(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’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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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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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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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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