Jake volunteered to speak at the Community Next event and, through the “Community Choice” (i.e. vote from the people) was given one of the coveted speaking spots. He’ll be speaking alongside Guy Kawasaki, Tara Hunt, Ted Rheingold, and more community brains.

Here’s the skinny on the event:

Community Next – Feb. 10
Stanford University (California)
More info: communitynext.com

Jake will be speaking on the topic of “Community Ecology” – the idea that there is a balance that must be maintained when working with fan groups, and sharing a few techniques about the best way to find and maintain that balance.

If you’re in town, give Jake a shout. He’ll buy the beer (just make sure to let him know after the tab comes).

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.