Owyang, whom I've known since his Hitachi Data Systems days, is now a senior analyst for Forrester Research. I bumped into him at the BlogWorld Expo party at the Hard Rock Club in Las Vegas. This is a short clip but you can hear the enthusiasm in his voice, along with the buzz at the party.

"This is amazing. The [blogging] industry is really starting to come together," he said.

Here's a longer video interview with

Social media guru Jeremiah Owyang, whom I've known since his Hitachi Data Systems days, is now a senior analyst for Forrester Research. I bumped into him at the BlogWorld Expo party at the Hard Rock Club in Las Vegas. This is a short clip but you can hear the enthusiasm in his voice, along with the buzz at the party.

"This is amazing. The [blogging] industry is really starting to come together," he said.

Here's a longer video interview with Jeremiah (with lots more detail about what he's up to now) at Forrester's October 2007 Consumer Forum.

P.S. Jeremiah mentions 1,500 people in the video. There may have been that many registered for BlogWorld but I don't think that many people showed up.

Nothing warms an author's heart more than having a fan approach with a dozen tabs sticking out of your book, so I was thrilled to meet Prof. Bill Barnett, faculty chair of Computer Information Systems at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Bill was attending BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas and sought me out for an autograph and a quick chat. He told me that after reading The Corporate Blogging Book he set up a blog for departmental news and as

Nothing warms an author's heart more than having a fan approach with a dozen tabs sticking out of your book, so I was thrilled to meet Prof. Bill Barnett, faculty chair of Computer Information Systems at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Bill was attending BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas and sought me out for an autograph and a quick chat. He told me that after reading The Corporate Blogging Book he set up a blog for departmental news and as a recruiting tool. He also requires students to blog executive summaries of reading assignments and to comment on each other's blogs.

Cool idea. Using blogs in academics - and to teach writing - is a huge interest of mine.

How to Write a Great Corporate Blog

Kudos to the Personal Branding Global Telesummit marking the 10th anniversary of the publication of Tom Peters' now iconic article: The Brand Called You. I led a session on How to Write a Great Business Blog and was one of dozens of speakers who donated their time. The Washington Post covered the event in a short article: Your Brandwidth. Reporter Vickie Elmer quoted me as follows:

"If you can write a

How to Write a Great Corporate Blog

Kudos to the Personal Branding Global Telesummit marking the 10th anniversary of the publication of Tom Peters' now iconic article: The Brand Called You. I led a session on How to Write a Great Business Blog and was one of dozens of speakers who donated their time. The Washington Post covered the event in a short article: Your Brandwidth. Reporter Vickie Elmer quoted me as follows:

"If you can write a consistently interesting and informative blog, you brand yourself as someone worth listening to, worth doing business with, worth hiring," [Debbie Weil] said.

Weil, author of The Corporate Blogging Book, said her publisher contacted her after reading her blog. Blogs help folks "get found." She said, "It's a way to control your digital identity." That's a growing…

I've been working with Sarah Lewis of Blogging Expertise for about two years. She did the custom design for this blog and also designed my main site at debbieweil.com. But until today, when I bumped into Sarah in the hall at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, we'd never met face-to-face. Only in Vegas, as they say...

Listen below as I ask Sarah what's new in blog design.

I've been working with Sarah Lewis of Blogging Expertise for about two years. She did the custom design for this blog and also designed my main site at debbieweil.com. But until today, when I bumped into Sarah in the hall at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, we'd never met face-to-face. Only in Vegas, as they say...

Listen below as I ask Sarah what's new in blog design.

Flying out to Las Vegas from D.C. yesterday (to speak at BlogWorld Expo) I found myself sitting next to Whitney Matheson, USA Today’s (hugely popular) pop culture blogger. Whitney’s Pop Candy, if you’re not familiar with it, is the paper’s most popular blog.

She covers the "indie" side of things which means her blog  "unwraps pop culture’s hip and hidden treasures," according to the tagline. OK, so this blog is waaay cooler than People