Isabel Walcott Hilborn

It's a Community, Stupid!

Read my lips: Terrific post by Stuart Henshall.  Conference organizers need to learn how to leverage conference bloggers, and presenters can contribute.  PR firms should be the enablers.  Stuart tells us why and how.

My favorite quote out of many great thoughts here:

"You are managing a community, not a conference".  Conference organizers need to get this.

(via the FastForward Blog)

I'm blogging at MarketHum.com

I periodically blog over at MarketHum, the website for the social media marketing consultancy where I am a partner.  If you're interested in my posts here, you may want to check out some of the things I have talked about over there: How Facebook Ranks Stories, Content Management - Not So Easy After All, Your Customer Has Been Conditioned Not to Trust You, Remember those Mom and Pop Shops?, and more.

A Dig at Blogs

So there's this new group blog, Truthdig, that has its own editor-in-chief. This person is Robert Scheer, who describes his blog as anti-blog.  The Internet is a "food fight" that needs him to bring order and trust.   He says his job is "turning strong writers to dig leaders, but controlling the direction of the digs."

As if there weren't enough ego in the blogosphere already?

I'm all for group blogs, edited blogs, editors-in-chief, and control -- it's a free country, people can do what they want.  But to take a dig at other blogs while you blog?  That's just bad taste.  Shame on you, Scheer.  Thirty years of journalism didn't teach you much about respect.

When Experience Pays Off

Sean says Jason Calacanis's company got bought by AOL.  It's so nice to see some of the original NYC "new media" pioneers getting recognized by the establishment.  Now the question is, will the acquisition have a lifting or a dragging effect on the participating companies?

Hi Russ!

Russ Nelson is begging me to link to his blog.