(Brad Burnham, Fred Wilson, Charlie O’Donnell)Â
After wrapping up the social media sessions at Ketchum and grabbing a burger with Amit Gupta at the Shake Shack, I walked over to the offices of Union Square Ventures and talked with Fred Wilson, Brad Burnham and Charlie O’Donnell. We talked about what blogging and social media have done for their deal flow and visibility, about some of their portfolio companies like Feedburner and delicious, and about what the new investment environment is like for the types of companies they are interested in: technology-enabled services firms.
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Surely the Syndicate NYC highlight for me was getting to meet & talk with David Weinberger, our foremost philosopher of connection. David is the sharp, funny blogger at the Journal of Hyperlinked Organization (JOHO to you & me), author of Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, and, oh yeah, he helped write this little thing called the Cluetrain Manifesto. We talked about his new project, Everything Is Miscellaneous, and a bit about how Cluetrain has fared over the years.
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Super stoked to be speaking at WebVisions 2006 in Portland this July. Not only are there going to be rockstar speakers I’m looking forward to talking with (like our pal Dan Cederholm, MeFi man Matt Haughey, Matt Mullenweg, Derek Powazek, Andy Baio, Tom Vander Wal and, many, many more), but it’s in Portland, a place I love. (Early bird admission is super cheap — only $125 through June 30.)
Kit Seeborg has put together a great panel: Let Go, Jump In: Community Marketing Strategies for Empowered Customers. The lineup: me, Kit, Dan Saffer of Adaptive Path, and Jeremiah Owyang, social media evangelist from Hitachi. Awesome.
Learn more about WebVisions 2006. Check out the show blog.
I did a WebEx and a lunch seminar at Ketchum the other day, which was great. Lots of good questions and good dialogue that I think will continue. Here are links to some of the what we discussed:
Blogging Buzz/Confusion
The New Wisdom of the Web — Newsweek
BusinessWeek story — “Blogs Will Change Your Business”
Forbes paranoia — “Attack of the Blogs”
Blogging Delivered
Blogging Not Exactly Delivered
The Situation: Attention Scarcity
Long Tail blog on Mainstream Media Meltdown
Brand Hijack manifesto
Most recent Sifry alert on the state of the blogosphere
Pay Attention to:
Wikipedia
MySpace
YouTube
About RSS
Sphere
IceRocket
Delicious
Digg
tech.memeorandum
flickr
Odeo
iTunes podcast support
Business Blogging
Design Public
Robert Scoble
Jonathan Schwartz
English Cut
Stormhoek blog sampling
Essential Reading
Cluetrain Manifesto
Naked Conversations (check out the blog, too)
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined
Useful Marketing Stuff
MicroPersuasion
GapingVoid
BrandAutopsy
What’s Your Brand Mantra?
Church of the Customer
Media Orchard
New PR Wiki
Marketing Begins at Home
HorsePigCow
Like It Matters
Download the slides. (~6 MB pdf)
My flickr set from the talks.
I’m giving a few talks on social media at Ketchum today, thanks to an invite from my pal Jon Paul Buchmeyer. An hour long Web Ex, then a lunch chat with the brand group there. I believe David Parmet will be joining me as well.
We talked with Chris Messina about Barcamp, Teh Space and other building blocks for independents. He's an open source rabble rouser that we always learn a lot from & are inspired by.
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Technorati Tags: barcamp, brian oberkirch, chris+messina, coworking, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
(Photo by Tantek)
A great interview with Chris Messina a bit ago about a lot of things. (Can you just talk with Chris about one thing? We think not.) Here he talks about microformats — a standardized approach to structuring metadata making it easier for everyone to remix & reuse stuff to further the emerging info ecosystem. It's the first in what we hope is a series with lots of folks talking about microformats. Tantek? Kevin? Ryan? We'd also like to interview other developers, designers, business guru types or anyone interested in taking up the cause of microformats.
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Technorati Tags: brian oberkirch, chris messina, microformats, podcast, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
Rebecca Blood gave a great keynote at the New Communications Forum in Palo Alto in early March. We talked with her later that day about the evolution of blogging and how connection is really the key ingredient to all this.
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Technorati Tags: brian oberkirch, new+communications+forum, rebecca+blood, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
We talked with Anil Dash to get his POV on the good, bad & ugly of corporate blogging. As usual, he's charming & insightful. Can you tell we're Anil fans? We even have the t shirt.
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Technorati Tags: anil dash, blog comments, blogs, brian oberkirch, corporate+blogging, movabletype, sixapart, typepad, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
A few of the folks from the Palo Alto PR 2.0 discussion got together for another chat this week. I talked with Mike Manuel, Josh Hallett and David Parmet about a post Mike did a few weeks ago on the social media services gap. We focus on the unique challenges agencies face when working in social media, and what we as workers on the frontlines can do to improve.
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Technorati Tags: brian oberkirch, david parmet, josh hallett, mike+manuel, podcast, pr2.0, public+relations, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
We chatted with Josh Hallett & Jeremy Harrington about how designing blogs and highly interactive Web applications is a bit different from traditional interactive design challenges. I think we're just beginning to wrap our heads around designing for data (check out Tom Coates as a great guide) so we'll keep these types of podcasts going.
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Technorati Tags: blogs, brian oberkirch, design, hyku, jeremy+harrington, josh hallett, podcast, tom+coates, web 2.0, web+design, web+development, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
We talked with Jim & Charles of Jambo before the last Refresh Dallas meeting. Check out our first vlog (look out, Irina) — at the Weblogs Worknotes page, download the file directly (~19MB .mov) or grab the whole feed.
Technorati Tags: brian oberkirch, charles+ribaudo, jambo, jim+young, refreshdallas, vlog, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
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