When Alex Blom first told me about Freelance Camp coming to Toronto he planted a seed which germinated in my brain a few days later… I guess it sprouted when I finally navigated my PC browser toward the ‘Suggest a Session’ page on the #flcto website. At that time, I volunteered to share my knowledge about how and why I do what I do when I blog. I thought perhaps I’d explain what I’m trying to accomplish when I create my distinctive looking WordPress sites, along with all of the cookie crumb ‘info kibble’ that I plant in my sidebars. The program is called Pimp Your Blog. My proposal was accepted! So now I’m on the Freelance Camp Toronto 2010 website’s official schedule. I’m slated to present Pimp Your Blog on Sunday 1:30 pm in Track 4. The idea that Alex planted is now bearing fruit in my brain as… Read more »
Posted in: Actually sharing secrets, Canada Blog Friends, Lenzr, Smojoe Events, Toronto, User Submitted Content, workshop
Taged with: Alex Blom, Allan Janssen, Blogs Canada, Canada Blog Friends, Erin Bury, Freelance Camp, Jeff Waldman, Rachel Young, sidebar widgets, SMM, social relevance, storytelling strategy, Toronto, Wayne Lee
On Weds 14 April 2010, Rob Campbell gained thirty new twitter followers @roberrific after I journeyed to Humber College and put on two ninety minute presentations for two groups of eager Public Relations students. My speeches spelled out exactly how Smojoe uses social networks to rank higher for keywords in search engines. There is no deck or paper program for this show, it’s all performed live. I try to make it as entertaining as possible by asking questions and telling funny stories as I project screengrabs and spreadsheets, and visit the URLs of my articles, blogs and discussion forum posts. These Humber PR graduates are web savvy scholars who paid nothing for my presentation, and so they got no sympathy from me as I spewed forth anecdotes and talked too fast – I packed their heads with too much information all at once and deliberately bounced from concept to… Read more »
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Taged with: Alyssa Fraser, Baron Group, Carly-Anne Fairlie, Chris Hamoen, Damned Heels, Deborah Weinstein, DuetPR, Erin Bury, Frank Abrams, Geothermal Installers Blog, Hailey Coleman, HumberPR, Jennifer Love, Jonathan Samahin, Ken Seto, Kunal Gupta, Michael Cayley, Paul Riopelle, Polar Blog, roberrific, Salesways, Sarah Prevette, Smojoe Events, Steve Hamoen, Strategic Objectives, training, WeGoWeGo, zenPeak