I was at Jeremy Wright’s conference on blogs in Bucharest – Monday 3rd of July. So, I’m a little late to post a review, so what.
Perhaps “Blogging Revolution” was a bit too much for a title. Cut the slack, here’s my bulleted list:
- what blogging is and is not
- why blogging is important:
- email is dead
- listening
- real voice
- market research
- conversation
- 5 keys to success:
- listen first
- blog with a purpose
- blog with passion
- keep listening
- be “real”
- listening!
- strategy!
- passion!
- always respond to comments
- positive experiences turn readers into evangelists
- negative experiences may do the same (case studies)
- evangelist ladder:
- saboteur
- reluctant
- customer
- evangelist
- unique/multiple voice
- parables:
- english cut – level the playground
- zip.ca – be aware
- union square venture – create awareness
- constantly look yourself up on technorati
- create resources for your customers
- numerous types of blogs
- how to treat negative customers – speak up – contact the person!
- IT’S THE PEOPLE, STUPID!
- microsoft blogging policy: “don’t be stupid”
- top 3 list:
- traffic
- interaction
- trust
- take the story behind the headline
- be an expert
- keep traffic growing
- watch those stats!
- pubSub.com
- opinmind.com
- intelliseek.com
- measures of success.com
- google yourself on a daily basis
- develop the addiction of blogging
- do it natural, be relaxed!
- link to MVPs, do top10 lists
- sprinkle some SEO
- pingomatic.com
Doesn’t make to much sense, does it? Well, this is all that I could decrypt from my handwriting
Get his list at http://www.ensight.org/uploads/ROMEXPO.zip
I wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
We shortly met in Romania at your conference.
I want to ask for the slides, a copy of your free book chapter and everything else you give out for free :) We all love freebies…
My personal opinion is that your presentation was great, you were a little nervous ( I saw your hands shaking ), but everything went ok.
However, I expected some more statistics and case studies. Or advanced walkthroughs instead of beginner tutorials. I loved the marketing research talk, people would kill for numbers; perhaps you might go more in-depth with data mining in your future talks, see how the public reacts. Anyone can read the Analytics Dashboard, few people actually Understand what they mean…
Now, I don’t want to ask for a refund or anything :) I had a great time, but if I were you, I would publish my speech’ table of contents in advance.
Best regards,
Mihai Gheza
Jeremy replied
Mihai,
Thanks!
I just posted everything to ensight.org that you should need! Good luck in Romania! :D
“Good luck in Romania! :D” ? What does that mean? Jeremy, what does that mean?
Jeremy Wright said
That means I see huge potential for Romania as a country, and bloggers specifically, and wanted to wish you all the best as you (individually) and you (as a community) explore that and do some really interesting things.
Sorry that wasn’t clear, but I’d only just landed and wanted to get a response off quickly. Feel free to email anytime though ;-)
A.C.T. said
Man, what can it possible mean? The man wishes you a sincere “Good Luck” on the romanian “market”, whatever that is — actually, whatever you choose it to be. I miss the long evenings discussions too.. and yes, you don’t look like a r3tard.
Good Luck in Romania!
Todd
Mihai said
Jeremy, I knew exactly what you meant.
I just wanted to check out if you practice what you teach. And it seems you do answer to bloggers.
You just made me your evangelist :)
Jeremy Wright said
I try and answer. Sometimes it’s hard with many of the blogs being in Romanian (and I haven’t yet found an online translator), but I do try :)
Hope to see you in November Mihai!