November 12, 2010 13 Comments

My Boston WordPress Meetup Speech

Genesis Logo First off, I was on the tail end of a cold when this was recorded and it shows. Please forgive my voice. Second, this is a speech/interactive talk I gave with the Boston WordPress Meetup group. It’s got a sense of narrative cleverly hidden in my attempt to make it feel like I was winging it. (No, really!) It runs longer than an hour, so get a nice cup of coffee, a piece of pumpkin bread, and catch up on my take on content. (Bookmark it if you haven’t got time. I’ve got a Share This widget below the post).

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  • Martin Thompson

    Cold or no cold. Still on form! :-)

  • http://www.christinegreen.com/ Christine Green

    Chris,
    I watched this last night and was grateful that Kurt shot the vide, as I caught things that I had missed when I heard it in person. I especially appreciated your inside comment: “I think Zen Master Ziggy could have a future in teaching Toyota how not to be catty.” The Zen Master is giving it serious consideration. :-)

    On a more serious note, I got great tips from your talk – i.e. that you don’t bother using tags anymore and the necessity of writing your bio in the third person for search engines. Thanks!

  • http://matthewm.org Matt Medeiros

    Sweet! My buddy Tom went but I had a prior arrangement. I’m in the South Coast MA area and looking to get one going down here at my studio.

    20min from Providence – right near UMASS Dartmouth Campus if anyone is interested!

  • http://www.picturepundit.com Aaron Hockley

    Thanks for sharing your talks like this when possible.

  • http://www.mazakaro.com Rahul @ MazaKaro

    héh , got my coffee and watched , great video and lot of stuff to know , thank you for sharing it aNy way ;)

  • http://www.mazakaro.com Rahul @ MazaKaro

    héh , got my coffee and watched , great video and lot of stuff to know , thank you for sharing it aNy way ;)

  • Anonymous

    More and more I’m liking the audio and video formats. Today, this was like being at the seminar and being able to peel potatoes for dinner at the same time.

    I’m betting the audio and video blogs will soon be competition with TV.

    Phil Donahue was on Oprah yesterday. He talked about how his show took off when he started to involve his audience. In your presentation, you fielded the questions and I’ll bet everyone there felt satisfied you really listened to them. You knew the answers, you didn’t have to have it on a slide–that takes confidence and competence. Good job.

    • http://chrisbrogan.com Chris Brogan

      I try to do the same here, Mary. I think it makes the difference. : )

  • http://www.margieclayman.com Marjorie Clayman

    I have no pumpkin bread. Also, this is going to skew the heck out of your analytics. “People are spending 7.2 hours on your blog site.”

    OK, now going to listen.

  • http://www.margieclayman.com Marjorie Clayman

    Very interesting. The note about what to do when Twitter becomes old hat has been on my mind a lot lately. Came awfully late to that ship, and you just never know when these sites are going to go from first to worst.

    Most on my mind is your well-being though. I don’t like hearing you were in the hospital!

    And finally – I see we need to work on your overall opinion of marketers. Challenge – accepted!

  • Stefanritsch

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    I just thought I share my views on Mike Smith with everybody. We have recently contracted him to do our web-site but unfortunately the deal did not work out. While we have tried to resolve the situation, Mike Smith has not made any efforts to find a solution. He simply stopped replying. While we paid him a lot of money in advance, he did not deliver. The quality of work was very average and his attention to detail questionable (developed business card templates with spelling errors). Overall, we paid him US3,500 to get one logo, a business card and an e-mail signature. When the actual work should have start, Mike stopped responding to our e-mails.

    Thank you .

    Regards,

    Stefan

  • http://www.plusfurnishings.co.uk/soft-furnishings-in-winchester.html Curtains Winchester

    Should have listened and made that cup of coffee. Watched the first 20 minutes and definitely coming back to watch the last 40!

    Hope the sore throat is better!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BD52IYMGOX7VJA3ONC6ETZMZKU James Hopkin

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