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BlogPotomac Emcee Shonali Burke Discusses Social Media

This begins an informal series of interviews with the people who are speaking at the Final BlogPotomac (October 23, at the State Theatre, register today!), and what better person to begin with than the emcee? Shonali Burke is the incoming  president of IABC-DC, and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University’s Zanvyl Krieger School of [...]

Truly, The Final BlogPotomac

Thank you to the few parties that have reached out to either help support or co-own BlogPotomac in the future. As many of you know, this autumn’s event is being promoted as the Final BlogPotomac. At the time of announcement, I listed two reasons:
1) A desire to recapture some of my personal life, and [...]

Women Snubbed in Top Ten Speakers List, Industry in General

In a “blog post” listing the top ten social media speakers, The Speakers Group (TSG) listed voices for “your consideration.” Not one of the speakers was a woman, highlighting a much larger social media services industry problem where women are often overlooked for top speaking gigs, and don’t rank as well as men.
Ironically, this [...]

Clarification on “Social Media Is Dead”

Well, I’ve been called arrogant three times privately, anonymously and now publicly because of Thursday’s post on “Why a Final BlogPotomac: Social Media Really is Dead.” There have been public posts, some debating or decrying the discussion, others turning it into a parody.  My feelings about social media innovation still remain the same, but [...]

Why a Final BlogPotomac: Social Media Really Is Dead

With more than 3600 Tweets (3300 day of) and most blog posts written about last Friday’s BlogPotomac singing its praises (here’s one negative review and an unhappy happy hour attendee), many have been asking me why hold a final modified unconference? I cited two reasons, one of which was a desire to recapture some of [...]

Attending to BlogPotomac 2009

For the next few days, I will be absent on the Buzz Bin as I attend to and recover from my unconference, BlogPotomac. Expect to see me return to the Buzz Bin during the middle of next week.
The schedule of events for BlogPotomac has been posted. Check it out! While the event [...]

Introducing the Social Media Rabbi

The Women of BlogPotomac

Ticket Update: Approximately 30% of the 150 paid-for BlogPotomac seats have already been sold since tickets officially went on sale two weeks ago. At the current pace, BlogPotomac (June 12 at the State Theatre in Falls Church) will be sold out by April 1.  Don’t miss out, register today!  Any profits from BlogPotomac 2009 [...]

BlogPotomac: Jen McClure, DC Central Kitchen and Tickets

Jen McClure, executive director of the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), has agreed to keynote the BlogPotomac speakers dinner on June 11.  The speakers dinner is an event to thank the sponsors and speakers for their contributions.  General public attendees can attend as well, and tickets for this value-added event will go on [...]

BlogPotomac 2009 Features Great Minds

It’s a new year, and now more than ever it seems we still need great, affordable events to learn about social media best practices.  BlogPotomac 2009 will be held on the second Friday of June this year (June 12) at the State Theatre again.  Like last year, 2009’s line-up features seven sessions from some of [...]