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Trained Messengers at the Wharton Business Tech Conference

I spent the day this past Friday speaking and participating in the Wharton Business Technology Conference in Philadelphia where I moderated a panel all about the future of marketing and interactive media. For those of you who have been following my last few events, you know that many of the more recent ones have been … Read more

Inside the 5 Badges of the Conference Caste System

At every conference or tradeshow, you get a badge.  I have a box full of them on my desk, an increasing number of them with the title of "Speaker" affixed beneath my name.  I recently had a conversation with some colleagues about the importance of being a speaker at an event.  Often, the most important … Read more

CES Extreme Event: Notes From the Vomit Comet

One of the big themes for Intel’s effort at CES this year is the extreme.  Extreme computing and extreme gaming.  There is a big truck in the Central Plaza where gamers can check out new superfast systems, play games, and win a chance to go on a Zero G flight operated by a company called … Read more

Live Blog Post from Intel WiMax Shuttle

Blogging live from the WiMax shuttle and embedding a YouTube video below.  Will be posting more about this later today: Update – See badge for Flickr Images from today: www.flickr.com This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from Intel CES 2008. Make your own badge here.

Blogger Social 2008 and the Art of Personalized Outreach

The first thing I should say is that I was planning to write about Blogger Social 2008 anyway.  You’ll see why I started with that disclaimer in a moment … Just about everyone in any kind of communications role has probably reach out to at least one blogger at some point to share something of … Read more

Creating Talkability – Ad:Tech Panel Today

I am on my way to New York today for a morning panel discussion about how brands can "create talkability."  This is a topic I have been spending a lot of time on recently, because it brings together a lot of diverging ideas and is central to what most brands are trying to do.  In … Read more

RSS Ray Radio Show Today: An Inside Look At PNI

I give a good ten minute presentation.  In fact, if you think about the usual types of speaking outside of keynotes, ten minutes is really all you get.  This is not just for public speaking, but also in front of clients.  Talking for a long time rarely pays off.  On conference panels, the people rated … Read more

A Lineup of All Stars at New New Internet in DC

This Thursday I have the chance to moderate a panel titled "Engaging your client community via blogs and social media" at the New New Internet event right here in the Washington DC area.  Aside from being one of the few local events that I have the chance to speak at after my whirlwind of events … Read more

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