Chris Brogan is on a Roll

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Social Media rock star, Chris Brogan, is on a roll with his blog posts these days.

Yesterday he posted links to ten posts representing his Best Advice About Social Media.

Then today he followed it up with his Best Advice About Blogging.

If you aren’t familiar with Chris’ blog, you should definately check it out. Subsribe to his RSS feed.

Chris Brogan has his finger on the pulse of the social media world. And one of the things I like most about Chris is that he doesn’t have a huge ego about it, either.

He is very open about what he knows. And he tends to ask as many (or even more) questions than he answers.

I had the opportunity to spend some time with both Chris Brogan (and Chris Garrett) at SOBCon this past spring. They are two of the most genuine folks around.

And I made sure we got a photo of the three of us, well, it seemed like the thing to do at the time.

Sure it was a Chris thing. Maybe you wouldn’t understand.

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Tags: Social Media, Chris Brogan, Chris Garrett

Down to Business at SOBCon08

Gorgeous and I spent this past weekend at SOBCon in Chicago. It was a tremendous weekend for the both of us.

This years event kept some of the best parts of SOBCon07 and yet was quite different in at least one key element, that of focus. Last year SOBCon was all about community with a little bit of marketing thrown in.

All About Business

This time around SOBCon was all about business. Sure there were several bloggers in the room whose focus was not on making money with their blogs. But having just made the break from corporate life to the entrepreneur world this year, Gorgeous and I were definately focused on business while we were in Chicago.

And we weren’t disappointed.

Still Made Connections

Just like last year we made new connections which will likely produce valuable exchanges to help mutually propel our various businesses forward.

It is interesting to me that the people I made strongest connection with were not the same folks that I set out to get to know. Because I set out with that intentionality I still met the people and started the relationships that may potentially be catalysts for growth in my business. Those connections were just with unexpected people is all. Read more

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Tags: Blogging, Anita Bruzzese, Brian Clark, Chris Brogan, Chris Garrett, David Bullock, SOBCon08, Wendy Piersall

Top 9 Reasons I’m Not Following You on Twitter

I’ve been using Twitter for just over a year now. My first Twitter day started on March 9th 2007. I quickly found that Twitter is addictive but I have stuck with it just the same.

Over the past year I’ve tweeted a little over 4100 times and accumulated 500+ followers. These aren’t overly impressive numbers especially when compared with someone like Robert Scoble, for example.

But how do you decide which Twitter accounts you choose to follow?

Chris Garrett asked his readers this question. The poll results are telling. Be interesting and people will follow you.

Chris is encouraging his readers to follow him on Twitter right now with a series of give aways that are only available to his Twitter follower list. But I noticed that even though he’s actively recruiting more Twitter followers he only reciprocates on a percentage of those following him. (He’s also got this snazzy “follow me on Twitter” badge on the side bar of his blog.) Read more

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Tags: Social Media, Chris Garrett, Twitter